Hamlet Essay -- ESSAYS

Hamlet Each major character of Shakespeares Hamlet has a major flaw, which destroys him or her. The King, Queen, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Polonius all have these flaws moreover Horatio does not. He is Shakespeares sample man. Claudius fatal flaw is ambitiousness. Claudius kills his brother King Hamlet and then takes the throne by marrying King Hamlets married woman Therefore our sometime sister, now our queenhave we (as twere with a defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole) taken to wife(I.ii.10-14).Claudius admits to killing the King in a confessional prayerO, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven it hath the primal first curse upont, a brothers murderO, what form of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder My crown, mine own want, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain th offense? (III.iii.40-43, 55-60). Another ambition of Claudius is he wants to have Hamlet murdered in England I like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range. Therefore prepare you. I your mission will forthwith dispatch. And he to England shall along with youhazard so near s as doth hourly grow out of his brows (III.iii.1-7).The fate of the King is fatal. His double-dealing kills him when he challenges Laertes and Hamlet to duel, he poisons the tip of Laertes sword and in a cup of wine he puts a poisonous pearl Hamlet The particular envenomed too Then, venom, to thy work. King O, yet defend me, friends I am but hurt. Hamlet Here, thou incestuous, *murdrous,* damnd Dane, d... ...s some danger (III.iv.26-30, 38-40).Shakespeares ideal person is Horatio. In the beginning of the play, Horatio, when he sees the ghost decides to tell Hamlet So have I heard and do in part rely itBreak we our watch up, and by my advice let us impart what we have see n tonight unto young Hamlet(I.i.180-185). Horatio is ruled by reason and Hamlet recognizes and comments on this Give me that man that is not passions slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core, ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee(III.ii.76-79).. Horatio does not have a fatal flaw and does not die. Shakespeare gives his main characters flaws that destroy their lives. The King, Queen, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Polonius all have flaws and die in the end, but Horatio, Shakespeares ideal character, does not have a fatal flaw and lives.BibliographyHamlet, William Shakespeare