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Reflection in the Mirror by=
Amirah Gafur &=
nbsp; In life, everyone does certain things that they are not proud of. Many people do bad things for atte=
ntion. Meaning the one they l=
ove, do not pay them enough attention.&nbs=
p; Others do things because they do not like what is happening in hi=
s or her life. Hamlet is this=
person. He does not like how=
certain things have turned out for his family, mainly his mother, and for =
his life. &=
nbsp; In the very beginning of the play, we find out that Hamlet’s moth=
er, Gertrude, married Hamlets uncle Claudius right after his father death.<=
span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Hamlet tells his mother ̶=
0;…you are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife. &=
nbsp; To make matter worse, Hamlet knows the truth. The truth is that Claudius killed his very own brother=
, King Hamlet, who is also Hamlets father.=
Hamlet has pain and anger in his body and blood that is under=
standable. I can understand w=
hy Hamlet would talk about killing his new step-father, but to actually kil=
l him, Hamlet is wrong. Two w=
rongs do not make a right. Ki=
lling someone else will not bring back your love ones. They will pay the pr=
ice, but it is not up to you on how they do. “…and so am I {revenged}. That would be scanned: a villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son=
, this same villain…”2 &=
nbsp; Most men tell a woman that he loves her. They proclaim their love only to find out that the woman do=
es not feel the same way so they take it back. Take for instance, Ophelia greets Hamlet and tries to giv=
e him back some of his affection he gave her. Hamlet tells her that she should never of believed him whe=
n he told her he loved her, and that she was lie to. He tells her, “G=
et thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”3 &=
nbsp; Hamlet is not a just a character. =
; He represents an everyday person.=
In this play, we see him go through sufferings and heartaches=
. Every person goes through t=
hose two main things. It is n=
ot a fairytale, it is life. W=
hether or not you can or can not face it, Hamlet shows you how he dealt wit=
h it.
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; Hamlet shows many of the feelings he has t=
owards life and death. He sees death as something to mourn for, in a respec=
tful way. He sees life as something that’s not to be toyed with. When=
he sees that someone is taking a death far too lightly, he gets a suspicio=
n about whether that person had anything to do with the death, which in tur=
n means that person has taken the deceased’s life as a joke. Througho=
ut the entire play, he constantly shows his feelings about his uncle’=
s, the new king, and his mother’s “brush-off” emotions on=
old King Hamlet’s death. |
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Hamlet’s Thoughts About Life and Death |
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; “My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, / Lord Hamlet, with his =
doublet all unbraced; / No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, / Ungar=
ter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; / Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking=
each other; / And with a look so piteous in purport / As if he had been lo=
osed out of hell / To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.”<=
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;s thoughts on life and death make him seem like he has gone insane to many=
of the characters in the play. He does many strange to hide those thoughts=
, which make him seem like he’s gone mad to the untrained eye. This q=
uote by Ophelia, Hamlet’s supposed love interest, tells of how Hamlet=
is acting around her now that he knows of how his father died. Everyone th=
inks that he has gone insane because of the passing of his father, but his =
actions are merely a showing of how Hamlet reacts to the new monarchy’=
;s approach to old King Hamlet’s death. |
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