Common Themes In Hamlet Research Paper

William Shakespeare’s plays are known for using a wide array of ideas, and themes that recur throughout his plays which include mortality, deceit, ambition, revenge, rivalries, tragic character flaws, internal conflict and appearance versus reality. Hamlet by Shakespeare approaches, and deals with many of the recurring themes used in other Shakespeare plays like Macbeth. Hamlet is characterized in consequence of his actions, and by his interior strife with himself over whether he should kill Claudius, or not which is depicted to the audience through his internal monologue, and outer dialogue with other characters..

Through Hamlet’s Soliloquy in Act III, Scene iii of “Hamlet” captioned “Now might I do it” we witness the Intellectual Hamlet be temporarily engulfed with the sin of temptation to avenge his Father as he sees the praying Claudius as easy prey ”now I’ll do ’t. And so he goes to heaven.

And so am I revenged.”(Act III Scene iii Lines 74-76). Hamlet a “believer” of religion discards his temptation of assassinating Claudius while praying as he once again becomes conscious of the fact that life on Earth is temporary, but salvation is for eternity, and that Claudius did not offer that mercy to his Father “A villain kills my father, and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.”(Act
Hamlet's choice of vocabulary in the Soliloquy characterizes him, and firmly establishes his belief of an afterlife that goes for eternity acting as a preventative for Hamlet to go through with the killing of Claudius, The plot is further developed as it tells the audience the moment Hamlet is waiting for to avenge his father while also expanding on the themes of religion, mortality, and an