Thursday, January 23, 2014

hamlet

I know that there are many conflicting opinions of Hamlet as a noble character in one of Shakespeare's finest tragedies, and i just want to give my own personal opinion on him.
As a genreally contemplative person myself, i can sympathize with Hamlet. While many say that he is too wishy-washy, indecisive, and dithering, i think that he is simply cautious and meticulous. Let's take Romeo from Romeo and Juliet, for example. Here is a character who is daring and bold, willing to throw away his family for the love of his life, a character who drank poison because he believed his loved one was dead (turns out, she really wasn't- oops). Because of his rash decision-making, he ended up dead along with the love of his life. Hamlet dies in the end, yes, but not until he finishes what he set out to do and killed his scheming uncle. Because of his patience, he was able to fulfill what his fathers ghost requested he do. To me, that doesn't make him indecisive, it makes him smart.

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