William Shakespeares Hamlet

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is fundamentally a play that seeks the truth. Its substantive representations and characterizations of themes and characters ultimately captivate audiences, with significance in the modern era. Hamlet’s representations of deeply held ideals engage readers to gain emotional connections and understand the moral messages that are still timelessly applicable.
Upon examining Shakespeare’s characters, primarily as an audience, we can see in Hamlet, the play, that Shakespeare’s representations of characters have become intensely captivating. This is evident through the complex characterization, as the key element to the play’s development, in particular the character of Hamlet. Throughout the play many different aspects of Hamlets personality can be seen by the observation of his responses and actions to certain situations. Portrayed as a strong, enigmatic character but through internal weakness the audience witnesses his destruction and that of everyone around him. Hamlet’s inability to think rationally, illusions between emotional reality and true reality, his rejection of pleasurable human desires, his impotent personality preventing action and his realization that if justice is bought to his uncle, that it will not change what has happened in the past, are the main elements which add to the shaping and outcome of the Shakespearian tragedy.   The character, Hamlet, is represented through his complex actions and personality filled by sorrow and angst after the death of his father and the sudden remarrying of his mother. Shakespeare uses forms of language and speech such a soliloquies and tones of sadness, anger and passion, to establish these aspects. When Hamlet is introduced in Act I, Scene II the audience is initially shown the depth of his loss and sorrow. The King asks Hamlet “How is it that the clouds still hang on you” and the queen tells Hamlet to “Cast thy knighted color off”. From these comments the audience is able to envision an...