第一篇：Hamlet哈姆雷特讀后感

Hamlet

Soliloquy is a dramatic speech delivered by one character speaking aloud while under the impression of being alone.The soliloquist thus reveals his or her inner thoughts and feelings to the audience.The form was quite popular in the plays of Shakespeare.The soliloquy may also act simply as a vehicle for information about absent characters or events occurring at some other time or place.In the first monologue, Hamlet thinking life existence significance: “to be or not to be, this is a problem worth thinking about”.On the one hand , Hamlet has strong sense of responsibility and mission, on the other hand, he feels so isolated, the dream wake up to the pain of no way out.So we can understand the heaviness of Hamlet: “this is a reverse chaotic age, alas, unlucky but I will rise again reforming qiankun responsibility”.He make the humanistic ideal reconstruction reality as their bounden mission.Hamlet is one of ideal characters by Shakespeare, is the Renaissance humanist typical image.He was the new thought, the new culture influence, acura “person” strength.In his “love each other” instead of interpersonal honour low low level relations.He is regarded as a “courtier eyes, scholars contend of tongue, military sword, countries look forward to of a delicate flower.”.But a series of changes in the home , his mental was heavy blow.His love father sudden death that broke his beautiful fantasy about the world and the ugly appear.In the play, he become a Melancholy prince and live in reality and ideal contrast great contradiction.Playwright use a large number of “monologue”, to the survival significance of thinking, to the inequality indignation,is arranged in important moment, it become understand within characters and the thought development vein important way.

第二篇：hamlet 哈姆雷特 讀后感 英文

?To be, or not to be‘ is the object of this drama, this sentence reflects the contradiction and struggle of the young prince.After struggling with his own heart, finally, the young hamlet summoned up courage and fight with his evil uncle.Act I, scene i.On a dark winter night outside Ellsinore Castle in Denmark, an officer named Bernardo comes to relieve the watchman Francisco.Shakespeare uses a dark night as the first background to establish the dark tone.It leads people to a dim kingdom.Act I, scene iii.The morning after Horatio and the guardsmen see the ghost;King Claudius gives a speech to his courtiers, explaining his recent marriage to Gertrude, his brother‘s widow and the mother of Prince Hamlet.Having established a dark, ghostly atmosphere in the first scene, Shakespeare devotes the second to the seemingly jovial court of the recently crowned King Claudius.If the area outside the castle is murky with the aura of dread and anxiety, the rooms inside the castle are devoted to an energetic attempt to banish that aura, as the king, the queen, and the courtiers desperately pretend that nothing is out of the ordinary.It is difficult to imagine a more convoluted family dynamic or a more out-of-balance political situation, but Claudius nevertheless preaches an ethic of balance to his courtiers, pledging to sustain and combine the sorrow he feels for the king‘s death and the joy he feels for his wedding in equal parts.Act I, scene IV also continues the development of the motif of the ill health of Denmark.Hamlet views the king‘s carousing as a further sign of the state‘s corruption, commenting that alcohol makes the bad aspects of a person‘s character overwhelm all of his or her good qualities.And the appearance of the ghost is again seen as a sign of Denmark‘s decay, this time by Marcellus, who famously declares, ―Something is rotten in the state of Denmark‖(I.iv.67)

