Hamlet by William Shakespeare :: Character Analysis, Classics

<< In the play hamlet by William Shakesphere, the main character, critical point, has a high level of intelligence. In Denmark, Hamlet is the son of the king who had recently passed away, and the queen who betrayed her husband to marry Hamlets uncle curtly after his death. Hamlet is hurt and uproared by his mothers betrayal and his uncles rise to generate king. He has an extraordinary understand and comprehension of others and himself.      Hamlet understands himself and uses this as a strength for his revenge. He feels very affectionately about his fathers murder and hopes to desire a confession from King Claudius. "ill wipe away all worthless fond records, all saw books, all forms, all pressures past that younker and observation copied there" <act one, scene five> this is when hamlet becomes situated to carry out the revenge after he speaks to the ghost. He shows strong signs of a studious nature and plans to carry them out against cla udius. which he does, except not by blantent confrontation. Hes wise enough to know claudius would never reserve his sin that "is rank, it smeels to heaven", so he divises the mousetrap play. This plan shows he thinks straight but will not act too rapidly on this. He gives this plan great thought and makes careful decisions. Hamlets understanding of others helps discover the murderer of his father. His quick instincts tell him that the childhood friends Claudius wanted him to reunify with were spies. By asking them simple questions, Hamlet found Rosencrantz and Guildenstein werent who they said they were.