Hamlet Help?

Question

You see for Brit Lit i have to write a critical analysis of Hamlet and i dont know how to start it and what i should put in it (topics) can someone help me

well a critical analysis consists of Background information to help your readers understand the nature of the work,Summary or description of the work ,Interpretation and/or evaluation

i have to do it on the play itself

Answer 1

topics can be:
-hamlet's indesicive nature
-whether he really was mad or it was all a plot
-emotional residual of his father's murder
-evolving feelings toward Ophelia through the play

Answer 2

I'm with the first two: a critical analysis of that play would fill a book. (It's already filled several.) So, if your instructor will let you, pick a narrower topic, such as Hamlet's tragic flaw. Or the use of verse vs. prose in Hamlet's speeches. I've observed that as a rule, when one of Shakespeare's high-status characters in tragedy speaks in prose, he's lowering himself in some way--and Hamlet speaks in prose when he's feigning insanity. So with whom does he speak in verse, and when? When does he switch from one to another in the same scene?

Answer 3

An analysis of the character Hamlet or the play? Can you narrow your focus? Such as, can you examine the relationship between Hamlet and Polonius? Or compare and contrast Laretes with Hamlet?