Private Passions and Moral Responsibilities: Hamlet
Title: Private Passions and Moral Responsibilities: Hamlet Category:Arts & Humanities / Theater Details: Words: 651 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Private Passions and Moral Responsibilities: Hamlet
Many great works of literature often focus on personal tragedy and ways of overcoming it. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, however, the inability of the main characters to confront their problems properly leads to the destruction of all. The antagonist of the play, Claudius, allows his personal ambition for power to overshadow the will of his conscience.
Hamlet opens at the royal castle of Elsinore where a ghost bearing the visage of the recently deceased King Hamlet is seen walking the halls in battle gear. Later it …showed first 85 words of 651 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 651 total…rejected the notions of morality by attempting to kill his nephew and has sealed his fate in the eyes of God.
Shakespeare's Hamlet pivots on the theme of mastering passionbefore it is too late. Although Claudius confronts his sins committed in search of title and authority, he never takes the steps needed to achieve absolution. Instead, the King opts to use violence to solve his dilemma
which results in both the downfall of his royal family and the turning of his "envenomed"(144) blade upon him.
