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a July 20th, 2010

  1. My Impression on Some Thoughts on the Tragedy of Hamlet

    July 20, 2010 by jie

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    What is the meaning of fate? It is always be with us like shadows and it is also like the sunshine which can warm our hearts. 10 Fabulous Tricks for abercrombie and fitch clothing But mostly it is like the deep and horrified nightmare. “God controls everything” This sentence is incisive with no doubt.

    The play “Hamlet”, created during 1600-1601, has been praised highly for several centuries. Even nowaday, it is still heartshaking. However, all these are not because of its story, neither is due to its excellent literature technique, but the problems it reflects. To a large expanse, it describes a kind of primary tragedy—the tragedy of human beings. The characters in this play, with different social positions and distinctive personality, are suffered from one thing: the desire to control themselves, and to fight to get out of a great cage called fate. This situation, maybe it has never disappeared since the man came from the world. They existed with man. The hero Hamlet first faced the delusion of former ideal.

    At the very beginning, Hamlet was in his sort of “childhood”, and he had never been through big setbacks, and his living environment was also very simple. He, who had been learning western orthodox thought believed that “what a brilliant masterpiece human being is!” How noble the reason was! How great strength was! How beautiful the appearance was! How the behavior liked a angle! How the intellectually liked a god! The essence of the universe! The primate of all the things! In the end, his father who was noble and worshiped by people dead and the innocence mother remarried his uncle who has usurped the throne of his father less than a month.

    The moment he saw a ghost, he got that it was the uncle who killed father, which to some extent strengthened his disappointment at the real society and intrust with his previous innocence. “I have see the ghost which may be the devil in disguise.” Later, after he found his uncle’s heinous through the play, he still did not stop his wandering? Why? Hamlet was not the person that shouted slogans, doubted made him thinking. Originally the perfect does not exist, chaste can not win desire, and moral can not win greed. He thought he would revenge, but the immoral person is his mother, he had her blood.

    However his father was killed by his uncle, who had the same thought of human being. Even though the revenge succeeded, would everything come back. So he said, “To be or not to be, it is a question”. To live is a pain, but he also possesses so absolute fear towards death. He met an unanswerable problem, but can not get rid of it.

    By analyzing, his situation is not unique and it is easy to find that the hands of life grip everybody firmly.

    The old king died a violent death, it did not relative to the queen. But she faced two options as a woman, that was moral or desire. Protecting her reputation as a widow, or meeting her needs with marrying the new king. This can be understood as the separation of the material lust from the spiritual desire, and she has chosen the latter one. So she suffered from the contempt and criticism of Hamlet. And then the emptiness of her morality brought about lots of pain to her. Actually, the queen was a kind person and she was not that immoral.

    So, what is the stain in her soul? No before? Would she be happy even if she chose moral at first?, Her misfortune was decided the moment the king died. She was powerless to change her misfortune at the very start. After all, which she chose was the misfortune, but not her destiny.

    The new king that Hamlet’s uncle who usurped the throne, he is the greatest villain in the play, and the immoral people. He desired the throne and cherished the desire of the queen. But the king was other people. Was his brother, that destined he can not get the throne. We can call the things that destiny never give him the lose. He is the same as all other characters in the play, facing the vanishment of the ideal world.

    But he worked hard to fight. He showed a heroic spirit in general actually and strived for his belongings. Someone said that the plot of Hamlet was too forced for the people there would not all died. But this was the fact. He showed to us the ending of a group of people who fought against their destinies.

    They tried to change the destiny without any results. They tried to restore the recollections without anything obtained. The fustration which everyone shares may be the greatest misfortunate of their own.