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HAMLET
BY :
HOE XIN YI
JANAKI A/P P. RAJAMANICKAM
NUR FAZLIN BINTI MOHD NAIM
SARMILA SUNDAR
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PLAY
• Full Title : The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of
Denmark
• Author : William Shakespeare
• Type of Work : Play
• Genre : Tragedy, revenge tragedy
• Original Language : English
• Time and Place Written : London, England, early
seventeenth century (probably 1600-1602).
• Date of first publication : 1603, in a pirated quarto
edition titled The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, 1604
in a superior quarto edition.
Summary
Prince Hamlet is depressed because his mother
Gertrude remarried to Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius afther the king
died. To Hamlet, the marriage is "foul incest." Worse still,
Claudius has had himself crowned King despite the fact that
Hamlet was his father's heir to the throne. Hamlet suspects foul
play.
When his father's ghost visits the castle, Hamlet's
suspicions are confirmed. The Ghost complains that he is
unable to rest in peace because he was murdered. Claudius
poured poison in King Hamlet's ear while the old king napped.
He entreats Hamlet to avenge his death, but spares Gertrude.
Hamlet pretends to be mad so that it enables him to
observe the interactions in the castle, but finds himself in a
state of confusion. In his persistent confusion, he questions the
Ghost's trustworthiness. Hamlet begins to agonize over what
he perceives as his cowardice because he cannot stop himself
from thinking.
In order to test Claudius, Hamlet asks for help of a
troupe of players who perform a play called The Murder of
Gonzago which Hamlet has added scenes that recreate the
murder the Ghost described. As Hamlet expected, Claudius’
reaction to the staged murder reveals the truth. Convinced
now that Claudius is a villain, Hamlet resolves to kill him.
While Hamlet is trying to revenge, he has causes six
ancillary deaths. The first death belongs to Polonius, whom
Hamlet stabs through a tapestry as the old man spies on
Hamlet and Gertrude in the Queen's private chamber.
Claudius punishes Hamlet for Polonius' death by exiling him to
England. Hamlet's school friends Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are sent to Denmark from Germany to spy and
deliver Hamlet into the English king's hands for execution.
Hamlet discovers the plot and arranges for the hanging
of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead. Ophelia, distraught
over her father's death and Hamlet's behavior, drowns while
singing sad love songs.
Laertes, returned to Denmark from France to avenge
his father's death, witnesses Ophelia's descent into madness.
After her funeral, where he and Hamlet come to blows over
which of them loved Ophelia best, Laertes vows to punish
Hamlet for her death as well.
Unencumbered by words, Laertes plots with Claudius to
kill Hamlet. In the midst of the sword fight, however, Laertes
drops his poisoned sword. Hamlet retrieves the sword and cuts
Laertes. The lethal poison kills Laertes. Before he dies,
Laertes tells Hamlet that because Hamlet has already been cut
with the same sword, he too will shortly die. Horatio diverts
Hamlet's attention from Laertes for a moment by pointing out
that "The Queen falls."
Gertrude, believing that Hamlet's hitting Laertes means
her son is winning the fencing match, has drunk a toast to her
son from the poisoned cup Claudius had intended for Hamlet.
The Queen dies.
As Laertes lies dying, he confesses to Hamlet his part in
the plot and explains that Gertrude's death lies on Claudius'
head. Enraged, Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword
and then pours the last of the poisoned wine down the King's
throat. Before he dies, Hamlet declares that the throne should
now pass to Prince Fortinbras of Norway, and he asks his true
friend Horatio to revelves the truth that have led to the
bloodbath at Elsinore. With his last breath, he releases himself
from the prison of his words: "The rest is silence."
THEMES
1.The Mystery of Death
~Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the
course of the play he considers death from a great many
perspectives. He ponders both the spiritual aftermath of death,
embodied in the ghost, and the physical remainders of the
dead, such as by Yorick’s skull and the decaying corpses in the
cemetery.
~Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of
spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the
answers to Hamlet’s deepest questions, ending once and for all
the problem of trying to determine truth in an ambiguous world.
