Essay On Truth In Hamlet

When the truth has been absolute then changes it can be challenging to find ways to adapt and accept the change. Hamlet is extremely indecisive, because he spends so much time searching for the truth but never really finds one. This slowly causes a collapse of his moral values and causes his tragic fall. In the beginning of the play Hamlet is considered morally sound. Hamlet becomes enraged that his mother, Gertrude, is getting married to her brother-in-law, Claudius, and only a month after her husband’s death. He expresses this by saying, “My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (Shakespeare, I, ii, lines 356-361). Even though he is angry with Gertrude he still respects her by saying, “I shall in all my best obey you, madam” (Shakespeare, I, ii,323) when she asks him to stay with her instead of going to Wittenberg. As Hamlet begins to have a hard time finding the truth. He sees the ghost

They encounter two grave diggers that had been talking about Ophelia’s alleged suicide. As they were digging her grave, they were unearthing other bones to make room for hers. Hamlet watched them unearth a skull and asked who it was. Once Hamlet found out it was Yorick, His father’s jester, he said, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times.” (Shakespeare, V, i, 3515-3517). Then Hamlet turns to Horatio and begins to question what has happened to Alexander the Great and Caesar’s remains when everyone arrives for Ophelia’s funeral. During the grave yard scene Hamlet realizes that no one really thinks about after you’re dead unless you did something amazing during your