An analysis of Hamlet

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or simply Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1601—1602, and was first published in 1603.

William Shakespeare, the most remarkable playwright and a poet of England in the period of the Renaissance in European, an outstanding representative of humanitarianism, is one of the founders of modern European literature. Being one of the world’s greatest writers, he was recognized as the pinnacle of English Renaissance. In his works, Hamlet, one of the four tragedies, is considered to be the summit of his art and it is also the sign of the maturation in the art of Shakespeare’s play. Besides, being Shakespeare's longest play and one of the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language, Hamlet has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella."

Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, describes a story of a prince’s revenge for his father’s death in Denmark. The King of Denmark died, young prince Hamlet who was making further education abroad came back to his country. Out of his imagination, his mother married his uncle Claudius just after the old King’s death. A ghost who looked like the old King emerged one night, and told Hamlet that it was Claudius who killed him, so Hamlet vowed to revenge. He began to pretend to be mad, and left his lover Ophelia. To spy upon the reflection of Claudius, Hamlet arranged a play which was drawn by him. Claudius realized it, he sent Hamlet to England, and asked the man who kept watch on Hamlet to give letter to the king of England to have Hamlet died. But Claudius failed; Hamlet came back to his country again. Meanwhile Ophelia was drawn because of her father’s death and her lover Hamlet’s drifting apart of her. Her brother Laertes was very angry; he asked to fight with Hamlet. Then Claudius arranged a sword match for them, in which Hamlet was killed by the poison sword, Laertes was wounded to die. The Queen (Hamlet’s mother) died from the poison wine which was prepared for Hamlet by Claudius. Before death, Laertes told the truth. Finally Hamlet killed Claudius with the cost of his life.

When I read the novel, I sometimes was angry with Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. There were many appropriate opportunities for him to kill his uncle, Claudius, but he all missed because of his hesitation. For example, Hamlet once came upon Claudius in an attitude of prayer, and could have stabbed him in the back. But Hamlet did not strike because he believed that the evil person died there would be sent to the heaven. With the development of the plot, Shakespeare finally showed us the tragedy of Hamlet. Throughout the whole story, I think that maybe it was destined for Hamlet to end with his death. As far as I am concerned, there are two main reasons resulting in Hamlet’s tragedy.

Firstly, it is Hamlet's character that contributes to the tragedy. On the one hand, Hamlet was melancholy. Being a prince with humanistic ideas, Hamlet had wonderful dreams on humanism when he studied in Wittenberg. Just as Shakespeare said in his work --- He has “The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye tongue, sword,” he is “Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form.

[ACT III, SCENE 1]” To him, the world was so bright. However, everything changed after Hamlet came back to Denmark. He found that his loved father died, his mother married his uncle, and his uncle became the king. His ideals were all shattered. So Hamlet became extremely melancholy and discontented with the state of affairs in Denmark and in his own family — indeed, in the world at large. He treated his mother as a stranger and even repudiated Ophelia, a woman he once claimed to love. His words often indicated his disgust with and distrust of women in general. He even said:" Frailty thy name is woman." So revenge became everything to him. He didn't trust anyone and finally fell into enemy's trap and died. On the other hand, Hamlet was delayed. While he knew that his enemy was his uncle, Claudius, the king, who also planted the spies around him to monitor his words and actions, he believed that it was a difficult task. So he hesitated a lot of things so that he missed many advantageous chances.

Secondly, it is the social contradictions that bring about the tragedy. On the one hand, when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, it was at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With the intensification of various contradictions of the society in British,

the social evils were increasingly exposed. During that period, Shakespeare's humanist ideals collided with the social reality. He had completely lost the confidence of the reality. So Shakespeare reflected his disappointment and even despair on Hamlet, a typical image of the tragic hero, who was also a contradiction of the collision between the ideal and the reality. Therefore, in the play, Hamlet’s enemy was not just Claudius, but the whole feudal evil force. Humanism just existed as a power of thought at that time, which was far away to match with the feudal evil force. So Hamlet's death was destined. On the other hand, as his prince social position, Hamlet had no communication with people and was unwilling to corporate with people. What he believed was his own ability. In his mind he was the only person who could complete such hard task, which was also a root of Hamlet's tragedy.