~ And, since death is both the cause and the consequence of
revenge, it is intimately tied to the theme of revenge and justice
—Claudius’s murder of King Hamlet initiates Hamlet’s quest for
revenge, and Claudius’s death is the end of that quest.
~The question of his own death plagues Hamlet as well, as he
repeatedly contemplates whether or not suicide is a morally
legitimate action in an unbearably painful world.
~Hamlet’s grief and misery is such that he frequently longs for death
to end his suffering, but he fears that if he commits suicide, he will
be consigned to eternal suffering in hell because of the Christian
religion’s prohibition of suicide. In his famous “To be or not to be”
(soliloquy) Hamlet philosophically concludes that no one would
choose to endure the pain of life if he or she were not afraid of what
will come after death, and that it is this fear which causes complex
moral considerations to interfere with the capacity for action.
2.The Complexity of Action
~Directly related to the theme of certainty is the theme of action. How is it
possible to take reasonable, effective, purposeful action? In Hamlet, the
question of how to act is affected not only by rational considerations,
such as the need for certainty, but also by emotional, ethical, and
psychological factors. Hamlet himself appears to distrust the idea that it’s
even possible to act in a controlled, purposeful way. When he does act,
he prefers to do it blindly, recklessly, and violently.
~The other characters obviously think much less about “action” in the
abstract than Hamlet does, and are therefore less troubled about the
possibility of acting effectively. They simply act as they feel is
appropriate.
~But in some sense they prove that Hamlet is right, because all of their
actions miscarry. Claudius possesses himself of queen and crown
through bold action, but his conscience torments him, and he is beset by
threats to his authority (and, of course, he dies). Laertes resolves that
nothing will distract him from acting out his revenge, but he is easily
influenced and manipulated into serving Claudius’s ends, and his
poisoned rapier is turned back upon himself.
3.The Nation as a Diseased Body
~Everything is connected in Hamlet, including the welfare of the
royal family and the health of the state as a whole. The play’s early
scenes explore the sense of anxiety and dread that surrounds the
transfer of power from one ruler to the next. Throughout the play,
characters draw explicit connections between the moral legitimacy
of a ruler and the health of the nation.
~Denmark is frequently described as a physical body made ill by
the moral corruption of Claudius and Gertrude, and many
observers interpret the presence of the ghost as a supernatural
omen indicating that “[s]omething is rotten in the state of Denmark”
(I.iv.67).
~The dead King Hamlet is portrayed as a strong, forthright ruler
under whose guard the state was in good health, while Claudius, a
wicked politician, has corrupted and compromised Denmark to
satisfy his own appetites. At the end of the play, the rise to power of
the upright Fortinbras suggests that Denmark will be strengthened
once again.
CHARACTERS AND
CHARACTERISATION
1 ) Hamlet
•son of Old Hamlet and Gertrude, thus Prince of Denmark.
•The ghost of Old Hamlet charges him with the task of killing his uncle,
Claudius, for killing him and usurping the throne of Denmark.
•Frustrated and disappointed of his mother for her lustiness.
•moody, theatrical, witty, brilliant young man
•perpetually fascinated and tormented by doubts and introspection
•The variety of his moods, from manic to somber, seems to cover much of
the range of human possibility.
2) Old Hamlet
•former King of Denmark
•He appears as a ghost and exhorts his son to kill Claudius, whom he
claims has killed him in order to secure the throne and the queen of
Denmark.
•Hamlet fears (or at least says he fears) that the ghost is an imposter, an
evil spirit sent to lure him to hell.
•Old Hamlet's ghost reappears in Act Three of the play when Hamlet goes
too far in berating his mother. After this second appearance, he is heard and
seen no more in the play.
3) Claudius
•Old Hamlet's brother, Hamlet's uncle, and Gertrude's newly-wed husband.
•Murdered his brother in order to seize the throne and subsequently married
Gertrude, his sister-in-law.
•A rather dull man who is fond of the pleasures of the flesh, sex and
drinking.
