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assirouba
assirouba
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College - Sophomore

In one sentence, what is the general idea of the play Hamlet?

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Posted by assirouba on Sunday September 16, 2007 at 10:59 AM and tagged with hamlet, themes.

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  1. arjun Teacher
    College - Senior

    The general idea of Hamlet is to take revenge of his father`s death from his uncle and to prove himself a prestigous son.

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    Posted by arjun on Sunday September 16, 2007 at 11:15 AM

  2. arjun50
    arjun50 Teacher
    College - Senior

    The general idea of Hamlet is to get rid of deep shocks by taking avenge of his father from his serpent uncle who is murderer and a wolf in sheep clothes.

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    Posted by arjun50 on Wednesday September 19, 2007 at 8:30 AM

  3. kudev
    kudev Student
    Vocational

    Hamlet seeks the objective truth of his new situation, believing he has been wrongly overturned from being the Prince/heir to the throne,though his apprehensions puts him in a treasonous position, he perseveres craftily, even after having moral proof, to obtain general objective evidence,  in the last scene when Laertes states the King is responsible, even after an interlude when the court, calling 'Treason' , does not make it clear if they mean Hamlet's stabbing of Claudius with the poisoned foil, or Claudius' preparing both it and the poisoned cup which kills Gertrude. At his death, he is vindicated, but he knew the game was very dangerous.

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    Posted by kudev on Monday May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM

  4. kctallman
    kctallman Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The general idea behind the play is what Hamlet learns in Act V which is to renounce his hubris and conform to the "divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough hew them how we will."

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    Posted by kctallman on Thursday August 14, 2008 at 9:51 AM


  5. blazedale

    eNotes Editor

    A son avenges his father's murder, but his madness and indecision take its toll on everyone.

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    Posted by blazedale on Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM


  6. frizzyperm Teacher
    College - Senior

    Life; an advanced user's guide.

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    Posted by frizzyperm on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 1:52 AM


  7. frizzyperm Teacher
    College - Senior

    I love this thread's question! Hamlet is not really about the fall of the house of Denmark or Ghosts or Norwegian princes. Hamlet is about Life's dissapointment. Its about stripping away layer after layer of false meaning and experience and finding all of life's absurdities. But then finding they won't fit back together again and that life still goes on, however damaged and absurd it all is. 

    Hamlet is Shakespeare's rant at the world. It is one long existential scream. In the 20th century, Philosophy shrugged it's shoulders and concluded, "Basically; life is absurd, and there's nothing we can do about it."

    Hamlet's journey is the discovery and acceptance of this. 

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    Posted by frizzyperm on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 4:22 AM