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  • Essay / Free Essays on Hamlet: Weak and Pitiful Hamlet - 844

    Weak and Pitiful HamletHamlet goes about his life in circles, never comfortable enough with his current conditions to settle down. The crises forced upon him were never resolved because he could not handle the decisions, leading to a serious downfall in his family's life. One such disappearance began on a terrace of the palace where Hamlet lived, with the sighting of a ghost which foreshadowed trouble in the near future. Hamlet's mental health began to deteriorate when he learned that his father's death was not an accident, but rather a dastardly act committed by the new king of Denmark. “If you ever loved your dear father – Take revenge for his vile and most unnatural murder” [Act I, vl .23-25]. As a mysterious ghost appeared on the terrace, Hamlet learned of the existence of a murderer who would prove his loyalty to his father. As he reflected on the appalling news recently brought to his attention, the control Hamlet had over his actions was called into question. “O wicked, wicked, smiling, damned wicked! My tables come together if I put it down, so we can smile and smile and be a bad guy. At least I am sure that it is perhaps so in Denmark” [Act I, v l. 106-109]. Hamlet's hatred towards his father's murderer led him to recount the tribulations between the murder and aspects of Denmark as a country. As with most conflicts Hamlet faced, his inability to avenge his father's death further deteriorated his life and environment. With countless opportunities overlooked, Hamlet's ability to take action against his father's death is called into question. “Now I might do it, now it’s a prayer, and now I won’t. And so he goes to heaven, And so I am avenged. This would be scanned. A wicked man kills my father, and for this I, his only son, send this same wicked man to heaven. [Act III, iii l. 173-180] Hamlet considered killing Cladius while he prayed for forgiveness, but then backed out when he learned that he would send him to heaven for the loyalty Cladius showed to the Lord. Hamlet once again debates the possibilities offered to him by the ghost he has sworn to avenge. “To be or not to be – that is the question: is it nobler in the spirit to suffer the slings and arrows of scandalous fortune or to take up arms against a sea of ​​troubles and in opposing it put -y end.