hamlet is a tragedy because the play starts off where his father is killed, and then his fathers ghost wants to get revenge for his unnecessary death. as well as that, he is also just a loser who has no friends and sucks with woman. this story is filled with so much death, sadness, and anger that there is no way that anyone can be happy at all. if there was even a little bit of happiness in this play, everything might have turned out a lot better for hamlet.
in all honesty, hamlet could have changed his life around after the death of his father. he could have taken the death as an enlightening moment for himself and married Ophelia? he could have also been happy and supportive for his mom about her new marriage although it was to his uncle. overall, hamlet had every opportunity to change thins for himself as well as for everyone else. had he done that, this play might have come out differently than anyone expected.
I don't know. If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't the only person that saw the ghost I would defiantly think that hamlet was just insane. But I think that he was crazy by the end of the story. I think that that is the point and why it is a tragedy.
ReplyDeleteThat definitely would have been a very different story. But I think that Hamlet had to uncover his uncle the King for the killer he was. I don't think I could sit passively by while the man who killed my father openly seduced my mother. But it would have been great if Hamlet still could have kept his mind and married Ophelia and than exposed his uncle and got to watch him die. That would have been a much better ending. Since Hamlet would have regained the thrown and had his wife and mother. But that wouldn't have been tragic and Shakespeare loved tragedy.
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