1. Paper: 1 The Renaissance Literature
Prepared by: Drashti Mehta
Roll No:10
P.G.Enrollment No:PG13101021
Seat no:11310009
Sem:1
Email id:drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt S.B.Gardi
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji
Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

2. Hamlet
- By William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564
in the village of Warwickshire.His father John
Shakespeare was a farmer’s son.

3. What is Madness?
•Lets talk about the concept of madness first.
If a person is mad his thought have no logical
connection .They lake thinking ability.They have
no good reasoning faculty.

4. Can we call Hamlet mad?
• When he becomes alone he
behaves differently , and start
to speak all the things which
he feels , his behavior with the
ghost is different.
• His behavior with Ophelia
,with Polonius , with Horatio,
with Claudius.

5. Characteristics of Hamlet
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Tragic hero
Behavioral pattern
Sudden jerk
Strong control
Balance
Reasons
Cruel behavior

6. Hamlet as a tragic hero
• The role of fate .
• The tragical elements .
• For Ex.: Othello,King
Lear ,Julius Caesar ,
Anthony and Cleopetra.

7. Behavioural Pattern
• Hamlet has developed such
a kind of Behavioural
pattern .
• If we may there in the
situation of Hamlet we can’t
behave differently with
different Person.

8. Sudden Jerk
• Hamlet comes to know
about the Crime of his
Uncle .
• So, here he get shocked
,and from this all the
thing get started.

9. Strong Control over mind
• He
balance
his
emotions,passions,anger
and
patience.
• He act as a mad man before
Polonius,
Rosencrantz
and
Guildenstern.
• He did not make even a single
mistake in dealing with them as a
mad man.

10. Balance
• When Hamlet speaks about himself
to Haratio just before the staging of
the play, he gives the judicious
instruction to the actors about how
they ought to act.
• He gives the warm welcome to his
old schoolmates.
• And this shows his balanced mind.

11. Reasons
• Ophelia thought him to be mad
as she stopped meeting him but
the real cause is the shock given
to him by his nears and dears
and he was suffering alone.

12. Cruel BehaviorO
• Hamlet behaves cruelly with Ophelia in one of
the Nunnery Scene.
• With Gertrude- he behaves brutally with her.
• “Frailty thy name is Women.”_By Hamlet.

13. Characteristics of Ophelia
• She is Polonius’s daughter. And the
heroine and main female character.
• Young, faithful, beautiful and
obedient, sweet lovely ,innocent
and saint like figure.
• She is not involved in state matters,
she is not dishonest.

14. Dependent on male character
• She loved her father , brother and lover
deeply
• Father forced her to read letter.
• Hamlet behaves cruelly- Nunnery
scene.
• So she choose her father leaving
Hamlet.

15. Ophelia’s madness
• When Hamlet kills
her father, and her
brother comes, then
she sings the song of
agony.

16. Drowned herself.
• She meets her tragic doom ,
she was faithful to her lover
and father but nobody even
asks her about her innocence
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• She dies drowning in the
river amid the garlands.

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