Cause Of Hamlet's Distractions: Feelings And Passions
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Throughout Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, feelings and passion are
an enormous distraction for the main character Hamlet. Hamlet tends to act
as though he were an adolescent rather than a grown man. He acts very
immature, sarcastic, and takes action, before thinking it out, in the heat
of anger. ....
Middle of paper
.... tells Laeretes,:
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not with all their quantity of love
Make up my sum. (V,i, 264-266)
Hamlet is too immature to love her enough to trust her in their
relationship. This trust that he is lacking will give him the ability to
hand Ophelia the key to his madness however, due to immaturity he is unable
to hand her the key. Because of Hamlet's immaturity this same madness
enables him to act extremely irrational at times, such as killing Poloni ....
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