Hamlet

Hamlet Essay People who are immature and impulsive create their own problems in life. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, a young man, Hamlet, is immature and impulsive. Hamlet’s doubting and deliberating actions combined with his immaturity and anger spark the bloodbath that leads to his death and demise of others. Hamlet’s immaturity leads to his tragic death. Being immature, Hamlet is often sarcastic about serious matters. When speaking to Ophelia he says, “O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but me merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within ‘s two hours” (143). Hamlet is being sarcastic saying that a man should always be happy even in the worst of situations. He then points out that his mother looks happy and cheerful although his father just died only two weeks ago. Hamlet is also immature because he can never make up his mind. He is constantly putting himself down because he cannot make a decision about anything. While over-thinking the murder of Claudias he says, “A dull and muddy-melted rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause…” (117). He cannot make up his mind about the murder so he is putting himself down for not being able to make a decision, calling himself dull spirited and an absent-minded dreamer. All of Hamlet’s immature actions lead to the death and demise of himself and the people surrounding him. Hamlet’s impulsive actions lead to his death and the death of others. Hamlet is very impulsive and does almost everything on a whim. Hamlet whimsically kills Polonius behind a curtain, not even knowing for sure if it actually is Polonius. After he kills Polonius, his mother cries “O, what a rash and bloody deed is this! (171). Hamlet then goes on to berate his mother saying “A bloody deed—almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother” (171). When the Queen cries out about Hamlet killing Polonius, she is manifesting how impulsive Hamlet was to kill Polonius