This document provides an analysis of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet in 3 paragraphs or less: Hamlet is a complex character who is portrayed as a thinker and moral idealist but finds it difficult to align his thoughts with actions. He is indecisive and contemplates life through famous soliloquies like "To be or not to be." Scholars note Hamlet represents the human condition of being unable to fully comprehend truth. The document discusses Hamlet as a detective hero who is driven to uncover hidden truths about his father's death but struggles with the implications of what he discovers. Hamlet resonates universally because audiences see themselves in Hamlet's introspection and struggle to align his ideals

1. ‘Hamlet’ Hamlet : A Poet, Thinker, Madman was born… “Let me be brief” Maulik Bhatt Roll no.-3 M.A. Part-1 Year-2010-11

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3. Having different aspects supplementing and contradicting with one another. According to Goethe, “ Hamlet is a lovely, pure and most moral nature, but he thinks that Hamlet is without the strength of nerve which forms the hero.” Hamlet, His Complexity Unparalleled

4. Is ill at easein the world of practical reality. Unable to think and act in unison Ends his famous soliloquy, “To be or not to be…” in Act -III , Scene – I with, “ The native hue of resolution Is sicklied (sic.) o’ er with the pale cast of thought.” His conscience makes a coward of him. T. S. Eliot notes acerbically in his famous essay, ‘Hamlet and his Problems’, “ Hamlet the character has had an especial temptation for that most dangerous type of critic : the critic with a mind which is naturally of the creative order, but which through some weakness in creative power exercises itself in criticism instead.” Hamlet, A Moral Idealist…

5. Hamlet – a detective hero – driven to discover truth that he cannot fully comprehend In his short essay ‘ The Simple Art of Murder’, Raymond Chandler describes the detective as, “ Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man… The story is his adventure in search of hidden truth and it would be no adventure, if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. He has range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in.” Hamlet, A Detective Hero

6. Our interest in the protagonist, says Harry Levin, is self involvement; that we are all Hamlet. S. T . Coleridge also agrees, “Indeed, that this character must have some connection with the common fundamental laws of our nature may be assumed from the fact that Hamlet has been the darling of every country in which the literature of England has been fostered.” “ The rest is silence.” Hamlet , A Universal Figure