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Thematic Analysis of Hamlet

Uploaded by spootyhead on Mar 04, 2007

Thematic Analysis of Hamlet

Through the course of time people and organizations have tried to justify killing as a way to end troubles in there lives and in the world. The people or organization who carry out the orders to kill may know deep down that it is wrong to take another human life but instilled on to them is a since of justification for what they have to do. No civilized culture of the world believes that unjustified killing is right, but if there is a way to justify the taking of another life to avenge or to save others then society will sometimes agree with the decisions made by the people in power. The United States government formed a weapon that they knew would take thousands of lives, but save millions in the long run. Two of these weapons were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end a war that would probably still be waged today if the bombs were not dropped. On the evil side of this argument Adolf Hitler believed he had a problem that could be answered with murder, although Hitler’s so called “final solution to the Jewish Problem” was not justified, even though he found a way to convince a large number of people in his radical regime that this was not only the way out but that it was gods way. Shakespeare’s Hamlet shows the main character young prince Hamlet needing a morally right way to kill the new king Claudius and avenge his fathers murder, so Hamlet turns to madness to carry out his murderous wishes without being held accountable.

To prove my statement that Hamlet is acting insane you have to look at the other side of the argument. There are critics in the world, past and present who have said prince Hamlet is truly insane. T.S. Elliot put it best when describing those critics, he said “They knew less about psychology than more recent Hamlet critics.”(Twentieth Century Interpretation of Hamlet pg22.). I believe that when T.S. Elliot says “psychology” he does not mean psychological problems but he is talking about mind games, or you could go as far as to call it psychological warfare, that prince Hamlet is playing with...

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Date:   03/04/2007

Category:   Hamlet

Length:   9 pages (2,043 words)

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