Essay Archive - Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist
Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist
In Hamlet, Elsinore is a society which people are seen acting in a
deceitful manner in order to gain personal measures and prestige. These people
mask their true in intentions to acquire selfish desires. In doing so they
develop a theme of the discrepancy between the way things appear and their true
realities. Hamlet, on the other hand, is an honest, moral individual trapped in
this deceitful society. Hamlet is faced with the dilemma to either lower
himself to their level by utilizing deception, or leave wrongs unrighted by
remaining true to himself. In Hamlet, the theme of appearance versus reality....
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