1, Hamlet

Hamlet is a Danish prince of noble birth He was respected and well educated since he was a child. A carefree life makes Hamlet a pure and kind idealist and perfectionist. In his eyes, everything is beautiful. He doesn't know the dark and ugly side of the world. He believes in the truth, goodness and beauty of life and yearns for life.

However, when his father died, his mother married his uncle immediately, and his father told Hamlet in his dream that Claudius had killed him. Between ideal and reality, he fell into a deep contradiction, his outlook on life changed, his personality became complicated and suspicious, and at the same time he was full of hatred and could not vent.

Great changes also let Hamlet see the reality and darkness of society. He began to doubt family and love, and became hesitant and desperate. He began to become extreme, farther and farther away from everyone.

2. Claudie

The current king of Denmark. He is Hamlet's uncle and succeeded to the throne after his brother died. The ghost of the old king told Hamlet that he was the murderer of himself. He deserved it, and finally died of revenge from his nephew.

Claudius is an ugly character in Shakespeare's works. For power, he killed his own brother, married his sister-in-law, and gained the status of monarch; At the same time, in order to cover up his crimes, he designed to kill Hamlet, and at the same time created public opinion in his favor. He is an extremely selfish man and a schemer.

He didn't intend to kill Hamlet until he thought he didn't know the truth. He just wanted to make Hamlet depressed by the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother, so that he could get farther and farther away from people and lose his influence, thus consolidating his position.

Then, after he knew that Hamlet had got the truth about his father's death, he began to kill Hamlet by various means. If a plan fails, he will try again. The wicked got what they deserved and were stabbed to death by Hamlet. Claudius' plot was one after another. He is very careful for fear of making mistakes.

He is a very insidious person, but he never shows it. He is a hidden thug. He killed his brother and succeeded to the throne. He wanted to kill Hamlet, but praised Hamlet in front of everyone. Claudius's character is bourgeois image, not feudal monarch. In his eyes, his own interests are above everything else, and he can do whatever it takes to get them.

3. Chotrud

Queen of Denmark, the prince's biological mother. After old Hamlet died, she married Claudius. In Shakespeare's time, this relationship was regarded as incest, which caused Hamlet's hatred. She drank the poisoned wine that Claudius preset for Hamlet by mistake and died on the spot.

Gertrude had a great influence on Hamlet. Hamlet's initial pain was not because of his father's death (he didn't know that his father was murdered at that time), but more because his beloved mother remarried his uncle just after his father's death. Jotrude is a woman who doesn't know what love is. All she needs is a man who can give her a stable life and queen status.

She doesn't love the late king, lacks the loyalty of women to love, and can't stand the temptation. She can only pretend to be virtuous from the outside to cover up her betrayal of the late king. There was no alternative route open to her. She has no ability to live and think independently, and there is no personal reason. All she has is vanity. She hurt her children for her position and court life, and for her own desires, and she didn't wake up until she died.

4.leontes

Polonius' son. Listen to Claudius' trick and compare the sword with Hamlet. Laertes' sword is a poisonous sword. In the fierce competition, they won each other's swords, and Hamlet left a blood stain on Laertes, so Laertes fell to the ground.

Laertes is a narrow-minded and self-respecting person. Although he is kind by nature, he can't stand incitement and agitation. His kind nature can still be affirmed. Judging from his previous rounds of confrontation with Hamlet, he has always felt guilty. But just when he couldn't stand the incitement, Claudius lost the ability of independent thinking when he was stimulated a little, thus stabbing Hamlet.

But before he died, he woke up and told the truth, which was his repentance, but it was too late, and he had no chance to start again.

5. Ophelia

Polonius' daughter. She and Hamlet both fell in love, but all kinds of resistance warned the prince that their political status made them hopeless. As part of Hamlet's crazy revenge plan, she was mercilessly abandoned by him, and her father's death made her insane. Finally, she got dressed and drowned in a stream full of flowers.

Ophelia is one of the most beautiful female representatives in Shakespeare's works. She is born beautiful and has a very beautiful appearance. At the same time, she has pure feelings and a kind heart. Hamlet cursed Ophelia because of her father's death and her mother's remarriage, but she really thought that Hamlet scolded her only because he was crazy, so she felt sad and sorry.

