Hamlet Deception Analysis
Smiles that Faded Deception that Killed William Shakespeare utilized acts of unforetold love, treachery, revenge, and deception that helped to develop works that have been highly praised for centuries. In Shakespeare's drama Hamlet, he continues to use these tools to unfold a story that reveals the questionable sanity of the main character, Hamlet. While Hamlet grieves the death of his late father he discovers the true reality behind the mysterious death. The discovery of this unbearable truth leads to lies and untrustworthy relationships between Hamlet to those closest to him: his mother, Ophelia, and Claudius. The deception and the unreliable reality of his newfound situation drives Hamlet to insanity as he tries to differentiate between
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It seemed that Hamlet still had the slightest bit of his sanity that secreted guilt into his soul as he planned to kill Claudius during his prayer to the Lord. Hamlet claimed that he could not go through with his plan because he believed that the spirit of Claudius would automatically go to heaven (III. III. 70). Bloom suggest that although Hamlet physically desires to punish Claudius his conscience did not agree when he wrote,“Hamlet's pale case of thought is precisely what it says it is-that mental activity which counters every option with it’s opposite, every consideration with its contrary; which takes in aspects and calculates consequences; which is still only by and in action, but which makes every choice of action seemingly impossible” (48). Hamlet so deeply wants to fulfill the desire of revenge but his mind unconsciously does not allow him kill Claudius while he still had the tiniest sliver of humanity left in him. But the little smudge of humanity flees from Hamlet when he discovers the true plans that Claudius concocted. He threw himself into an uncontrollable rage. The deception had gone on long enough. Hamlet finally decides to deliver the fate that Claudius deserves as his end nears. Hamlet kills the King but he never receives the feeling of fulfillment. Bloom said that Hamlet must basically die in order to restore peace when saying, “As the overdetermined image of Pyrrhus in the Player’s speech suggest, avenger and victim must finally become one. Hamlet dies, and his death, the necessary end of his tragedy, enables his expressive gesture” (85). In saying this, Bloom suggest that Hamlet must literally die to actually deliver the true vengeance he so desperately wants to give and the rest he wants to
It seemed that Hamlet still had the slightest bit of his sanity that secreted guilt into his soul as he planned to kill Claudius during his prayer to the Lord. Hamlet claimed that he could not go through with his plan because he believed that the spirit of Claudius would automatically go to heaven (III. III. 70). Bloom suggest that although Hamlet physically desires to punish Claudius his conscience did not agree when he wrote,“Hamlet's pale case of thought is precisely what it says it is-that mental activity which counters every option with it’s opposite, every consideration with its contrary; which takes in aspects and calculates consequences; which is still only by and in action, but which makes every choice of action seemingly impossible” (48). Hamlet so deeply wants to fulfill the desire of revenge but his mind unconsciously does not allow him kill Claudius while he still had the tiniest sliver of humanity left in him. But the little smudge of humanity flees from Hamlet when he discovers the true plans that Claudius concocted. He threw himself into an uncontrollable rage. The deception had gone on long enough. Hamlet finally decides to deliver the fate that Claudius deserves as his end nears. Hamlet kills the King but he never receives the feeling of fulfillment. Bloom said that Hamlet must basically die in order to restore peace when saying, “As the overdetermined image of Pyrrhus in the Player’s speech suggest, avenger and victim must finally become one. Hamlet dies, and his death, the necessary end of his tragedy, enables his expressive gesture” (85). In saying this, Bloom suggest that Hamlet must literally die to actually deliver the true vengeance he so desperately wants to give and the rest he wants to