Analyze Hamlet (Reading 19.11a and 19.11b) as a tragedy and as a study of a complex character.
What will be an ideal response?
As a tragedy, Hamlet is a revenge play, a relatively formulaic narrative based on revenge of the murder of Hamlet’s father by his uncle Claudius. In a more complex fashion, Hamlet is a study of a contradiction and ambiguity. Hamlet alternately behaves like a raving madman and an intellectual of the most refined sensibility, at once deeply perceptive and blind to the most obvious truths. Even in the company of friends, he is alone with himself, an intensely self-reflective soul tormented by the very act of self-reflection. The contradictions and changes in emotion and thought embodied in his soliloquy (Reading 19.11b) are a measure of this complexity.
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