Hamlet Analysis Essay, Research Paper

Whether we are planning to build a boat or hoping to write a good essay, the

only way to go about these tasks is to make a detailed plan of all the steps

that need to be taken in order to get the desired result. If you spontaneously

decide to build a boat, the result may be a plywood tub that leaks from all

sides, let alone hold anyone in it. Hamlet, a seventh century story put to life

through the amazing writing of Shakespeare, is a play that shows how meticulous

and well thought out plans will bring about the desired result. The plays main

character, Hamlet, is a Renaissance man that struggles with the corrupt world

around him. He must deal with such issues like "blood for blood

revenge" when his own uncle kills his father and takes his place as king. A

ghost king appears to Hamlet and catalyzes the events that follow in the play.

Hamlet must devise a plan to take revenge for his father and bring to justice

all the people who have marred the situation. Though the church mandates through

its moral code that Hamlet not take revenge, Hamlet tries to find the worst fate

for his devious uncle possible: "Now might I do it, now he is a-praying,

And now I’ll do’t and so he goes to heave?When he is drunk asleep, or in his

rage, or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed?Then trip him?And that his

soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes" (3.4.77-100).

Hamlet finally gains the nerve to kill his uncle, but sheaths his sword when he

realizes that if he kills him while he is praying, his uncle will ascend to

heaven. He ultimately decides to kill his uncle when he commits a sin, so that

his soul "may be as damned and black as hell." He goes through a

meticulous thought process, which shows him both his options and when to act to

give his uncle the most cruel and horrible death he deserves. His actions also

bring in a conflict between church and the revengeful calls of his families

past. If he revenges his father’s death then he will be damned to hell according

to the church. Without Hamlet’s patient and meticulous thought process he would

not be able to outwardly expose the king of his wrong doings to Horatio: There

is a play tonight before the King. One scene of it comes near the circumstance

Which I have told thee of my father’s death. I prithee,?Observe my uncle.

Hamlet devises a well thought out plan of exposing the King’s fault in his

father’s death. Hamlet uses the advantage of having a wonderful acting troop

with him to put on a play for the King and other nobility that greatly resembles

the circumstances in which Hamlet’s father was killed. Hamlet’s hard work is

rewarded when the King storms out of the performance as a result of his own

guilt and wrong doings. Hamlet also devised this plan to fully prove to himself

that the ghost was a trustworthy advocate and not a damned spirit from hell,

trying to disrupt and corrupt the Danish court. The through well thought out

plans of Hamlet ultimately give him his revenge but also bring the consequence

of death by the treachery he creates through the story. Like Hamlet, I use often

a long thought process to plan projects that I wish to do. We both are not quick

to act, but rather devise a plan to attain our goal. Spontaneous thinking can

bring about undesired and sometimes deadly results. A careful thought process is

a safer, but not as exhilarating and self-fulfilling way of confronting life

without being spontaneous. A balance between the two thought processes would

produce the most desirable result.