How Is Hamlet A Dynamic Character

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Throughout Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” the main protagonist Prince Hamlet’s journey as a character is most strongly shown through his five soliloquies, with each soliloquy presenting a different obstacle for Hamlet to overcome. Ultimately this results in Hamlet being an extremely dynamic character who changes multiple times throughout the play, whether it be for better or worse. Hamlet’s first soliloquy shows his more extreme emotions, as throughout the soliloquy readers notice the lack of logic in his words, and the loss of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter. However, Hamlet’s fourth soliloquy as arguably the complete opposite of the first, in which Hamlet shows pure logic, and lack of emotion. This results in him overthinking the situation and not taking action, pure logic can be dangerous as it tends to overcomplicate things. In Hamlet's fifth and final soliloquy he finally reaches a good balance of logic and emotion, in which Hamlet makes the decision to kill Claudius the next opportunity he is afforded. Those three soliloquies show how Hamlet evolves as a person, which makes Hamlet a prime example of a dynamic character.

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Hamlet sees the greatness of Prince Fortinbras, and wonders how Fortinbras attacks over minor disputes are even possible while in his situation King Claudius still draws breath after he wrong Hamlet. He thinks through the situation with logic, but drives his thought process with emotion. This is Hamlet's final destination, the play and Hamlet’s journey leads up to this soliloquy and the final scenes with King Claudius, this is the moment when Hamlet changes for his last time, and becomes a man of action. This soliloquy finally inspires Hamlet to take action and he is now completely devoted to killing King Claudius at the next opportunity afforded to

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