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This 5 page paper discusses Hamlet's thoughts, feelings and actions and how they can be associated with his character development, as well as the dramatic structure of the play, its visual presentation and cultural significance. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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examined and otherwise poked and prodded for over 400 years. Were still not sure why he does what he does (or doesnt do) but its a great deal of fun
trying to figure him out. This paper discusses Hamlets thoughts, feelings and actions and how they can be associated with his character development, as well as the dramatic structure of
the play, its visual presentation and cultural significance. Discussion We can never really know what someone else is thinking and feeling, we can only use the tools we have, in
this case mostly psychology, to understand what they might be experiencing. And the opinions about Hamlet vary greatly. Buttry says "Shakespeares Hamlet is the embodiment of the passive personality. His
problem is his inability to make a decision and to act upon it. Fear of the consequences of action forces him into a static world of never-ending monologue" (Buttry). His
passivity makes him the "spiritual patron of many a disinherited modern hero" because of his isolation from others and his "alienation from his environment" (Buttry). But what is the
cause of this passivity? Hamlet himself tells us: he says that we would rather suffer in this life than go to the next because we dont know whats there (Buttry).
"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). So it is here, when Hamlets excessive thinking about
the problem inhibits action: "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,
/ And enterprises of great pith and moment / With this regard their currents turn awry / And lose the name of action" (III.i.214-215). The self-loathing evident in this speech
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