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An Investigation Into The Ways In Which The Language And Subject Matter Of Hamle
The play ‘Hamlet’ is one of Shakespeare’s most tragic plays. The play consists of different themes. A main theme in the play is how mad the character Hamlet is and how his madness is presented to the audience. Another interesting theme is Hamlet's obsession with death, as Hamlet repeatedly refers to death on several occasions. The theme of the Oedipus complex appears at the beginning of the play where as the revenge tragedy occurs further on in the play, when Hamlet is told by the ghost of his father, that his father was murdered by his uncle. A major theme in the play is madness, as two characters seem to suffer from it; Ophelia and prince Hamlet. Hamlet appears to be mad, because of his father's death and his mother's indecent rushed marriage to his uncle. We do not know however, whether Hamlet is truly mad, as he warns his good friend Horatio that he will pretend to be mad and to put on "an antic disposition." Hence, Hamlet is putting on this act of madness so that he can carry out the instructions given to him by his father's ghost, who declared that he was murdered by the prince's own uncle. His father to therefore assigns hamlet avenge his murder. In the patriarchal society in which Ophelia lives, the men are responsible for their women and therefore dominate them, for example; a father dominates his wife and daughter, and a brother dominates his sister. Ophelia's madness mainly occurs because there is no man in her life to dominate her, or rather because too many men have tried to dominate her, but then all the men suddenly left her. Hamlet presented her to the audience more of an object than a human being. Her brother often lectures her, seeking to control her sexuality and her f... Please login to view comments from other users.
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