The short scene that begins Act II is divided into two parts, the first of which involves Polonius‘s conversation with Reynaldo about Laertes and the second of which involves Polonius‘s conversation with Ophelia about Hamlet.The scene serves to develop the character of Polonius, who is one of the most intriguing figures in Hamlet.Polonius can be interpreted as either a doddering fool or as a cunning manipulator, and he has been portrayed onstage as both.In this scene, as he carefully instructs Reynaldo in the art of snooping, he seems more the manipulator than the fool, though his obvious love of hearing his own voice leads him into some comical misprisions(―And then, sir, does a this — a does — / what was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say some / thing.Where did I leave?‖(II.i.49–51]).In the first two scenes of Act III, Hamlet and Claudius both devise traps to catch one another‘s secrets: Claudius spies on Hamlet to discover the true nature of his madness, and Hamlet attempts to ―catch the conscience of the king‖ in the theater(III.i.582).The play-within-a-play tells the story of Gonzago, the Duke of Vienna, and his wife, Baptista, who marries his murdering nephew, Lucianus.Hamlet believes that the play is an opportunity to establish a more reliable basis for Claudius‘s guilt than the claims of the ghost.Since he has no way of knowing whether to believe a member of the spirit world, he tries to determine whether Claudius is guilty by reading his behavior for signs of a psychological state of guilt.In Act III, scene iii, Hamlet finally seems ready to put his desire for revenge into action.He is satisfied that the play has proven his uncle‘s guilt.When Claudius prays, the audience is given real certainty that Claudius murdered his brother: a full, spontaneous confession, even though nobody else hears it.This only heightens our sense that the climax of the play is due to arrive.But Hamlet waits.As we saw in Act IV, scene ii, the murder of Polonius and the subsequent traumatic encounter with

his mother seem to leave Hamlet in a frantic, unstable frame of mind, the mode in which his excitable nature seems very similar to actual madness.He taunts Claudius, toward whom his hostility is now barely disguised, and makes light of Polonius‘s murder with word games.He also pretends to be thrilled at the idea of sailing for England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.As befits a scene full of anger and dark thoughts, Act IV, scene v brings a repetition of the motif of insanity, this time through the character of Ophelia, who has truly been driven mad by the death of her father.Shakespeare has demonstrated Ophelia‘s chaste dependence on the men in her life;after Polonius‘s sudden death and Hamlet‘s subsequent exile, she finds herself abruptly without any of them.In the final scene, the violence, so long delayed, erupts with dizzying speed.Characters drop one after the other, poisoned, stabbed, and, in the case of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, executed, as the theme of revenge and justice reaches its conclusion in the moment when Hamlet finally kills Claudius.In the moments before the duel, Hamlet seems peaceful, though also quite sad.Throughout this drama, maybe I do not have enough ability to appreciate it absolutely;I learn that people will feel at sea at times, but we must keep up our spirits to struggle and find a correct way to strive.

第三篇：Hamlet 哈姆雷特 中英對照劇本

Hamlet 第一幕

scene 1

艾爾西諾，城堡前的露臺

人物：Francisco、Bernardo、Horatio Francisco at his post, enter to him Bernardo.（弗蘭西斯科立臺上守望，勃那多自對面上）B：Who’s there? F: Long live the king!B: Bernardo? F: Yes.B: It’s twelve o’clock now.Get to bed, Francisco.F: For this relief much thanks, It’s bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.謝謝你來替我，天冷得厲害，我心里也老不舒服。B: Have you had quiet guard? 你守在這兒，一切都很安靜嗎？ F: Not a mouse stirring.一只小老鼠也不見走動。

B: Well, Say, What, is Horatio there? 喂，——?。』衾褚瞾砹?。

Horatio: A piece of him.有這么一個他。

B: What, has this thing appeared again? 什么！這東西今晚又出現過了嗎？ F：What are you talking about？

Horatio： Keep silence!Look, where it come again!（鬼混上）B: Look it not like the dead king? Mark it, Horatio.他不是很像已故的國王嗎？ 你看，霍拉旭。（雞叫，鬼混退）

Horatio：Most like，it makes me feel wonder and scare.I think we should tell our young Hamlet.好像??！它讓我感動恐懼和害怕。我認為我們應該告訴我們年輕的哈姆雷特。F&B: Yes.（退下）

Scene 2 城堡中的大廳

The old king Hamlet’s the memory be green , the King Claudius was took over his right, and then married with the Queen.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.殿下，我是來參加您的父王的葬禮的。

Hamlet: Please don’t mock me, I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!My father!—— I think I seem to see my father.請你不要取笑，我想你是來參加我的母后的婚禮的。我寧愿在天上看見我最痛恨的仇人，也不愿看到那樣的一天！我的父親，我仿佛看見我的父親。Horatio: Where, my lord? Hamlet: In my mind’s eye, Horatio.在我心靈的眼睛里。

