Honors

Hamlet
Hamlet has been the most significant play that has survived the critics and transformed its meaning throughout the years. This play is based on an interesting concept that has caught audiences all around the world and shows that plays have an actual meaning to the way scripts have been written and also how each character is thought very intensively and analyzed from every aspect. Shakespeare did an overall great job in writing this historical play that impressed the many theatrical writers whom later on buildup from this play. In Hamlet many critics see different types of historic significance to how the character Hamlet was based. He tends to feel many emotions but they all add up to one thing which I think most of the characters in the play want as well. Ambition is something that I have seen throughout this whole play, it just seems that the characters scripts were written to play out like if they were really not interested in the same ambition that made Hamlet’s uncle murder his own brother and keep the throne.
I believe that in Hamlet the literary significance that acts out throughout the play is the ambition and power for something they all have a desire of and are willing to risk it all to obtain it. However, once obtained the feeling of having it all fades and is left with consequences that just lead up to death and committing suicide. An example of this is in Act 1 Scene 5
GHOST
You must be ready for revenge, too, when you hear me out.
GHOST
His most horrible murder. Murder’s always horrible, but this one was especially horrible, weird, and unnatural.
HAMLET
Hurry and tell me about it, so I can take revenge right away, faster than a person falls in love.
GHOST
I’m glad you’re eager. You’d have to be as lazy as a weed on the shores of Lethe not to get riled up here. Now listen, Hamlet. Everyone was told that a poisonous snake bit me when I was sleeping in the orchard. But in fact, that’s a lie that’s fooled everyone in Denmark. You should know, my noble son, the real snake that stung your father is now wearing his crown.
HAMLET
I knew it! My uncle.
This scene to me really showed me how Hamlets character was very gullible and the ghost persuade him into seeking revenge for his father, but with this inside of him he knew that once taking revenge he would be next in line to become the new king and forget all about how he got to this point. Shakespeare might have made Hamlet intentionally ambitious and clever to a point that while reading the play we couldn’t have seen him act like one more of the bad guys. This opened my eyes to look deeper into every character in as many perspectives as I could, not only to see if I could interpret them in another way, but also to see the other side of how characters might be acting to get to what they really desired from the beginning.
Another obvious example that gives out a characters ambition to something in the play is, Claudius. He has the nerve to just scream it out into the whole palace by simply just marrying his own brothers wife, who also ambitions not having someone to protect her and her kingdom. This has all been to great use in the scene where Claudius orders Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, checking up on him to see if he can try to get Hamlet out of his way and go on with his plans for ruling his kingdom.
According to Hamlet his objective was to seek revenge on his father’s unexpected death, but, with this came the many different types of desires that everyone else wanted to obtain from him as well. Even though nobody quite successfully obtain what their main thing was from the beginning of the play, they just ended up dead for the same reason being that they all had the same desire to obtain power and gain other personal ambitions from it all.