Hamlet as a tragic hero
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- O, my prophetic soul! My uncle!In this scene Hamlets father comes back as a ghost and tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him. Hamlet is saying that he knew that Claudius killed his father, like he was able to predict it. (hubris)
- "As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on" This is an example of Hamlets error of judgement. Hamlet is going crazy and is starting to make bad decisions. His choice is causing him to be misguided. (hamartia)
- “Now might I do it pat, now he is a-praying, And now I’ll do ’t.” (3.3, 77-78)Hamlet sees Claudius praying in the church and has the chance to kill him. He chooses not to though because he's trying to repent his sins. Hamlet does not want to risk Claudius going to Heaven if he kills him while in the presence of the Lord. This scene is an example of peripeteia because his change in mindset is unexpected and from earlier actions, where we expect the maddened scholar to kill the king at any costs.
- “How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge...I do not know Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,” Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do ’t. Examples gross as Earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge,” (4.4, 34-35//46-50)
- In this quote Hamlet comes to the bitter realization of his own fatal flaw, waiting. After many failed attempts at revenge and success, and being left defeated, the prince finally understands that the only way to be successful is being a man of action. As he compares himself to Fortinbras, the foil of himself, he shows his understanding of just how successful he could have been, if he would have simply acted. (anagnorisis)
- “O, I die, Horatio! The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England.” (5.2, 389-391)
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- During this scene, Hamlet is stabbed by Laertes and quickly spirals into his death. Laertes murders Hamlet in hopes to seek vengeance after the prince kills both his father and sister. Hamlet's inevitable death is aquitted to his overarching ignorance and pride that leads to his rash decisions and eventual madness.(nemesis)
- “—the rest is silence.” (5.2, 395)
- This quote reflects on Hamlet's last seconds before death. The last words reveal his understanding and acceptance of death and his final desperate act in trying to comfort himself. Throughout the play, Hamlet is characterized as an emotionally corrupt antagonist. Yet, in these last lines, we are made to feel pity for the dying enemy. That ultimately unveils us to see him as human, just like ourselves. (catharsis)
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