Paper: 1 The Renaissance Literature

Prepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll No:10P.G.Enrollment No:PG13101021Seat no:11310009Sem:1Email id:drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.comSubmitted to: Smt S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

Hamlet

- By William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564 in the village of Warwickshire.His father John Shakespeare was a farmer’s son.

•Lets talk about the concept of madness first.If a person is mad his thought have no logical connection .They lake thinking ability.They have no good reasoning faculty.

What is Madness?

Can we call Hamlet mad?• When he becomes alone

he behaves differently , and start to speak all the things which he feels , his behavior with the ghost is different.

• His behavior with Ophelia ,with Polonius , with Horatio, with Claudius.

Characteristics of Hamlet• Tragic hero• Behavioral pattern• Sudden jerk• Strong control• Balance• Reasons• Cruel behavior

Hamlet as a tragic hero• The role of fate .• The tragical elements .• For Ex.: Othello,King

Lear ,Julius Caesar , Anthony and Cleopetra.

Behavioural Pattern• Hamlet has developed such

a kind of Behavioural pattern .

• If we may there in the situation of Hamlet we can’t behave differently with different Person.

Sudden Jerk• Hamlet comes to

know about the Crime of his Uncle .

• So, here he get shocked ,and from this all the thing get started.

Strong Control over mind• He balance his

emotions,passions,anger and patience.

• He act as a mad man before Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

• He did not make even a single mistake in dealing with them as a mad man.

Balance• When Hamlet speaks about

himself to Haratio just before the staging of the play, he gives the judicious instruction to the actors about how they ought to act.

• He gives the warm welcome to his old schoolmates.

• And this shows his balanced mind.

Reasons • Ophelia thought him to be

mad as she stopped meeting him but the real cause is the shock given to him by his nears and dears and he was suffering alone.

OCruel Behavior• Hamlet behaves cruelly with Ophelia in one of

the Nunnery Scene.• With Gertrude- he behaves brutally with her.• “Frailty thy name is Women.”_By Hamlet.

Characteristics of Ophelia• She is Polonius’s daughter.

And the heroine and main female character.

• Young, faithful, beautiful and obedient, sweet lovely ,innocent and saint like figure.

• She is not involved in state matters, she is not dishonest.

Dependent on male character• She loved her father , brother

and lover deeply• Father forced her to read letter.• Hamlet behaves cruelly-

Nunnery scene.• So she choose her father leaving

Hamlet.

Ophelia’s madness• When Hamlet kills

her father, and her brother comes, then she sings the song of agony.

Drowned herself.• She meets her tragic

doom , she was faithful to her lover and father but nobody even asks her about her innocence .

• She dies drowning in the river amid the garlands.

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