Hidden Personalities
...es a kind caring man who does his best to make sure that Gertrude stays with him. Keeping up this hidden personality proves to be too much for Claudius when his guilt catches up with him. “O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon't, a brother's murder. Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect. (Act three scene three)” Ophelia is another character that the hidden personality theme is evident. She hides her true identity from the harsh realities of her life. Ophelia believes that Hamlet loves her and would never hear her directly. But through Hamlets words and his action such as killing her father, it destroys her hidden personally that she used to protect her self. Like Claudius these event would also prove to be too much for Ophelia. She eventually goes insane and takes her own life The Most complicated and one of the best examples of the hidden personality theme is Hamlet himself. The line between Hamlets real personality and hidden one is very complex. In his delusional madness he hurts many people with his verbal attacks. I feel that Hamlet uses his so called madness to justify is real personality, which is an undecided, curl, and suspicious person. Hamlet kills innocent people such as Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Polonius with little or no remorse. In act five in the play Hamlet blames Polonius’s death on his won madness by saying “I here proclaim was madness. Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet...