FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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the mystery of death
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revenge
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madness
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the central themes in Hamlet is action versus inaction. Hamlet is the epitome of inaction in many ways. He is asked to take action (to kill King Claudius ) by the Ghost, but he struggles to do so. He debates his options and hatches a plan to verify the Ghost’s story first.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare around 1600, is a tragedy that explores themes of friendship, madness, and revenge.
Detailed explanation-3: -One can name them as themes but it should be remembered that all each Hamlet theme interacts and resounds with all the others. Here are brief accounts of a selection of the major Hamlet themes of revenge, corruption; religion, politics, appearance and reality, and women.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the theme of morality versus desire presents itself in its characters such as Hamlet, Claudius and Ophelia; Hamlet who is completely trapped in his own hatred, Claudius who is envious enough to commit murder, and Ophelia who is merely trying to obey orders.
Detailed explanation-5: -There are three plots in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: the main revenge plot and two subplots involving the romance between Hamlet and Ophelia, and the looming war with Norway.