•Is indeed guilty of murder and usurpation.
• Claudius is the only character aside from Hamlet to have a soliloquy in the
play.
•When he is convinced that Hamlet has found him out, Claudius eventually
schemes to have him murdered.
4) Gertrude
•Old Hamlet's widow and Claudius' wife.
•Seems unaware that Claudius killed her former husband.
•Gertrude loves Hamlet tremendously, while Hamlet has very mixed feelings
about her for marrying the (in his eyes) inferior Claudius after her first
husband's death.
•Hamlet attributes this need for a husband to her lustiness.
5) Horatio
•Hamlet's closest friend.
•Know each other from the University of Wittenberg, where they are both
students.
•A studious, skeptical young man, perhaps more serious and less ingenious
than Hamlet but more than capable of trading witticisms with his good friend.
•A good-humored and philosophical through all of life's buffets.
• At the end of the play, Hamlet charges Horatio with the task of explaining
the pile of bodies to the confused onlookers in court.
6) Polonius
•The father of Ophelia and Laertes and the chief adviser to the throne of
Denmark.
•A windy, interfering, suspicious, silly old man, a "rash, intruding fool," in
Hamlet's phrase.
•He hatches the theory that Ophelia caused Hamlet to go mad by rejecting
him.
•He is accidentally killed by Hamlet while he eavesdrops behind an arras in
Gertrude's bedroom.
•His death causes his daughter to go mad.
7) Ophelia
•The daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes.
•Received several tributes of love from Hamlet but rejects him after her
father orders her to do so.
•In general, she is controlled by the men in her life, moved around like a
pawn in their scheme .
•She is regularly mocked by Hamlet and lectured by her father and brother
about her sexuality.
•She goes mad after Hamlet murders Polonius.
•She later drowns and dies.
8) Laertes
•Polonius' son and Ophelia's brother.
•An impetuous young man who lives primarily in Paris, France.
•He returns in Act Four with an angry entourage after his father's death at
Hamlet's hands.
•He and Claudius conspire to kill Hamlet in the course of a duel between
Laertes and the prince.

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Hamlet

  • 1. HAMLET BY : HOE XIN YI JANAKI A/P P. RAJAMANICKAM NUR FAZLIN BINTI MOHD NAIM SARMILA SUNDAR
  • 2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PLAY • Full Title : The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • Author : William Shakespeare • Type of Work : Play • Genre : Tragedy, revenge tragedy • Original Language : English • Time and Place Written : London, England, early seventeenth century (probably 1600-1602). • Date of first publication : 1603, in a pirated quarto edition titled The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, 1604 in a superior quarto edition.
  • 4. Prince Hamlet is depressed because his mother Gertrude remarried to Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius afther the king died. To Hamlet, the marriage is "foul incest." Worse still, Claudius has had himself crowned King despite the fact that Hamlet was his father's heir to the throne. Hamlet suspects foul play. When his father's ghost visits the castle, Hamlet's suspicions are confirmed. The Ghost complains that he is unable to rest in peace because he was murdered. Claudius poured poison in King Hamlet's ear while the old king napped. He entreats Hamlet to avenge his death, but spares Gertrude. Hamlet pretends to be mad so that it enables him to observe the interactions in the castle, but finds himself in a state of confusion. In his persistent confusion, he questions the Ghost's trustworthiness. Hamlet begins to agonize over what he perceives as his cowardice because he cannot stop himself from thinking.
  • 5. In order to test Claudius, Hamlet asks for help of a troupe of players who perform a play called The Murder of Gonzago which Hamlet has added scenes that recreate the murder the Ghost described. As Hamlet expected, Claudius’ reaction to the staged murder reveals the truth. Convinced now that Claudius is a villain, Hamlet resolves to kill him. While Hamlet is trying to revenge, he has causes six ancillary deaths. The first death belongs to Polonius, whom Hamlet stabs through a tapestry as the old man spies on Hamlet and Gertrude in the Queen's private chamber. Claudius punishes Hamlet for Polonius' death by exiling him to England. Hamlet's school friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent to Denmark from Germany to spy and deliver Hamlet into the English king's hands for execution.
