Hamlet

Hamlet's character is actually a mixture of his burning desire for revenge mixed with a high level of indecisiveness; he wavers throughout the play between making rash statements and even rasher actions in his pursuit of revenge and an unwillingness to act in any way at all. His primary role as a prince of the nation is to protect his people, but he is doubly unable to do so, preventing from meeting the destiny that should be his both by the way in which his desired for revenge blinds him to the consequences of his actions on the innocent and - when he is not driven by revenge - by his indecisiveness. By the end of the play we see Hamlet as an essentially ineffective person who can only accomplish something when his need for revenge is burning within him (Garner and Spre

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reason why the prince would treat Ophelia so. And arguably he is mad, but it is madness that comes from drinking too often at the wellspring of revenge as Brosely (1999) argues. Hamlet cannot believe that Ophelia is truly innocent as well as good because he himself is neither innocent nor good. The fever for revenge has made him impure, and he imputes this own impurity to others. Ophelia is the one person in the play who might have been able to save Hamlet - and thus his line - but Hamlet is snared in his dreams of ravening revenge that constantly demands fresh victims to understand all that he loses when he so caustically dismisses Ophelia. The concluding scene of the play also illuminates the ways in which Hamlet is driven more by a desire for revenge than by any other motivation. At the same time, this scene demonstrates how Shakespeare was not content merely to reiterate the conventions of classical and neoclassical revenge plays. Hamlet's final words in the play (in Act V, scene ii) are "the rest is silence". If this were a classical revenge play such as those written by Sophocles, this line would have been the final one of the play and we in the audience should have been left with a tragic pile of bodies but also - as trage
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