Hamlet complex characteristics

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The story begins when Hamlet ,Prince of Denmark, who returns from university in Wittenberg, Germany and finds his father dead.  Hamlet has extremely philosophical and extraordinary personality. At first when he discovers his father death he is shocked, he could not go over it. As you go along with reading of this poem, you can discover many sides of main character. On one side he is angry, mad, irate, furious. Those all traits we see, when he discovers that his uncle Claudius killed his own father and know he seats on throne and married to his mom. He is putting himself down. As he starts think about the situation that happened with his mom his emotions go wild. He feels guilty that he, the one who knows truth, is allowing his own mother to be married to his father killer and that killer is his own uncle!  After this unbelievable news  he becomes depressed, dispirit, desperate and suicidal. He really wants to tell his mother a truth, but he is afraid not only telling her horrible truth, he is also scares to hurt her that much. His own silence is killing him because he does now know what to do. Hamlet has surprising and paradoxical personality and never behaves to expectation of other characters. Hamlet is in process learning about his own complicated personality . He is also helps reader to understand other characters personality, he is more successful in discovering others personality better than his own. Shakespeare  by creating those complex personalities made a reader so interested about what is going to happen next.

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  1. The prince Hamlet is a character portrayed by Shakespeare to exhibit the inside dirty secrets of Denmark’s throne and betrayals to achieve that. The prince Hamlet exploits the betrayal of his uncle Claudius who killed his father and also, gets marry to his mother. The curiosity is already part of his personage and now his father’s murder lead creates compulsion of revenge also. Perhaps, he let the easy chance go wasted to kill his uncle and wants to unveil his uncle’s betrayal. Therefore, Shakespeare character Hamlet creates a drama within the drama with the help of artists by assigning them roles. These characteristics of Hamlet makes him hyper active in seek of revenge and he reacts obnoxiously, his speeches are full of sarcasm and indicates the hypocritical behavior of other characters. Moreover, Hamlet is similar in unveiling the truth with comparing to Oedipus in which the king Oedipus comes to know the truth in episodically order and element of tragedy is easily detectable. Their climax of stories ends with the moral lessons, compulsion for the throne, hypocrisy and tragedy.

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