According to Aristotle Essay

Laertes verbose and theatrical behaviour causes the interview to dislike him. Nevertheless, unlike Hamlet he is willing to seize revenge at the prototypical opportunity. There are m each different perspectives on how Shakespeare addresses the theme of revenge in Hamlet, and also whether it is done successfully. One check made by Catherine Belsey, undermines Shakespeares approach, as she believed the secular injustice is not resolved. I only agree with the statement to a certain extent, because although Hamlet puts it off and Claudius death isnt planned by him he does force Claudius to drink the poison, causing his death.If the injustice did remain unresolved, which I dont believe it did, then that would support the criticism made by T. S Eliot that Hamlet as a revenge tragedy play itself, is a failure. In my opinion this accusation cannot be sustained as aside from the long wait, Shakespeare does manage to keep revenge the core theme throughout. According to Aristotle an effective tragic hero is a champion who is able to evoke both our pity and terror and is not thoroughly good or thoroughly bad, but a mixture of both.I think Shakespeare is therefore successful as we do pity Hamlet because he does want to kill Claudius but his orthodox Christianity and strict moral codes acts as a barrier his tragic flaw is procrastination. We are also scared of his bad side which is when he kills Polonius, attacks his mother and rejects Ophelia. Shakespeare uses a number of antitheses evil vs. good, life sentence vs. death, secular vs. religion and so on and the audience is left to decide which successes over the other.I think Shakespeare constructs Hamlets character so that the audience could become him, it is natural for us to question ourselves when faced with a dilemma as imperative as his. We understand his procrastination, but on the other batch his character does raise many questions that remain unresolved even by the end of the play. For example, we question wh ether his love for his mother and jealousy of Claudius is simply an Oedipus complex specially as scenes in the film and stage directions of his actions are ambiguous causing us to be unsure of what hes actually doing to her.Overall, an audience of any century, can relate to him and he becomes a believable psychologically developed character, unlike the others who seem to me to be caricatures and representatives of certain types of people.Word Count 1,715 A website http//people. brandeis. edu/teuber/earlycrit. hypertext markup language http//www. britannica. com/eb/article-9063348/revenge-tragedy http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Revenge_play A book Gill, Roma ed. , Hamlet (Oxford School, Shakespeare), Oxford University Press, 2007.