Horatio: My lord, I think I saw him yester night.Hamlet: The king my father!Where did you see him? Horatio: My lord, upon the platform where we watched.Hamlet: I will watch the platform tonight, I think he will appear again.Scene3 露臺

（哈姆雷特、霍拉旭上）

Hamlet： It’s very cold.(搓手)What time is it now? Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve.(東張西望)Look, my lord, it comes!(鬼混出現,向哈姆雷特招手)Hamlet：Where will you lead me? Tell me!I’ll go no further.(跟上前)Horatio: No, do not go with it.(停在原地)Ghost ：Listen to me.Hamlet: I will.Ghost: I’m your father’s spirit.Thou noble youth, the snake that did poisoned your father is now wears his crown.And he was married with my dear wife.我是你父親的亡魂。好孩子，那毒害你父親的蛇，頭上戴著王冠呢。他現在還和我親愛的妻子結婚了。Hamlet： My uncle!Ghost: Yes, you should take revenge for me.是的，正是他，你要為我報仇。

Hamlet: I swore I will revenge against the men who murdered you.我發誓我會為你報仇的。

Ghost： It was getting light and shapes were more distinguishable，I’m leaving.Remember me.(下)天亮了，我要走了。要記得我。Hamlet: Rest, rest, poor spirit.安息吧，可憐的靈魂。

第二幕

Scene 1 波格涅斯家中 One day, Ophelia saw Hamlet with his doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stocking fouled, ungarter’d ,and down-gyved to his ancle, pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purportas if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors.She was frightened，and she told her father Polonius.一天，奧菲利亞看見哈姆萊特的上身的衣服完全沒有扣上扣子，頭上也不帶帽子，他的襪子上沾著污泥，沒有鞋帶，一直垂到腳踝上，他的臉色像他的襯衫一樣白，他的膝蓋互相碰撞，他的神氣是那樣凄慘，好像他剛從地獄里逃了出來。她被嚇壞了，然后告訴了她的父親。

Polonius: Mad for your love? Ophelia: My lord, I don’t know, but truly, I do fear it.父親，我不知道，可是我想也許是的。

Polonius: Come, go with me, I will tell the king, it must be a crazy love.Have you given him any hard words? 跟我來，我要告訴王上，這一定是一場瘋狂的戀愛，你最近和他說過什么讓他難堪的話沒有？

Ophelia: No, my good lord, but, as you did command, I did refuse his inviting and denied his access to me.沒有，父親，可是我已經遵從您的命令，拒絕他的邀請，并且不允許他來見我。Polonius: That had made him mad.Come, go we to the king.（同下）

Scene 2 王后寢宮前

Polonius told the king that Hamlet was mad, the king plans to arrange Hamlet’s friends and Ophelia to probe if he is mad.At last, they told the king that Hamlet was a mad man.Then the king ask the queen to educate Hamlet.波洛涅斯把一切告訴了國王，國王決定派哈姆雷特的朋友們以及奧菲利亞去試探他是否瘋了。最后，他們告訴國王，哈姆雷特瘋了。國王要求王后去教育哈姆雷特。

King Claudius: I don’t like him.I pray you , bring him to England.His existence will threat my crown.我不喜歡他，請你們和他一起去英國吧，他的存在會威脅我的王位。

Guildenstern: We will package our luggage as soon as possible, most holy and religious fear it is to keep those many bodies safe that live and feed upon your majesty.（下）

我們就去準備起來，許多人的安危都寄托在陛下身上，這種顧慮是最圣明不過的。Polonius: My lord, Hamlet is going to his mother’s closet;I’ll convey myself behind the curtain to hear the process.Fare you well, my lord, I’ll call upon you before you go to bed, and tell you what I know.陛下，哈姆雷特去了王后的寢宮，我現在就去躲在帷幕后面，聽他們怎么說。再會，陛下，在您未睡以前，我還要來看您一次，把我所探聽到的事情告訴您。King Claudius: Thanks, dear my lord.(下)（王后及波格涅斯上）Polonius: He’s coming.I’ll stood behind the curtain, pray you, be round with him.Hamlet：（上）Mother, mother, mother.Queen: I’ll warrant you, fear me not, withdraw, I hear him corning.（波格涅斯下，躲在帷幕后。）

