"Hamlet" ( William Shakespeare )

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"Hamlet's interactions with the other characters in Shakespeare's play not only move the action forward but display the many aspects of his character and the reasoning behind his actions

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"Hamlet's interactions with the other characters in Shakespeare's play not only move the action forward but display the many aspects of his character and the reasoning behind his actions. In his initial scene with his mother, for example, Hamlet shows that he is aware that there is a degree of guilt on Gertrude's part, but he reacts with extreme caution and resorts to irony rather than to confrontation.

The relationship with his mother is set up as being somewhat off-center. In Gertrude's first words to Hamlet she asks him to give up his dark clothing and to "let [his] eye look like a friend on Denmark" (1,ii,69). Though she does not explicitly mention that she is asking him to give up the signs of his mourning, she continues by assuring him that death comes to everyone and that his father's passing is a natural event. There ..."

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