Hamlet Analytical Essay

Hamlet play is one of the most important written pieces by Shakespeare during the Middle Ages. It generates a great resonance by the public and critics because of its characters and phrases that cannot be explained by a single psychological theory which confounded its readers for centuries. Throughout the play, the reader finds quotations that can be understood differently each time the reader reread it. The opening line of the play is an example of those quotations; it appears or be understood incorrectly at the beginning but then it becomes more clear that its an indication of the story's plot and that its relevant to the whole play and its essential theme.

To begin, The first line of the play, “Who’s there?” (Hamlet 1. 1. 1). Is a significant

The reader might misunderstand its concept at the beginning but through the first few chapters it changes and begins to be more comprehensible. At the first glance, the quote seems to be merely a question spoken by a guard who can not see. In fact, it is full of incidents and events that are not what they appear to be, the play is meant to be seen not read. Hence, it's a hook to the audience that sets the mood of the play, but the real and the most important significance for the opening line is that it works as a kind of foreshadowing that examines one of the major themes in the story, appearance vs reality. Everyone in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is lying and deceiving others. They tend to have more than one personage, none of them shows his reality. Hamlet who is the primary character in the play does not know what to believe and what not, his dilemma of what is "real," prompt him to make a

When Gertrude tells Hamlet he seems depressed about his father’s death. He responds by, “Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems" (scene 2). His words distinguish the difference between what things seems like and what it actually is, there is a difference between them but one cannot tell if the person is acting or its real. The word "seems" in the quote shows uncertainty that goes back to appearance and reality. He gives an impression to his mother that he is real and not acting like others are doing. Thus, he pretends to be crazy to be able to investigate the accusations that the ghost said against the king without raising any suspicion that he knows the truth about his father's death. But even though he did not mean it, he has become one of them, the hypocrite people. Moreover, Shakespeare in his play is trying to convey a message that each person has a dual personality, maybe he is unaware of it but it should be there because of the fact that the individual show to the world is never the same as what is going on in the soul. He explores his idea through his characters. Not only the murder that is lying but everyone else, they do not have to but it is a habit in humans. The whole play revolves around the idea that humans do not show their reality or truth, but Shakespeare exaggerates to make the theme more obvious to the point