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One of the most unique elements of the Hamlet character is that he is so human. Many types of readers can identify with him. Hamlet is imperfect, and he is fretful. Hamlet has human properties, and it is his humanity that I intend to explore. Indeed it is these human qualities and imperfections that make his story so tragic. Another tragic part of the play is the plays irony. Irony is an important tool in the hands of the playwright to achieve both comical and/or dramatic effect. There is usually little reason for a tragedy to be funny, so Shakespeare has used this tool to add more tragedy to the play. I will investigate the nature of this irony. Also, I will investigate the types of conflict that play a major part in the play and the relationships between Hamlet and the two people who have been closest Hamlet cannot share his strong feelings and emotions with his mother or his girlfriend. While his mother is literally sleeping with the enemy, Ophelia has chosen the side of Claudius because of her father, Polonius. It is especially difficult for Hamlet to talk to Ophelia. The only other woman in his life, Gertrude, has betrayed his fat
The only action Hamlet takes is staging the play, which seems more to serve the purpose to establish that Claudius is indeed guilty of his father's murder. Hamlet does not know whether the ghost is telling the truth or not. In the play, there seems to be a constant shift of action, where only one party can act at any time. Although not every one of them might have come to killing Claudius. In the end, when the truth is revealed and everyone's "masks" are removed, death is all that is to be found. The realization he comes to in this soliloquy is that we are afraid to kill ourselves because we do not know what is to be found after death. Hamlet is very aware of the relationship between action and reaction and realizes that he has to proceed very carefully. He also instigates the final action, the poisoning of the blades and the cup; an action that will backfire and cause his own death. Hamlet's father was murdered by Claudius with poison. Hamlet is however, a man of decision. He is particularly interested in the idea that things may seem different from what they really are, just like the people that surround him. Interesting with regard to this is his love of theater. Hamlet is given the chance to avenge ''this foul and most unnatural murder'' when he sees Claudius praying. Then he proceeds to kill the eavesdropping Polonius.
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