Hamlet Themes Essay

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Themes of Hamlet

(Discussion of three themes of the play Hamlet)

The play Hamlet has many ideas of themes within each act of the play, but three come from soliloquies by Hamlet himself! The first about Hamlet wanting to commit suicide but god saying no! Second about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern being sent to spy on Hamlet. Finally, the third theme is about the soliloquy, “ To be or not to be” meaning to live or not to live. Each act goes by these soliloquies by people, family and friends, talking to him so he changes his mind on things and possibly makes the right decision.

“O that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into dew, Or that the everlasting had not fix'd, His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter. O God! God!” …show more content…

And all for nothing.” (Lines 540-544) During the second act Hamlet comes to question many things. By now he has seen the ghost of his deceased father and was told by him what had really happened and how he had passed away. Hamlet was also told to get revenge on the new king, King Hamlet's brother. The theme from this soliloquy is spying. The new king says Hamlet has gone crazy and is losing his mind and so he sends some of Hamlet's old school friends to hang out with him to find out what's up. This is where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern come in and are acting like they have no idea what's going on and all their doing is checking up on how Hamlet is doing with everything going on in his life. Hamet knows exactly what their doing and that's when he switches things around and has his two friends turn around and spy on the king, his new step dad. By the end of this act Hamlet has come up with a plan to make sure the new king did kill his father by hosting a play with scenes that tell the story of what he was told what happened to his father and just sitting back and watching how the new king reacts about

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