Hamlet as a Tragic Hero
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- Hubris3.4.40
- Nemesis(5.1.285)
- (HAMLET) Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.
- This line shows Hamlet's exessive pride. Hamlet has just killed Polonius, yet he is calling Polonious harsh things and saying his death was his own fault.
- Anagnorisis1.5.45
- Hamarta
- (3.1 soliloquy)
- This soliloquy highlights Hamlet's tragic flaw, his procrastination of planning and action.
- CatharsisLine 3.4.30
- Peripeteia (4.7.180)
- (CLAUDIUS) When in your motion you are hot and dry / (As make your bouts more violent to that end) / And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him / A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,
- In this scene, Claudius and Laertes plan how they're going to kill Hamlet. This is the Peripeteia because during the beginning of the story, Hamlet is trying to kill Claudius, and now it is reversed.
- (HAMLET) I loved Ophelia. Forty Thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
- Ultimately, Hamlet's nemesis was death. He struggled with his father's death, Ophelia's death, and his own.
- (GHOST) The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown.
- (HAMLET) O, my prophetic soul! My uncle!"
- This exchange shows Hamlet's realization of Claudius. Before, Hamlet disliked him because of his swift marriage with Gertrude but now he has even more reason to hate him.
- (POLONIUS) O, I am slain!
- (QUEEN) O, me, what hast thou done?O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
- (HAMLET) Nay I know not. is it the king?
- This is the start of Hamlet's downfall. This is shown in this scene as he stabs Polonious irrationally which sets off the course of events leading to his own death.
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