Hamlet Moral?

Question

I just saw the movie, the one with Mel Gibson, I haven't read the play yet, but I assume that it's the same with plot and wording. I wanted to ask a question that some of you may think is silly and obscenly odvious. The question it : Why doe's every main charecter, including Hamlet, die at the end? Other then the odvious fact that it was written that way.

Thanks ?:)

Answer 1

Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, who had many of his characters die.

MY guess is that the moral is "Live by the sword, die by the sword"

Answer 2

Every Shakespearean tragedy is divided into five acts, and contains the following six elements:

1. Exposition (starting point):

The exposition describes the mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the play. The time and place will be identified as well as the main characters and their positions, circumstances, and relationships to one another.

2. Complication:

Also sometimes called the initial incident or the exciting force. This event "gets things going." The complication thus begins the conflict which will continue in the play.

3. Rising action:

The series of events which lead up to the climax of the play comprise the rising action. These events provide a progressive intensity of interest for the audience. The rising action will involve more than one act.

4. Climax:

The climax represents the turning point of the play. From this point on, the Shakespearean tragic hero moves toward his inevitable end.

5. Falling action:

The falling action includes those events occurring from the time of the climax up to the hero's death. The episodes will show both advances and declines in the various forces acting upon the hero. Like the rising action, the falling action will involve events in more than one act.

6. The catastrophe: (denouement)

The catastrophe concerns the necessary consequences of the hero's previous actions which usually include the hero's death. In this catastrophe (in most cases) - at least 50% of the main characters are dead and the govenrment briefly collapses but is quickly restored. Macbeth, for example, follows a very similar pattern.

Answer 3

Mel Gibson's Hamlet is abridged, but still pretty good. Watch the Kenneth Brannagh version for a full text and more traditional interperetation.

Everyone dies as a result of literary tragedy. In true tragedy, there is something that could have prevented all the bad things from happening, usually a "fatal flaw" in the main tragic character. In the case of Hamlet, his flaw is his inability to act, and his questioning of his own judgement and resolve.

What happens is that he goes kind of nuts trying to deal with what he has learned from his father's ghost, and in his long hesitation and botched attempts at revenge circumstances spiral out of control.

As a result-Laertes attempts revenge, and Hamlet acts too late, losing his mother, not to mention Ophelia, to whom he was cruel in his borderline madness.

Answer 4

First of all, this film is not quite the same as the play. The text and the plot is very similar, but there are many aspects of the original play that was left out of this version to shorten the running time.

In life, everybody dies. In Hamlet it is no different. There is a justification for the death of every primary character, with the exception of Ophelia. I have never quite understood why she had to die. Perhaps for not honoring the wishes of her father. Or maybe she had to die for attempting self-slaughter.

To take the perspective of Nemesis, the flaw that justifies the death of each character is as follows:

Claudius had to die for obvious reasons, fratricide; Gertrude embodied frailty and didn't have the strength to keep from wedding her dead husband's murderer and brother; Polonius became Claudius's servant thereby aiding the king's assassin; Laertes' mind was clouded with vengeance and he became the co-conspirator of Claudius, so he had to die. Hamlet's flaw is very similar to Laertes', but compounded by the historical notion that those who stand against tyranny usually fall prey to the ambitions of those they stand against, a martyr so to speak. One could also argue that in Hamlet's tempest of vengeance, he provoked the death of all the others which would also be a justification for taking is life. See below for other flaws in Hamlet's character. Adam raises a good point about his inability to act.

Perhaps they all had to die to purge the poison that made the state of Denmark rank.

It is a tragedy. It is terribly romantic. Everyone dies because it makes for a more moving story.

Answer 5

Hamlet was destroyed by his resentment at having been cheated out of his birthright -- the Kingship that had been his father's. And he destroyed others; he disobeyed his father's ghost and destroyed his mother and Ophelia. He's ultimately not a sympathetic figure to anyone who's read the whole play. All this makes it a tragtedy.

Interesting aside: In the anthology, "Ants, Indians, and Little Dinosaurs" an anthropologist reads Hamlet to the elders of an African tribe and gets their comments, in light of similarities between the tribal society and Hamlet's. Article is called "Hamlet in the Bush".

Answer 6

In the words of Ernest Johnson, “the dilemma of Hamlet the Prince and Man” is “to disentangle himself from the temptation to wreak justice for the wrong reasons and in evil passion, and to do what he must do at last for the pure sake of justice…. From that dilemma of wrong feelings and right actions, he ultimately emerges, solving the problem by attaining a proper state of mind.” Hamlet endures as the object of universal identification because his central moral dilemma transcends the Elizabethan period, making him a man for all ages. In his difficult struggle to somehow act within a corrupt world and yet maintain his moral integrity, Hamlet ultimately reflects the fate of all human beings.

Answer 7

before everything, no one extremely commits in Hamlet, aside from the guy who's in value of transforming into specific the duel between Hamlet and Laertes on the tip is basic. everyone else gets ed and killed. So, i do no longer think of is even a topic of the play. it extremely is extremely helpful to learn that out earlier you do in spite of the fact that undertaking or paper you're patently engaged on. lol srry i only observed ur extra info. so which you already kno this.. properly idk what you're able to do yet i think of your instructor is a dumbass. solid success with this component!

Answer 8

first off, remember that this play is entertainment as much as a philosophical tretise, so i would point out that 'revenge plays' were very popular in shakespeare's day, and in fact this material itself was adapted from other popular shows featuring revenge...

secondly, there is a sense of morality in that the dead people all pretty much have it coming to them, including hamlet, who is in fact a murderer as well(stabs polonius, kills laertes in a duel, and poisons claudius with his own drink). Laertes dies because of his conspiracy with claudius to kill hamlet. Claudius dies because of his murderous mechanations in his evil royal plot, and Gertrude is considered adulterous and incestuous by the standards of shakespeare's day. So they all pretty much get what they deserve. The one true 'good guy', Horatio, lives.

Hey, it's for entertainment purposes, remember!

Answer 9

I think because Willie S. just didn't want to write happy stories. Happy stories are boring and they all end the same way, this way, the intriguing thing is 'how do they die". Lets Willie use his imagination.

Answer 10

It's a tragedy, which always ends in death. A comedy always ends in marraige.