  • 6. Hamlet discovers the plot and arranges for the hanging of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead. Ophelia, distraught over her father's death and Hamlet's behavior, drowns while singing sad love songs. Laertes, returned to Denmark from France to avenge his father's death, witnesses Ophelia's descent into madness. After her funeral, where he and Hamlet come to blows over which of them loved Ophelia best, Laertes vows to punish Hamlet for her death as well. Unencumbered by words, Laertes plots with Claudius to kill Hamlet. In the midst of the sword fight, however, Laertes drops his poisoned sword. Hamlet retrieves the sword and cuts Laertes. The lethal poison kills Laertes. Before he dies, Laertes tells Hamlet that because Hamlet has already been cut with the same sword, he too will shortly die. Horatio diverts Hamlet's attention from Laertes for a moment by pointing out that "The Queen falls."
  • 7. Gertrude, believing that Hamlet's hitting Laertes means her son is winning the fencing match, has drunk a toast to her son from the poisoned cup Claudius had intended for Hamlet. The Queen dies. As Laertes lies dying, he confesses to Hamlet his part in the plot and explains that Gertrude's death lies on Claudius' head. Enraged, Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword and then pours the last of the poisoned wine down the King's throat. Before he dies, Hamlet declares that the throne should now pass to Prince Fortinbras of Norway, and he asks his true friend Horatio to revelves the truth that have led to the bloodbath at Elsinore. With his last breath, he releases himself from the prison of his words: "The rest is silence."
  • 8. THEMES 1.The Mystery of Death ~Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. He ponders both the spiritual aftermath of death, embodied in the ghost, and the physical remainders of the dead, such as by Yorick’s skull and the decaying corpses in the cemetery. ~Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet’s deepest questions, ending once and for all the problem of trying to determine truth in an ambiguous world. ~ And, since death is both the cause and the consequence of revenge, it is intimately tied to the theme of revenge and justice —Claudius’s murder of King Hamlet initiates Hamlet’s quest for revenge, and Claudius’s death is the end of that quest.
  • 9. ~The question of his own death plagues Hamlet as well, as he repeatedly contemplates whether or not suicide is a morally legitimate action in an unbearably painful world. ~Hamlet’s grief and misery is such that he frequently longs for death to end his suffering, but he fears that if he commits suicide, he will be consigned to eternal suffering in hell because of the Christian religion’s prohibition of suicide. In his famous “To be or not to be” (soliloquy) Hamlet philosophically concludes that no one would choose to endure the pain of life if he or she were not afraid of what will come after death, and that it is this fear which causes complex moral considerations to interfere with the capacity for action.
  • 10. 2.The Complexity of Action ~Directly related to the theme of certainty is the theme of action. How is it possible to take reasonable, effective, purposeful action? In Hamlet, the question of how to act is affected not only by rational considerations, such as the need for certainty, but also by emotional, ethical, and psychological factors. Hamlet himself appears to distrust the idea that it’s even possible to act in a controlled, purposeful way. When he does act, he prefers to do it blindly, recklessly, and violently. ~The other characters obviously think much less about “action” in the abstract than Hamlet does, and are therefore less troubled about the possibility of acting effectively. They simply act as they feel is appropriate. ~But in some sense they prove that Hamlet is right, because all of their actions miscarry. Claudius possesses himself of queen and crown through bold action, but his conscience torments him, and he is beset by threats to his authority (and, of course, he dies). Laertes resolves that nothing will distract him from acting out his revenge, but he is easily influenced and manipulated into serving Claudius’s ends, and his poisoned rapier is turned back upon himself.
