Hamlet Critical Viewing and Analysis a) In the in which Aphelia returns tokens of love from him (Hamlet), William Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as first as a normal man, but then as Aphelia returns his tokens of love, he seems to enter his ?so-called? state of madness. Shakespeare seems to reflect him as a character that just suddenly hits madness when he is turned down by Aphelia, which is the reason that all the people in the kingdom seem to believe he is mad. Hamlet claims he will pretend be in a state of madness, but in this scene he simply for no reason that Shakespeare presents he goes mad. Shakespeare also does not explain Hamlet?s sudden outburst of madness. This madness of Hamlet?s suddenly arose when Aphelia said, ?My honour?d lord, I know right what you did; ? Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord.? Now up until this line Hamlet acted in a very sane manner, but after she tells him this he seems to loose it. He replied, ?Ha, ha! Are you honest?? Aphelia: ?What mean?s your lordship?? Hamlet: ?That if you honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty? In this line Hamlet seems to be telling Aphelia that her beauty is manipulating.
In this scene Hamlet also goes on to ask about Polonius, and then yells out ?Let all the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in?s own house? While Hamlet is saying all this, what he does not know is that Polonius and the King are spying on Hamlet during this lashing out by Hamlet. Now seeing as how Shakespeare does not seem to tell us at all as to how Hamlet could know that the King was there, watching and listening. Since that Hamlet did not know that they were there, any viewer of this play would not understand Hamlet?s sudden madness and have reason to believe the his feigned madness drives him to actual madness. b) Zeffirelli portrays Hamlet a more then your average person. He seems to display Hamlet as a highly intelligent, quick thinking person. He seems to emphasize Hamlet?s awareness over and over again. In the scene in which Aphelia returns tokens of love from him, Zeffirelli shows Hamlet?s awareness and intuitiveness. Now, in the scene when Aphelia says to Hamlet, ?My honour?d lord, I know right what you did; ? Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord.? and returns his tokens, Hamlet turns away for a split second, and notices a shadow of a person in the top walking by.
The Term Paper on Hamlet – Lucid Summaries of Each Scene
Scene 1:Bernardo relieves Francisco from his watch before the castle. Marcellus arrives with Horatio. Once Francisco has gone, Bernardo and Marcellus discuss with Horatio their encounter with the ghost the previous evening. Horatio is skeptical of their claims. The ghost appears and Horatio tries to question it. The ghost refuses to speak and departs. Marcellus asks why the watch is necessary. ...
At that very moment Hamlet realizes that he is being watched and realizes it?s most probably the king. So at that very moment Hamlet turns around and goes back and says the following things: Aphelia: ?What mean?s your lordship?? Hamlet: ?That if you honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty? In this scene Hamlet also goes on to ask about Polonius, and then yells out ?Let all the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in?s own house? While Hamlet is saying all this, what he does know that Polonius and the King are spying on him during this lashing out by towards Polonius. The whole reasoning behind Hamlets faking this state of madness is that he believes that the King is responsible for the death of his father. And so by saying things that have a double meaning during his ?madness? maybe he will be able to get the King to show some guilt or even break him down until he finally confesses to the murder. Now with that sudden change in Hamlet?s behavior after spotting the shadow he goes into this madness state of his showing to people that he is faking this, only because he knows the ones whom he wants aware of his madness, are aware.
The Essay on Hamlet – Movie Critique
Hamlet - Movie Critique The movie of Hamlet was an excellent, as far as book-movies go. I believe it was produced with focus, reason, and logic. The characters were also portrayed with a good interpretation. There were several changes to the play compared to the book, although the movie was done in such a way that they were not particularly missed, from the movie s point of view. Although, from my ...
C) Zeffirelli?s actions in changing the scene can be justified. First off, the idea of making the shadow of Polonius visible was one which was a good one because it let everyone that was viewing the movie know that Hamlet had not really gone mad but was doing this because he realized he had to keep on playing this role. Secondly, when directors create a movie it is made so that audiences watch the movies, had he not put the Shadow in most people would have believed Hamlet had gone mad, and would not understand how at the end of the movie or in the next scenes be able to reveal all the truth to the people. Third, the shadow also added to how Zeffirelli kept on portraying Hamlet as an intelligent, aware and intuitive character that her was. Zeffirelli had also show this great awareness that Hamlet had when Polonius was talking to Aphelia about not seeing Hamlet and when he picked up as to what was going on. And a fourth reason is that Zeffirelli had to make this movie as entertaining as possible, because that?s what all directors do. They change the script, change the scenes, and just about anything else to make the movie entertaining.
