To the many readers of Hamlet, Hamlet may be defined as a mad man who is still immature, indecisive,
and insane. To me, he sounds like a typical teenager. However, picturing myself
with the tragedy Hamlet face will almost give me nightmares. Everyone comes through
difficulties that are very burdensome to overcome. We readers of Hamlet don’t completely know the trouble
Hamlet has to deal with and what Shakesphere full intension is when he wrote
this. The fact that everyone is different, everyone has different strengths and
weaknesses. For example, those who don’t bite their nails won’t know extreme
difficulty of losing that habit for those who have a habit of biting their
nails. It’s never easy to put your feet into someone else’s shoes.
In the play, Hamlet doesn’t seem to be
freaked out, but keeps his cool when his dead father presented in front of him
as ghost. In reality, wouldn’t someone who saw a talking ghost along with
witnesses lose their mind? Surprisingly, Hamlet kept calm and not transform into
a mad man. He was also able to show his maturity in this part of the play. The
ghost, the father of Hamlet, tells Hamlet that he was killed by his own
brother, Claudius, who is now on the throne. Although Hamlet had a feeling of
the assassination of his father was played by Claudius, he wasn’t fully sure.
Even at this point of the play, Hamlet hated Claudius. He even hated his
mother, Gertrude, for not only betraying him, but her husband. Gertrude did
have an affair with Claudius before the death of her husband, but after his
death, she married Claudius, who was her brother-in-law. How in the world would
Hamlet be fine with all this? In addition, Hamlet’s father, who is a ghost,
assign Hamlet a duty before leaving: killing Claudius. This most likely raise
Hamlet’s stress meter higher than ever. This was a huge task for a youngster
like Hamlet. Yes, there are those readers whom think Hamlet is extremely
intelligent and is pretending to be a mad man to revenge for the killing of his
father. However, in reality, how can you not react to this?
Although Shakesphere is known to be one of the
world’s best writers ever and the author of Hamlet,
Hamlet can be reflected on for the
readers themselves. Rewinding the actions Hamlet had reacted to in the play, it’s
just like us. Shakesphere defines what a human being is. A human being may have
trillions of different type of traits and characteristics, but it truly defines
imperfection. Hamlet may at one time had everything, living as a prince where
he all has all the freedom anyone can ask for, but for him, he didn’t and still
struggled as a human being. If you consider a man who struggles of being a human being a mad man, then call me a mad man.
