Hamlet and phelia

Brendan Murray English 4A Period 2 William Shakespeare-Hamlet 12-04-00 William Shakespeare painted an ambiguous picture of a character with qualities of psychological disorder, unluckiness and an indecisive nature in the play Hamlet. The young prince Hamlet suffered from severe emotional distress after the death of his father, King Hamlet. His emotions were tortured further when his mother, Gertrude, married his uncle, Claudius, heir to the Danish throne. Throughout the play Hamlet could not sort out …

…given to the subjects of mental stability, love, action and consequences, and the great mystery of death. Hamlet addressed or dealt with each of these issues and in the end unfortunately proved himself wrong in his course of action. Inaction, puzzling over death, and restrained love proved to be Hamlet’s downfall. The lesson taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is that life lessons can only be taught by experience, for each his own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**