Essay On The Power Of Words In Shakespeare's Hamlet

People’s words and actions do not reveal their true intentions. In Hamlet, several characters were acting activities and saying certin words , but inside of them they meant the opposite such as Claudius, Polonius, and Ophelia. In the beginning of the play, the audience was tricked into Claudius being the caring uncle that was giving Hamlet a long speech on how he should move on with his life “Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father But, you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost”(1.3.87-90). Claudius was trying to tell Hamlet that everyone will die at some point, but life will continue and Hamlet cannot do anything about it. Later on when Laertes father Polonius was murdered, Claudius seems to have a very different
Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him, As thus: "I know his father and his friends, And, in part, him”(2.1.13-15). He sends Reynaldo to France to spy on his son, the reason behind it does not seems to be out of love, instead it shows how Polonius do not trust his son, and he does not really think of the consequences of sending a spy on his son, Reynaldo could of have caused a problem to Laertes in France or could of saw Laertes doing something that he would need to report not to Polonius but to the king. Almost all of the characters were acting and pretending even the good ones such as Ophelia, she was pretending to be the pure girl that her father wanted her to be, Polonius believes that his daughter did not have an affair with Hamlet, but there was evidence that was shown in the end of the play about how Hamlet and Ophelia had an affair. When Ophelia goes crazy she starts to sing songs that seems to be reveal the truth of what was happing “Before you tumbled me,You promised me to