Loss of Innocence in Hamlet Essay -- GCSE English Literature Coursework

Loss of Innocence in Hamlet Hamlet is a character that we love to read roughly and analyze. His character is so realistic, and he is so romantic and idealistic that it is catchy not to like him. He is the typical young scholar approach the harsh reality of the real humankind. In this play, Hamlet has come to a time in his life where he has to see things as they sincerely are. Hamlet is an initiation history. Mordecai Marcus states some initiations take their protagonists across a door of maturity and understanding but leave them enmeshed in a struggle for certainty(234). And this is what happens to Hamlet. Although Hamlet is a little old to substantiate this experience of coming to be a man, we have to realize that his raft are not typical. He has lived as the son of a king. He is a scholar who has spent his life studying. He has lived in a earth that is not the typical world. And the extraordinary and horrible circumstances that live on him to his manhood break his will and his spirit and eventually cause him to ache his life. Hamlet has experienced a significant diversity of knowledge and this change does lead him into an adult world, although this is a world that Hamlet cannot live in. Hamlet, finished the relationships with his mother, father, and Ophelia, does become a man. But Hamlets disposition is so fragile, and he is so idealistic that this new world that he faces is not a world that he would ever be comfortable in, and it is not a world that he can live in. In the beginning of the play, Hamlets father comes to him as a ghost from the grave. He tells Hamlet of his uncles betrayal of him and tells Hamlet that he must kill Claudius to set things right. Through this event, Hamlet... ...became a man, he is quench left with uncertainty that ultimately results in his death. Unfortunately, this uncertainty of Hamlets is one that cannot be overcome. Hamlet is a story of realizing that the world is not what we thou ght it was, that everything is not good, and that there are bad people in the world. It is a story about searching for the meaning behind it all and about attempt to figure out how to make a decision. It is a story about becoming a man and Hamlet is the kind of character that keeps us enthralled until the very end. Works Cited Berman, Allison. We Only Find Ourselves. Hamlet reply papers. Wynnewood FCS, 2000. Lugo, Michael. Thus Conscience Does Make Cowards of Us All. Hamlet reaction papers. Wynnewood FCS, 2000. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. 1600? Ed. rustic Barnet. New York Signet Classic, 1998