The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Book Report/Review Example

Hamlet's soliloquy gives the people a difficult but, a challenging puzzle of his feigning insanity. Hamlet's mental and emotional reaction towards the injustice murder of his father pushes him in his depressed and feigning madness. Critics at that time still puzzled and confused of his insanity and soliloquy. Moreover his soliloquy catches the attention of many scholars. According to them, his act of disrupting to himself, expressing aversion with accordance with himself, and exaggerating his own speech are his way of expressing his thought, ideas, and emotions.

However, late scholars such as Charney stated that Hamlet's soliloquy is expression of his own thought and philosophical process. This is his way of showing his terrible grief in the injustice that he experienced. However, some critics consider Hamlet as an intellectual person that is pushed towards ill- fated situations in life Also, critics during the restoration period dislike Ophelia's act of immodesty and arrogance in the flower scene (2007) . Being outrageous to the decision of his mother to marry his uncle, Hamlet finally see and realized his repressed desires for his mother that is, to be in the place of his father beside, his mother.

Sigmund Freud, a known psychoanalysis, has presented explanations about this act of Hamlet. His idea states that Hamlet develops an unconscious oedipal craving towards his mother; he wanted to kill Claudius and take Cauldius' place beside his mother. With his personal intention of repressed longing for his mother, it makes him criticize his actions which eventually remind him that he is no better than Claudius whom he wanted to kill. Hamlet's Delay for Revenge From the very beginning, Hamlet's aim is to avenge the death of his father is clearly revealed in the main plot in response to the tragic death of his father.

On the contrary, when he already has the chance to kill Claudius, he is hesitant to not to do it. For centuries, critics have aroused many questions for such delay. First of all, Shakespeare as well as, Hamlet is aware of such postponement, and Hamlet is not actually delaying it on his part. Many critics in the eighteenth century propose the idea that the delay is essential to make the plot longer, but this does not fit some facts because Shakespeare has no reason to make such postponement. Furthermore, in the nineteenth century, A.W. Schlegel and S.T. Coleridge argue that Hamlet depicts the incapability of a person in his actions because he is philosophizing too much, and that he is aware of the consequences of his actions.

However, Laertes reacts with the death of his father in the opposite way. He deals vengeance in a different way, he becomes unsophisticated and he is prepared to be Cl;adius' instrument to destroy Hamlet. He wanted to kill Hamlet and avenge his father's death no matter what it takes (Chan 2004).Religion's Point of View Catholicism and Protestantism, both played important roles in Hamlet. These two influential religions at that time serve significant references in the plot. The 'ghost' that asked Hamlet to revenge for him is a contradictory to what Catholicism said about death and after death of a certain