Examples Of Challenges In Hamlet

There are many struggles in life for any teenage kid. Then, when you king dad dies and your mother marries your uncle, the struggle seem to multiply. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young boy Hamlet has many struggles that he has to deal with. As Mabillard states, “Hamlet is arguably the greatest dramatic character ever created.” Shakespeare shows this teenage boy going to some of the greatest challenges some people will ever face. The three challenges that Hamlet has to face in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, are that his mom remarried, his dad died ,and his dad told him to get revenge on his murderer.

The first struggle that Hamlet is faced with in his Act I soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is that his mother got remarried to his uncle. Bates says, “The mystery which surrounds the play centres in the character of Hamlet himself.” After the death of King Hamlet, the queen decided to remarry and who ever she should marry would be become King. She married her dead husband’s brother before the old King’s body was even in the ground. Hamlet says in Act I Scene II line 160, “It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” The struggle for Hamlet is that he loves his mother and wants her to be happy, yet he hates his new stepfather and the situation.

Layng states, “In the story of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the characteristics of love and familial acceptance are devastated by constant ideas of greed and evil desire.” Hamlet is distraught and mourning the death of his father. All the while, his new uncle/stepdad King is ruling the kingdom. Hamlet says in Act II Scene II line 558, “And can say nothing - no, not for a king, upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made.” His father’s life was taken from him and he doesn’t know what to