包在我身上，你放心吧，快躲起來，我聽見他來了。Hamlet: Now, mother, what’s the matter.Queen： Hamlet, you have your father offended.哈姆雷特，你已經大大得罪你父親啦。Hamlet: Mother, you have my father offended.母親，你已經大大得罪我母親啦。

Queen: Come, come, you answer with a wicked tongue.來，來，不要用這種胡說八道的話回答我。

Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.去，去，不要用這種胡說八道的話問我。Queen: Oh, Hamlet, have you forgot me? Hamlet: No, I didn’t forget you.You’re the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife;and would it were not so!You’re my mother.不，我怎么會忘記你，你是王后，你的丈夫的兄弟的妻子，你又是我母親，但愿你不是。

Queen： What you said is so cruel for me, you’re my son forever.Hamlet: Come，come, sit down, I will set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.（與王后拉拉扯扯）

來來來，坐下來不要動，我要把一面鏡子放在你面前，讓你看一看你自己的靈魂。Queen: What will you do? You will not murder me? Help, help!Polonius（站起身大喊）What!Help, help!Hamlet:（拔劍）Who’s there!A rat? I’ll kill you!（刺向波格涅斯）（波格涅斯倒地）

Queen: Dear me!What are you doing? Hamlet: I don’t know.Is it the king? Queen: Oh.How cruel you are!

旁白：After Polonius’s death, Hamlet was send to England, and Ophelia was affected by the stimulus.One day, she walked along the river, and was so sad that she didn’t keep her eyes on her the road, and was dropped into the river accidentally.At the same time, Hamlet was escape from England and attended her funeral.During the funeral, Hamlet met Ophelia’s brother, Laertes.Laertes was angry with Hamlet, he think his father and sister’s death was caused by Hamlet, he want to revenge for them, so he challenged his rival to a duel with Hamlet.波格涅斯死后，哈姆雷特被遣送至英國，而奧菲利亞為她父親的死受到了刺激，有一天，她走在河邊，因為太過悲傷而沒有留意腳下，不慎墜河身亡。在那時，哈姆雷特剛好秘密回到丹麥，剛好遇上奧菲利亞的葬禮。在葬禮上，他看見了奧菲利亞的哥哥雷歐提斯。雷歐提斯認為父親和妹妹的死都是哈姆雷特造成的，因此，要求和哈姆雷特決斗。

第三幕

（一張桌子被侍從們排開, 鼓號齊響后一隊軍官持墊魚貫而入。）

Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, & c 國王、皇后、雷爾提、奧斯力克、與眾朝臣入。眾侍從持劍入。

KING CLAUDIUS：Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.來, 哈姆雷特,來握這支手。

（KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's）（把雷爾提的手放在哈姆雷特的手中）

HAMLET：Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;who killed you father? Hamlet, his madness.請原諒我，是我做錯了。是誰殺了你父親呢？是哈姆雷特的瘋癥干的。

LAERTES：I’m satisfied in nature, whose motive, in this case ,should stir me most to my revenge ,But now I’m very satisfied because you can duel with me.But till that time, I do receive your offered love like love, And will not wrong it.按理講這件事情我的感情應該是激動我復仇的主要力量，但是現在你能和我決斗我已經很滿足了，我接受你道歉的誠意。

HAMLET ：I embrace it freely.Give us the foils.Come on.我樂意的接受此言,取劍來罷!LAERTES：Come , one for me.（給我也來一把）

HAMLET ：I'll be your foil, Laertes, Your skill must make you like a star in the darkest night.雷歐提斯，我的劍術荒廢已，這一定會襯得你像最黑暗的夜里一顆耀眼的明星，相比之下，一定更顯得你的本領高強。

LAERTES You mock me, sir.先生取笑了!KING CLAUDIUS ： Give them the foils, young Orica.Cousin Hamlet, You know the wager?拿劍來給他們罷, 奧斯力克。哈姆雷特愛侄, 你懂得賭規嗎? HAMLET ：Very well, my lord.懂得, 主公。

