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Mandi Gerland
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24 Feb 2016
emotion which is created by illusion. The reason is that Hamlet did not recognize
that after one month, everything will go back to its position in reality, but he still
keeps his sadness of his father dead last longer. Moreover, Hamlet attacks his
mother by offensive words, after he finally identifies who the murder of his father is
Claudius by using the play as the same
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as what his father ghost said. It makes him feel very extremely angry with his
mother, because she does not realize the true. Hamlet told Gertrude:
A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
And put it in his pocket. (3.4.97-102)
Hamlet uses all the offensive words to describe how bad Claudius is to his mother
and he wants his mother be awake about that. In Hamlets mind, the ghost creates
an image that Gertrude is a victim of Claudius, Hamlet has to help her out.
Nevertheless, Gertrude does not believe what Hamlet say and react untruthfully,
because she thinks he is still being madness. Moreover, Hamlet does not definitely
believe the ghost of his father in the beginning, but after using the play to detect
Claudius, Hamlet completely trusts in the ghost father. As the result of Gertrudes
reaction, Hamlet believed in ghost that Gertrude is sedated person, so he used the
offensive word to wake up her. However, he does not realize that what he is doing is
breaking down the family relationship. The internal emotion of Hamlet destroys his
family in isolating Hamlet from his mother, and disturbing his mother. Moreover,
illusion does not stop in destroying Hamlets family, it also affect to his love.
Hamlets love is affected after his father dead by through his changing
behaviors by illusion. Illusion makes him act more crazy after he knows Ophelia is
not going to married him because he knows the advises from her father, and
brother to Ophelia. Therefore, he went to Ophelias room, and do some bad
behaviors. For example, Ophelia said
He took me by the wrist and held me hard
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
And, with his other hand thus oer his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face
under the thread of Poloniuss scheme. In Claudiuss scheme due to the Polonius
deaths raise him the alert of Hamlets revenge, and Hamlet cannot escape from
dead. For instant, Claudius said: Let further think of this,
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
May fit us to our shape. If this should fail,
And that our drift look through our bad performance,
Twere better not assayed.Therefore this project
Should have a back or second that might hold
If this should blast in proof. -Soft, let me seeWell make a solemn wager on your cunnings
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Ihat! When in your motion you are hot and dry,
As make your bouts more violent to that end,
And that he calls for drink, Ill have prepared him
A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping
If he by chance escape your venomed stuck,
Our purpose may hold there.-But stay, whats that noise?
(3.7.147-158)
Claudius made his scheme very carefully, and he does not want any mistake
happened. Therefore, he also makes a backup plan. In case, the first plan does not
work. He did it because the madness, insanity of Hamlet from illusion is harming
him, and there is no way to stop it, except the dead of Hamlet. However, illusion
from Hamlet fades the danger of Claudius in Hamlets mind, so Hamlet is not scare
of Claudius and becomes arrogance. Therefore, he is trapped in agreeing to take the
fence without doubting. As a result, in the end of story, familys Hamlet is dead.
In summary, Hamlet is a good person, but illusion of taking revenge makes
him not distinguish with the danger of reality. Therefore, it leads Hamlet gradually to
the destruction of his family, his love, and life in a same formulation. Illusion of
taking revenge is destruction of everything having.
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Works Cited
Shakespeare,Villiam.Hamlet.Ed.Barbara A.Mowat and Paul werstine.New York:
Washington Square-Pocket,1992.