After Hamlet encounters his Father’s demise, he becomes obsessed with death. He wonders if suicide is the best response to ending his pain in the play. During these thoughts, Hamlet exclaims a famous phrase: “to be or not to be.” Hamlet was thinking about the afterlife and suicide to achieve peace, and during this speech, a reader might feel the pain and despair of the main character (Al-Ebadia et al. 1448). However, the main character is still aiming to get revenge for his Father’s death, but the thought of death remains with him until the end of the play. In addition, he got mad because of his inability to act according to the given revenge instructions.
There are a couple of interactions between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet is believed to fall in love with Ophelia, and other play characters defined these feelings as the reason for Hamlet’s strange behavior. Hamlet does not accept these feelings and states that he also has no feelings for Ophelia. This situation is connected with Hamlet’s aim to avenge his Father no matter what, which causes no good for everyone and leads to hamlet’s death (Hameed 120). However, after the girl’s death, Hamlet confesses his feelings, which he could show earlier.
At the end of the book, the reader sees the tragic denouement of the plot. After fighting on Ophelia’s grave, Hamlet avenges his Father and mother, who were also poisoned during the last battle. Death is the central theme of the play and is faced during the whole process of revenge by Hamlet (Wilson et al. 285). Hamlet poisoned Laertes with his sword and stabbed Claudius, and achieved revenge. However, during this battle, he was deadly injured by a poisonous sword and died, achieving peace.
All in all, this story reveals the problem of uncertainty in life and the power struggle. The main character was obsessed with revenge and suicidal thoughts, which resulted in tragedy ending for everyone. Still, this play raised many difficult questions about life, death, trust, and power and taught that revenge would bring nothing that suffers.
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