KING CLAUDIUS：I do not fear it;I have seen you both, But since he is bettered, we have therefore odds.我并不為此憂慮;我曾領教過你們二位的劍技,既然他的實力近來大有進步, 所以他按賭規應讓你幾招。

LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see another.{發覺他拿的不是毒劍} 這柄太重了, 讓我試試另一把。

HAMLET：This adapt me well.These foils have all a length? They prepare to play（揮耍他的劍）這柄很適合我。這些劍都是一般長嗎? OSRIC ： Ay, my good lord.是的, 我的好殿下。

KING CLAUDIUS: Set me the stoops of wine upon that table.If Hamlet give the first or second hit, Or quit in answer of the third exchange, Let all the battlements their ordnance fire, and in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings.Come, begin.And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.請把這盅酒擺在那桌上，倘若哈姆雷特擊中第一或第二回, 或在第三回合里取得勝利而停賽, 那么, 炮臺之炮將一齊鳴放, 并將在杯中投入一顆珍珠,它比我國四位先王皇冠上所戴之珍珠還更名貴。來, 開始罷!裁判們, 請看好。HAMLET：Come on, sir.LAERTES：Come, my lord.They play(比劍開始)HAMLET : One.LAERTES: No.HAMLET: Judgment.OSRIC: A hit, a very palpable hit.LAERTES: Well;again.KING CLAUDIUS : Stay;give me drink.Hamlet, this pearl is yours;here’s to your health.Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within, Give him the cup.稍候, 把酒給我。{自己先喝一大口}哈姆雷特, 這顆珍珠是屬于你的, 祝你建康!{投毒藥于杯中} HAMLET: I'll play this bout first;set it by a while.Come.(They play)Another hit;what say you? LAERTES:A touch, a touch, I do confess.輕微的碰了一下，我承認。KING CLAUDIUS: Our son shall win.QUEEN GERTRUDE : He's fat, and lack of breath.Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub you brows;The queen carouses to you fortune, Hamlet.(王后舉起酒杯，朝著哈姆萊特)他有點胖，缺少呼吸新鮮空氣。這里，哈姆雷特，拿上我的手帕，擦擦你的眉毛，王后為你的幸運痛飲。HAMLET：Good madam!KING CLAUDIUS：Gertrude, do not drink.QUEEN GERTRUDE：I will, my lord;I pray you, forgive me.KING CLAUDIUS ：It is the poisonous cup : it is too late.(悄悄說)HAMLET：I dare not drink yet, madam;by and by.QUEEN GERTRUDE：Come, let me wipe you face.LAERTES：My lord, I'll hit him now.KING CLAUDIUS：I do not think so.HAMLET：Come, for the third.LAERTES： come on.They play OSRIC ： Nothing, neither way.兩邊都沒擊中。LAERTES：Have at you now!表演：（雷爾提在亂中趁亂，刺哈姆雷特一劍，哈姆雷特因被雷爾提偷襲，哈姆萊特所以怒火填胸, 持劍猛攻。一陣混亂中, 雙方的劍都落在地上，然後各方把對方的劍撿起）

KING CLAUDIUS：Part them;they are angry.快把他們分開，他們都處于憤怒狀態。HAMLET：No, come, again.（QUEEN GERTRUDE falls）王后倒下 OSRIC ： Look to the queen there.HORATIO：They bleed on both sides.How is it, my lord? OSRIC ：What was happen Laertes? LAERTES： Osric;I am just killed with mine own treachery.HAMLET：How does the queen? KING CLAUDIUS：She swoons to see bleed.她見血就暈過去了

QUEEN GERTRUDE：No, no, the drink, the drink,--OH, my dear Hamlet, The drink, the drink!Dies（王后死）

HAMLET：close the door, and arrest the king.(然后哈姆萊特用毒箭刺向王上)All Treason!treason!（眾人起哄，叛國、叛國）KING CLAUDIUS:O, yet defend me, friends;I am hurt.HAMLET: You deserve it.KING CLAUDIUS, Dies（國王死）

