Hamlet as a Tragic Hero :: Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

hamlet as a Tragic Hero          William Shakespeare, the great playwright of the English language,wrote a total of 37 plays in his lifetime, all of which usher out be categorized undertragedy, comedy, or history.  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeares most popand greatest tragedy, displays his genius as a playwright, as literary criticsand academic commentators have found an unusual number of themes and literarytechniques present in Hamlet.  Hamlet concerns the murder of the king of Denmarkand the murdered kings sons quest for revenge.  Its main character, Hamlet,possesses a tragic break which obstructs his desire for revenge and ultimatelybrings about his death.  This tragic flaw makes him a tragic hero, a characterwho is destroyed because of a major weakness, as his death at the end couldpossibly have been avoided were it not for his tragic flaw.  Hamlets flaw ofirresolution, the uncertainty on how to act or proceed, is s hown when Hamletsees a play and the passion the actors had, aft(prenominal) Hamlets third soliloquy, inHamlets fourth soliloquy,  and in Hamlets indecisive pastime in avenging hisfathers death.         First, Hamlets flaw of irresolution is shown when he sees a play andthe passion one particular actor had. A group of pseuds has arrived and Hamletarranges a own(prenominal) viewing of The Murder of Gonzago with a small portion of hisown lines inserted.  Hamlet then observes one portion of the play in which oneof the players put on a great display of emotion.  Hamlet, besieged by guilt andself-contempt,  remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion thisplayer showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotional about. Hamlet observed that he himself had all the reason in the world to react withgreat emotion and sorrow, yet he failed to show any that could compare with theact of the player.  Hamlet calls himself a rogue and peasant slave and a dulland muddy-mettled rascal who, like a John-a-dreams, can take no action.Hamlet continues his fiery speech by degrading himself and resoluting to takesome sort of action to revenge his fathers death.      Next, Hamlets flaw of irresolution is shown after his third soliloquy, thefamed To be or not to be lines.  Hamlet directly identifies his own tragicflaw, remarking of his own inability to act. Hamlet, unsure whether or not thehis uncle Claudius was responsible for his fathers murder, schemes to have TheMurder of Gonzago presented to the royal court, with a few minor changes, so its