Hamlet

Hamlet

1. History

   • Hamlet's feigned madness did not make him a hero.
   • Hamlet wonders about the nobility of suffering and how to fight death. a parameter between existing or not, living or dying.
   • The reflex led him to delirium and he had a lot to lose with any decision taken in search of revenge, so he went into pretense madness, because it was always easier to find a reason why we can justify our actions.
   • There is a paradox in the work in which the pain of death must be avenged and Hamlet has pursued this.

2. Characters

   • Polonius is a courtier who, like everyone else at the time, idealized patriarchal society in such a way that it would directly affect his daughter's wishes, who was always pressured by her father to follow his ways in the manner that Polonius guided.
   • Ophelia represents female censorship for not having choices about her decisions and dying of love for Hamlet.
   • Hamlet was lost in thought because he had a lot to lose but he never knew what those things were
   • The queen represents an oppressed figure always related to good manners and marriage, not even waiting a while for her husband's death to remarry.
   • The ghost of the late king is closely linked to fear and delirium. Taking into account that Hamlet changed his whole life in search of revenge.
   • King Claudio represents a vision of power and that everything is possible in search of it.