Hamlet didn't know that his venting would cause the girl's sadness and even despair. When Ophelia learned that her father was killed by Hamlet, she couldn't bear such a blow and finally committed suicide.

Ophelia is a typical representative of feudal aristocratic girls. Deeply influenced by feudal society, she abides by feudal morality, is conservative and weak, and takes family as the center.

Although she worshipped Hamlet, she dared not approach Hamlet at the instigation of her father and brother, and was influenced by her father and brother to get in touch with Hamlet for information. The moral concept of feudal society and her feudal educational thought made her absolutely obey her father and brother. Ophelia didn't appear many times in the play, but she played an important role in promoting the development of the plot.

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The Creation Background of Hamlet

At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, Britain is in the transitional period from feudal system to capitalist system, which is a major turning point in the historical process of Britain.

During the prosperous period of Elizabeth's rule, the bourgeoisie supported the kingship, and the kingship only used the bourgeoisie. The two sides did not object, but also formed a temporary alliance. Due to the relatively stable political situation, social productive forces have developed rapidly. Although the development of this new capitalist production relationship accelerated the collapse of feudal society, it still relied on the cruel exploitation of farmers.

After James I succeeded to the throne, he further promoted autocratic centralization, and the resistance of the bourgeoisie and the working people was severely suppressed. The further intensification of social contradictions fundamentally shook the feudal order and prepared the conditions for the British bourgeois revolution in the17th century. Shakespeare's creation profoundly reflects the art of this era.

Hamlet reflects the social reality of1the end of the 6th century1the beginning of the 7th century through the history of Denmark in the 8th century. Britain at that time, as mentioned above, was an "upside down chaotic era", and Hamlet was "the epitome of this era". The struggle between Hamlet and Claudius in the play symbolizes the struggle between the emerging bourgeois humanists and the representatives of reactionary feudal kingship.

Through this struggle, the work reflects the contradiction between the British humanistic ideal and the dark feudal reality, exposes the desperate power struggle between the British feudal aristocratic landlord class and the emerging bourgeoisie, and criticizes the criminal acts of kingship and feudal evil forces.

The Renaissance brought Europe into an era of "human" awakening, and people's faith in God began to waver. It was a fashion at that time to "do whatever you want" under the banner of "personality liberation". On the one hand, it is the great liberation of thought, which has promoted the great development of social civilization; On the other hand, especially in the late Renaissance, it was followed by rampant selfish desires and social chaos.

Faced with such a passionate and chaotic era, Shakespeare, who reached middle age, did not indulge in optimism and romance brought by humanistic ideals as in his early years, but showed deep thinking about the hidden dangers behind ideals and progress. Hamlet is just an aesthetic photo of his chaotic society full of hidden dangers. ?

The Questioning of Life in Hamlet

The core problem of Hamlet lies in the thinking of life and death. The scene of the cemetery at the beginning of the first scene of the fifth act is a wonderful pen of genius, and it is also the finishing touch to interpret Hamlet's thinking about life as a lonely man. He said to the skeleton in the hand of the grave digger, "Now this donkey may be playing with a politician's head;"

This guy may really be a dishonest politician before his death. ""From this fickle fate, we should be able to see through the essence of life. Is the growth of life just to become these bones and make people play wooden games? "

Finally, we look back at Hamlet in the second scene of the second act, facing Rosen Glanz and Gierden Stein, who were sent by Claudius to spy on his inner secrets. He confessed that he was bored and lost interest in everything. "The mood is so depressed that in my eyes, this beautiful land carrying everything is just a barren and barren promontory."

Then, he said the famous monologue: "What a great masterpiece human beings are! What a noble reason! What an infinite ability! How elegant and dignified the manners are! In behavior, it is so like an angel! Intellectually, it is so like a god! The essence of the universe! The spirit of all things is long! " Yes, he strongly praised human beings themselves. But what he wants to ask is: "What is the essence in this dust?"

Today, a lonely person in life will think so and ask such a question: as the "essence of the universe" and the "spirit of all things", human beings are just fleeting dust in the infinite time and space of the universe and all things. Or in other words, thinkers in human beings must be lonely. In this sense, Hamlet is not alone, and we will always be with him.

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