Sunday, December 2, 2007

Worldviews of Hamlet

Alright! First off we have the whole issue in becoming the next king. Talk about pressure! He had to deal with it all his life until when he finally got the chance to make a difference, it was all taken away in nothing flat. What a bummer... Oh well! Secondly, he would have inherited the drunken kingdom of Denmark. But in Act I Scene 4 he speaks of how it would be better if there was a breaking of a tradition then a continuation of it. Finally, the influence of his mother and father, the late King Hamlet. There must have been two different ways of raising the poor lad as he grew up, not knowing that his father was to be murdered and his mother marrying his uncle. Lastly, the different worldviews that he was taught as a student while studying with Horatio and the rest of his friends. There must have been some serious conflict with his own worldviews while he was there.

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