  • 11. 3.The Nation as a Diseased Body ~Everything is connected in Hamlet, including the welfare of the royal family and the health of the state as a whole. The play’s early scenes explore the sense of anxiety and dread that surrounds the transfer of power from one ruler to the next. Throughout the play, characters draw explicit connections between the moral legitimacy of a ruler and the health of the nation. ~Denmark is frequently described as a physical body made ill by the moral corruption of Claudius and Gertrude, and many observers interpret the presence of the ghost as a supernatural omen indicating that “[s]omething is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I.iv.67). ~The dead King Hamlet is portrayed as a strong, forthright ruler under whose guard the state was in good health, while Claudius, a wicked politician, has corrupted and compromised Denmark to satisfy his own appetites. At the end of the play, the rise to power of the upright Fortinbras suggests that Denmark will be strengthened once again.
  • 13. 1 ) Hamlet •son of Old Hamlet and Gertrude, thus Prince of Denmark. •The ghost of Old Hamlet charges him with the task of killing his uncle, Claudius, for killing him and usurping the throne of Denmark. •Frustrated and disappointed of his mother for her lustiness. •moody, theatrical, witty, brilliant young man •perpetually fascinated and tormented by doubts and introspection •The variety of his moods, from manic to somber, seems to cover much of the range of human possibility. 2) Old Hamlet •former King of Denmark •He appears as a ghost and exhorts his son to kill Claudius, whom he claims has killed him in order to secure the throne and the queen of Denmark. •Hamlet fears (or at least says he fears) that the ghost is an imposter, an evil spirit sent to lure him to hell. •Old Hamlet's ghost reappears in Act Three of the play when Hamlet goes too far in berating his mother. After this second appearance, he is heard and seen no more in the play.
  • 14. 3) Claudius •Old Hamlet's brother, Hamlet's uncle, and Gertrude's newly-wed husband. •Murdered his brother in order to seize the throne and subsequently married Gertrude, his sister-in-law. •A rather dull man who is fond of the pleasures of the flesh, sex and drinking. •Is indeed guilty of murder and usurpation. • Claudius is the only character aside from Hamlet to have a soliloquy in the play. •When he is convinced that Hamlet has found him out, Claudius eventually schemes to have him murdered. 4) Gertrude •Old Hamlet's widow and Claudius' wife. •Seems unaware that Claudius killed her former husband. •Gertrude loves Hamlet tremendously, while Hamlet has very mixed feelings about her for marrying the (in his eyes) inferior Claudius after her first husband's death. •Hamlet attributes this need for a husband to her lustiness.
  • 15. 5) Horatio •Hamlet's closest friend. •Know each other from the University of Wittenberg, where they are both students. •A studious, skeptical young man, perhaps more serious and less ingenious than Hamlet but more than capable of trading witticisms with his good friend. •A good-humored and philosophical through all of life's buffets. • At the end of the play, Hamlet charges Horatio with the task of explaining the pile of bodies to the confused onlookers in court. 6) Polonius •The father of Ophelia and Laertes and the chief adviser to the throne of Denmark. •A windy, interfering, suspicious, silly old man, a "rash, intruding fool," in Hamlet's phrase. •He hatches the theory that Ophelia caused Hamlet to go mad by rejecting him. •He is accidentally killed by Hamlet while he eavesdrops behind an arras in Gertrude's bedroom. •His death causes his daughter to go mad.
  • 16. 7) Ophelia •The daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes. •Received several tributes of love from Hamlet but rejects him after her father orders her to do so. •In general, she is controlled by the men in her life, moved around like a pawn in their scheme . •She is regularly mocked by Hamlet and lectured by her father and brother about her sexuality. •She goes mad after Hamlet murders Polonius. •She later drowns and dies. 8) Laertes •Polonius' son and Ophelia's brother. •An impetuous young man who lives primarily in Paris, France. •He returns in Act Four with an angry entourage after his father's death at Hamlet's hands. •He and Claudius conspire to kill Hamlet in the course of a duel between Laertes and the prince.

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. In a moving tribute just before the play-within-the-play begins, in Act Two scene two, Hamlet praises Horatio as his soul's choice and declares that he loves Horatio because he is "not passion's slave" but is rather good-humored and philosophical through all of life's buffets.