IB Liter&Perf
Jennifer Guarino
Sep. 11th. 2016
People are motivated to do something in order to achieve something. So is the Hamlet. After Hamlet knew his father’s death through the talking with his father’s ghost was due to the poison from his uncle, he was very angry. Also after his mom’s marriage with his uncle, he felt so disappointed toward his mom. But he wanted to revenge for his dad, he needed to do something to get the king’s position again. Now I would like to talk about the scene that happened in the show part when Hamlet invited all the people, include his mom and the uncle, to see a show that he described he read from an Italian book. This part was very interesting and it is Hamlet who acts in a specific scene to achieve a specific goal. There were two parts in it, and every part Hamlet acted differently in order to achieve different goals. In the first part, Hamlet was in the hall and met Ophelia, however, he knew that there must be someone looking at him. So he stood in front of the mirror and spoke about the most traditional sentence:To be or not to be, that is the question. He’s asking himself. And then in order to show the people who paid attention in the dark he was crazy, he caught Ophelia and began to talk about the loyalty. He was successful because after he went off, the new king and Polonius both thought that Hamlet was crazy and he needed a way to release himself. In this part, his motivation was his dad’s death, in general, all his action in the book was due to his father’s death, if his dad did not die, he can be a good student who studied in Germany. Also, the way he operated this plan was to imitate the craziness to the new king in order to let the new king do not pay attention to him then he could begin his revenge plan. The second part is about the show, Hamlet wanted to use this show to verify the fact that the ghost spoke to him and see his uncle’s reaction. He said to his follower that “ There is a play tonight before the king, one scene of it comes near the circumstance, which I have told of my father’s death. I pray when they see the actor’s action, they’ll feel guilty. Take care of my uncle’s emotion, and after that, we will both our judgment join in censure of his seeming. “ In this soliloquy, he clearly explains his way about how to verify the ghost’s words and how to test his uncle. But whatever he did in this show or before the show, his final mission was to kill his uncle in order to revenge his dad and to clear all the negativity in the world.In the big picture, he wanted the peaceful world and everyone should be loyal to their beliefs. His motivation was not only his father’s death but also it's the non-concerns and the indifference of this society brings to Hamlet, that is why he spoke to be or not to be, he was thinking about to revenge or just endure the pain. These actions had the positive and also negative influence on Hamlet at the same time. The positive influence was that Hamlet successfully used his imitation to make his Polonius believed that Hamlet’s craziness was due to his daughter Ophelia, not about the old king. Through the show, Hamlet confirmed the ghost’s words and believed his uncle really killed his dad. However, there also had a negative influence, because Hamlet made a show in order to verify the reason how his father died, he was stayed in danger due to his uncle. His uncle was afraid of Hamlet because he can not imagine how could Hamlet knew the truth, so he decided to kill the Hamlet in order to keep the secret.
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