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Essay Archive - Hamlet: Tragedy of Failure
Hamlet: Tragedy of Failure
Hamlet's tragedy is a tragedy of failure-the failure of a man
placed in critical circumstances to deal successfully with those
circumstances. In some ways, Hamlet reminds us of Brutus in Shakespeare's
"Julius Caesar." Hamlet and Brutus are both good men who live in trying
times; both are intellectual, even philosophical; both men want to do the
right thing; both men intellectualize over what the right thing is; neither
man yields to passion. But here the comparison ends, for though both Brutus
and Hamlet reflect at length over the need to act, Bru....
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