The pessimism in "Hamlet" by Shakespeare

A multifaceted gifted person who has a rare talent - Shakespeare creates the Hamlet tragedy as a complex picture of human relationships and feelings. The humanistic beginning is pronounced in his emotional nature. He embodies the ideal of the man of the Renaissance era - human and good, straight, living for justice. A widespread personality whose height over the low in life does not "fit" into the environment of relationships that predominate in the tragedy. It is as if the more complex soul, the more it does not feel comfortable within human primacy. Hamlet stands out with the aristocracy of the spirit among all the others in Elsinor.

The cruel confrontation with the palace community has changed him radically. It disturbs his peace and hence his deep pessimism. Everything that happens in Elsinor - the murder of his father, the feeling of betrayal brought about by his mother's wedding sends the prince into an inner chaos of disappointment, pain, arousing doubts. He loses faith in life and people. Hamlet feels cheated and betrayed both by life and by the people, so the ability and the desire to believe them is almost destroyed. The more he engulfs in his own world of worries and reflections, the more Hamlet begins to lose faith and a positive attitude towards his future and his way. There is nothing optimistic and positive in his life that could give him the strength to go forward. His internal tragedy from the killing of the King will incite him to unending revenge. The very crime committed by Claudius is not presented cruelly and compulsively, as it’s in other works following Hamlet's composition. Under the influence of his pessimism, the character meditates, analyzes the situations and behavior of others, and creates a sense of deepening inaction. The humility of thoughts is a defensive tool against anger and despair, for if they were not, revenge (the death of Claudius) would have been at the beginning of the work, and with it the whole denouement would have been there. The character's heroism is the cause of his pessimism, but it is also a condition that discourages negative impulses from acting abruptly and guiding his actions. "So far" and "hidden" is Hamlet among the others in Elsinor. Among the general festivity - because of the new King's coronation - Prince Hamlet is represented by his humanity. He is not the worthy crown heir, and the man who suffers from the loss of a relative. Hamlet is the son who grieves openly for his father. It proves his strong emotion, which he can not suppress and control. In the conversation with the king and the queen, Hamlet clearly detects her mental pain, and the ironic hints of sourness are a signal of rising hatred.

The disappointment of the prince from the premature marriage of his mother reaches its natural culmination, formulating the conclusion:" Oh, weakness, your name is a woman! "A person who, according to his moral norms of a real humanist, forgets one love quickly and is attributed to another, is a weak, changeable, unworthy person. The lack of sincerity, loyalty, and respect for the deceased king appear in Hamlet's mind as a possible cause of maternal action. The pain of the character is exacerbated by the fact that he has had a very strong emotional connection with his father. Sincere honor and admiration of the King's personality is flowing from the words: "Man was he - seen as a whole. I do not have a second time to see! "For the humanist human is most precious. And for the pessimist Hamlet - there will be no second among this "disgust and stench" to meet his unreachably high human and moral demands. Hamlet is a prince, possessing his infinite loneliness, who would not exchange his inward retreat for a dishonorable role in the power play in Elsinor. The character reveals his personal drama in the fourth stage of the first action, which is key point to the development of the dramatic action. Pessimistic is Hamlet's look, filled with a critical attitude towards reality. Hamlet analyzes the vices and points out that every dark passion "spoils all good" in people and causes others to disregard their positive qualities "countless."

The pessimistic gradation in Hamlet's emotions is an expression of inner anxiety at the moment when, without hesitation and fear for his own life, he walks after the Ghost: "Why should I be afraid? I do not give a penny to my life, but of my soul what will it do when it’s immortal?" The suspicion deepens, sounds pessimistic in the conscientiousness of the crown prince, because "closed" in his reflection, Hamlet reaches to philosophical insights into the meaning of human existence. Thanks to his pessimism, the character finds the strength to see his own tragedy "locked" into himself and in his despair. Reflection is a "cultivated" mirror image of instinct for self-preservation and self-awareness. But for Hamlet's rich psychological thrills, this is a painful process. He is under the influence of extreme emotions. From the "dream of love" is ready to fly, to the must. Humane in his consciousness leads to pessimistic thoughts. Hamlet's humanism is tragic. The bloody fratricidal act of the crime, revealed by the King's Ghost, causes a deep despair and a painful emotional experience. The feelings of Hamlet are more positive. Fire and frost fill his soul. Now his preconceptions are proven. The experienced dislike of his uncle is reasonable. It has become cruel hatred and an engine of revenge. The clearer the picture of the new King's immorality becomes, the darkness in Hamlet's psychological experiences intensifies. Crime, spiritual depravity and lie have "infected" everyone, not just the King. They are licking Rosencrantz and Guildstern, who are depressed. They are morally deformed. Deprived of individuality, they reflect each other's viciousness in their souls, which Hamlet visibly reveals. As a real humanist, he is disappointed, but he remains faithful and submissive to his human nature. As a contradictory answer to the hypocrisy behavior of Claudius' two servants, Hamlet gives his remarkable definition of man and his humanity in his second stage monologue, the second act: "Man! what a magnificent creation he is. "Lakonic, but gathered immeasurable love and admiration for people is this finding.

Hamlet's humanity and brightness above low emotions strengthens his tragedy, for it is painful for you to exist among so many "evil vapor", such as lies, greed, and heartlessness. The reader "sees" aside the false world of Elsinor as clearly as Hamlet anticipates. Intrigue, wickedness also bears Polonii (the father of Ophelia). It is one of the most typical carriers of viciousness. The scene, directed by him as a "trap" for Hamlet, again reveals the clash between humanism and pessimism as an assessment of human existence. The monologue, "To be or not to be?" Reveals the humanity's suspicion of Hamlet in the absolute power of evil. He believes in the constructive, reasonable beginning of man, opposed to corruption and breathlessness. But these philosophical thoughts do not change the pessimistic attitudes of contemplation. Life loses meaning without a real opportunity to eliminate evil, to "cure" the souls of moral corruption and the vileness of viciousness. Hamlet's pessimism is an expression of his humiliated dignity. The cruelty and indifference of the world in which he lives does not succeed in killing humanism in him. The Hamlet tragedy is the painful artistic measure of humanity and human values incompatible with the manifestations of viciousness. The personal suffering of Shakespeare's character awakens a philosophical reflection on the meaning of life. The ordinary life event in a collision with the humane idea of man creates the inexplicable complexity in Hamlet's psychological quests. He puts the eternal problem of "To be or not to be that is the question?" A worthy man in his time, regardless of his moral dimensions and the personal drama of life situations.

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