LAERTES: Sorry my lord, it’s all my fault.Please forgive me.Dies（雷歐提斯死）

HAMLET : o ,I die, Horatio;tell the Fortinbras what happened here.(哈姆雷特死)Horatio: Yes, I will.Enter Fortinbras and others.旁白（Horatio told everything to Fortinbras, and the Fortinbra took over the crown，and control the country.音樂起

Ending

第四篇：Comments on Hamlet 對哈姆雷特的評價(英文版)

Comments on Hamlet

The play Hamlet is written by William Shakespeare, the greatest drama as well as the greatest poet in the world literature in The English Renaissance.Hamlet, one of the four tragedies among Shakespeare’s lifetime works, is generally regarded as his most popular play on the stage, for it has the philosophical exploration of life and death.The play opens with Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is the leading role, appearing in a mood of world-weariness occasioned by his father’s recent death and by his mother’s hasty remarriage with Claudius, his father’s brother.While encountering his father’s ghost, Hamlet is informed that Claudius has murdered his father and then taken over both his father’s throne and wisdow, Hamlet has strong revenge wish.Thus, Hamlet began to seek revenge for his father.But Hamlet has none of the single-minded blood lust of the earlier revengers.It is not because he is incapable of action, but because the cast of his mind is so speculative, so questioning, and so contemplative that action ,when it finally comes, seem almost like defeat, dimishing rather than adding to the statue of the hero.One side is murdered his father's tooth pain, father dead sound collection, the other side is the life value of serious thought, born with a melancholy temperament.Hamlet lies between the two hard wander.Trapped in a nightmare world of spying, testing and plotting, and apparently bearing the intolerate burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact and fiction, language and action.Hamlet viewed everything with suspicion: human hypocrisy, heaven 's injustice, finally, finally reached this suspicion state vertex : “ to be or not to be”.His life is one of constant role-playing, examing the nature of action only to deny its possibility, for he is too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger.Hamlet once is an optimistic, happy prince, while becomes heavyhearted after his father’s death and mother’s remarriage.It rightly turns out a usual saying that a person’s characteristic change up to the circumstances to be right.For instance, Hamlet’s remarks “to be or not to be , that’s the question.” is constantly been quoted when modern individuals are hard to make a hard decision whether to give up or not.The personality decides destiny, this is the truth.The tragedy of the tragic fate of his character buried a foreshadowing.In this character, ideas he was trying to torment revenge.He became the full vengeance.And all this leads him to weak mother mood is, on the beloved woman to pay no heed, leading him to kill lover’s father, led to his eventual fall into the trap set by the enemies.Finally, the desire for revenge is finally achieved, but all good things are broken: Hamlet's lofty ideals and high aspirations, love like life, mother fragile existence.The ending is miserable, all the main characters die, while it deserves thinking deeply.This is a tragedy, with its roots in the Hamlet irresolute and hesitant character, this is the tragic character.Hamlet gives us a great touch, in his character, Hamlet has created a human tragedy.Reading Hamlet is a quiet valuable experience in which I understand a lot.

第五篇：Hamlet(哈姆雷特)教學課案

The tragedy of Hamlet/ Prince of Hamlet/(more simply)

Hamlet

Plot:

The play, set in Denmark, recounted the story of Prince Hamlet’s revenge.Young Hamlet, prince of Denmark, came home from boarding school to find his father, King Hamlet, dead.To make matters worse, he did not get the throne as his uncle, Claudius, had married Hamlet’s mother Gertrude and taken the kingship.Hamlet was invited by his father’s ghost, who told him it was Claudius did the murder and that Hamlet must revenge for him.The rest of the play involved Hamlet’s pursuit of evidence and of an opportunity to kill the new king.And finally he succeeded.Background information:

In that time, bourgeois democratic thought won support among many people.The advanced idea was in great contrast with the old feudal system.The play Hamlet reflected the social reality of that time.What’s more, Shakespeare expressed his humanism idea and his concern for the future of the people.In fact, during that time, because of the distant between ideal and reality, Shakespeare’s writings had transferred from glorifying humanism into criticizing the reality.Now, let’s analyze the play in detail.Hamlet had a tragic life.In fact, his life is not to be like that.It was he who chose his own life.In other words, he can live his life without sorrow and anxiety;however, he chose to explode the truth of his father’s death.When the truth was exposed, the only thing filling his mind was revenge.So what are the leading factors forcing him to revenge? I think the first thing was love and loyalty.As a matter of fact, love and loyalty ran through the play from the beginning to the end.That is to say all what happened are connected with love and loyalty.Details:

