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Mi sono trovato a studiare Amleto per la scuola e fare un riassunto mi ha aiutato e ho pensato di postarlo in quanto poteva essere d'aiuto anche a qualcun altro. Se c'è qualche errore, ditemelo poichè l'ho scritto a mano ed è possibile che c siano errori d battitura.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
The Play
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most famous play. the story of the Danish prince was well-known to the Shakespeare's contemporaries, its popularity is constant through the centuries and its story is one of the most frequently filmed. Hamlet is the closest of the Shakespeare's tragedies to modern sensibility. The doubts and indecisions of the hero are familiar to modern man, equally tormented by a lack of certainties and the inability to communicate.
Hamlet indecisions must be palced against the background of the "revenge tragedy". Hamlet shouold have sought revenge as soon as possible, but he doesn't do so. He is full of hesitations and in his famous monologues he analyzes the meaning of life, the idea of love and death and he debates whether the action is preferable to inaction , and life to suicide. Hamlet is also considered the tragedy of will and in it, thought kills action. Modern criticism has also given a psychoanalytical reading of the play: according to it, the hesitant and ambiguous behaviour showed by Hamlet is an exemplification of the Oedipus complex.
The story
The king of Denmark is dead and the queen Getrude has almost soon married the king's brother, Claudius. The dead's king son Hamlet meets his father's ghost and the ghost tells him that Claudius has murdered him and asks Hamlet to take revenge. His brilliant, sensitive mind is undecided about what to do and he even contemplates suicide. Hamlet then asks to some actors to show a scene similar to the scene of his father's murder, in order to observe the king's reaction.The king, when sees the scene, is confused and this confirms the ghost's revelation. But by mistake, Hamlet kills Polonius, the father of ophelia, whom Hamlet loves. Ophelia becomes crazy and drowns herself. Then Polonius' son Laertes swears revenge and Claudius uses him to murder Hamlet. A match between Laertes and Hamlet is arranged. Laertes, adviced by the king, uses a poisoned sword. In this duel Hamlet is killed, but before that he mortally wounds laertes and stabs the King. The queen by mistake drinks a cup poisoned by Hamlet and dies.
Focus on the text
The central dilemma, summed up in the famous phrase "To be or not to be", seems to be the choice between action and inaction. But there is more than a personal pratical dilemma involved. Two philosophical positions, unreconciled in Hamlet's monologues, are expressed: one is the Stoic attitude of enduring's life evils and misfortune; the other is the belief that, if necessary, man may end life by suicide . In both cases, life is seen as a battle. Hamlet's choice of words and images shows his profound pessimism. He shows also some general statements on death and life in which he lists characteristic human sufferings and he also examines the thought of life after death. In the end, during his most famous monologue, his resentment at man's incapacity for action is quite obvious.
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