Love:

1.between Hamlet and Ophelia

2.between the dead king and his Queen

Disloyalty:

1.Ophelia betrayed Hamlet

2.the Queen betrayed the dead King

Loyalty:

1.Hamlet to his father

2.Horatio to Hamlet

Analysis of major characters

Hamlet:

Melancholy – Father’s death

His disappoint with his mother

Impulsive – When he stabs Polonius through a curtain without even checking

who he is

No premeditating through the whole pay

Looking down upon women – His words often indicate his disgust with all

distrust of women in general

Hesitation – He thinks a lot before action

To be or not to be

On finding out the murder

Claudius:

Shrewd – kill he brother and get the throne

Lustful

Corrupt politician – always have parties

Skillful at language speech – persuading to kill Hamlet

Gertrude:

Desire for station and affection

Use a man to fulfill her instinct for self-preservation

Fragile/ brave – former king’s death

Hamlet’s madness

Becoming the wife of Claudius

To know the plot and understand the characters better, we rehearsed a fragment of the play.The script is on the last page of the plan paper

The play Hamlet reflected a lot of themes.We mainly analyzed two themes: madness and gender discrimination.Madness:

In Hamlet, Shakespeare incorporates a theme of madness with two characters: Ophelia & Hamlet.Ophelia is definitely mad, while Hamlet is frequently disputed.Some think his madness is all an act, but some think over the course of the play, his mental state deteriorates to a point where it is accurate to call him truly mad.Different people hold different view upon this issue.And the different understanding of Hamlet’s madness stems from different plots of two important plots in the play.One is(act 3 scene1), after he say he did love Ophelia, and he reverses and resists not, even insults his lovely girl.Another is(act3 scene4)his murder of his uncle in his mother’s bedroom even without knowing who it is hiking there.Some people think those impulsive actions prove to be true mad, here, I want to share my understanding.In my opinion, it is all an act.First, after his pretending of madness, Hamlet becomes a very alert man, watchful to everybody.He always doubted somebody is tempting him, so he behaves like this.Second, his murder of his uncle is really very impulsive, but this can not prove his true madness.He shows his sadness and regrets after he knows what he actually does.There is also much textual evidence in this play.One is after he sees Ophelia’s suicide;he shows his sorrow, if he is actually mad,how can explain those painful words.Another is in the last part, he killed his uncle, if he is actually mad, and how can he recognize his enemy.Above those, I can safely draw a conclusion that hamlet’s madness is all an act.Gender discrimination

“frailty, the name is woman,” so said Hamlet in this play.This attitude stems from his disgust to his mother’s sexuality and seeming unfaithfulness to his dead father.When Claudius warns Hamlet that his grief is “unmanly”, Hamlet refers to himself as a promiscuous woman but not a promiscuous man.This shows that Hamlet is a pure sexist.This outlook eventually spills over include all women, especially the hapless Ophelia, who has virtually no power to control any thing, even over her own body.At the same time, Hamlet’s association between women and deception also shows that he is a hesitative person.Hamlet’s attitude towards women also shows that at that time women’s social status was very low.Evaluation of the play of Hamlet

The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest and moral corruption.Hamlet is one of the most quoted works in the English language.There is a story of some people who read Hamlet for the first time and said,” I don’t see why people admire that play so.It is nothing but a bunch of quotations strung together.” From that we can see how frequently quoted and widely spread it is in the modern world.And it is often included on lists of the world’s greatest literature.It also reverberate through the writing of later centuries.Adapted movies:

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1948, 1990, 1996, 2000, 2009

The 1948 version was recognized as the most classical version

In contrast with other versions, most of us will like the 1990 version.Though highly commercialized, it sticks the most closely to the original work of Shakespeare.