All in all, Hamlet is a successful work, giving people deep impression. In our real life, we may suffer from different pressures and difficulties. A good attitude is very important to us. There is no doubt that irreconcilable contradictions always exist between the ideal and the reality. We should treat them properly.

 

第二篇：文档初中英语小说读后感

《名人传》读后感

阅读了罗曼·罗兰的《名人传》，深有感触。罗曼·罗兰是20世纪法国著名作家，他的作品是人们强大的精神支柱。《名人传》写的是贝多芬，米开朗基罗和托尔斯泰的故事，他们经历了各种的磨难却没有向命运屈服，在生命的最后一秒仍不屈不挠的抗争着，最终成为了伟人。这也告诉了我们一个道理：艰难和挫折是对命运和人生的最好锤炼！

在这三位伟人当中，给我留下最深印象的是贝多芬。他对音乐有火一般的热情，先后创作了许多优秀的作品。他的作品深邃而辉煌壮观，充满了幻想。但灾难还是无情的降临到了他的头上，在1802年，他意识到自己的听力障碍已经无法治愈，并且会很快恶化。那意味着他可能再也不能进行创作了!这是多么大的打击啊！但他却能顽强的和命运抗争，这也许是他后期能写出那么多不朽作品的原因吧。这种对生活对命运永不妥协的精神正是我们应该学习的，这伟大不屈的灵魂让黑暗的世界有了光芒，让生活有了希望。

读了贝多芬的故事，让我联想到了海伦凯勒——一个同样有着坚强毅力的人。她的生活同样是很不幸的，儿时的一场大病，让她变成了一位又盲又聋又哑的小女孩。在她的世界里，没有色彩，没有声音，也无法表达自己的想法。但命运的不公没有让她失去希望，她渴望了解一切，于是她加倍的努力，最终成为十九世纪最有影响力的人物之一 。

贝多芬和海伦凯勒在生活中遭遇着不同的磨难，但他们却有着同样的精神——永不向命运屈服！这不仅让我敬佩也引发了我深深的思考。作为21世纪的一名中学生，社会的竞争更加的激烈，我们的功课越来越多，学习上的困难也随之增多，面对重重的困难与压力，我们是不是也需要这种精神呢？是！在遇到难题时，在学习成绩下降时，让我们“借着贝多芬的光芒，再一次擦亮我们的眼睛。”用坚定的信念去面对挫折，用顽强的毅力去实现理想

读《假如给我三天光明》有感

父母、老师常常教育我们：一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。自从我读了美国盲聋女作家、教育家海伦．凯勒写的《假如给我三天光明》，我才更明白这句话的含义。

《假如给我三天光明》这本书写了海伦对光明那热切的渴望和对人生的感慨，让读过这本书的人和她一起分享海伦人生中的酸甜苦辣。书字里行间，无不洋溢海伦·凯勒对生活的热爱，她用热情的态度劝戒世人应该珍惜享有的一切。她希望拥有三天的光明去看尽世界的一切景观。海伦·凯勒想看的事物实在是太多太多了，然而这只不过是一个梦。

"要是人把活着的每一天都当成最后一天该有多好啊，那就更能显示出生命的价值，然而人利用时间和享受时间却是有限的"如果每个人都可以充分利用每一天的话，那这将会是一件多么令人高兴的事情啊!三天光明，对于常人来说只是人生中的短暂的一刻。对于双目失明的海伦来说，却是可想而不可及的。三天光明，对于那些碌碌无为的人，无非是在漫无目的地游玩着，他们追求的生活还不如那些乞丐，至少还知道去要饭。而目前青少年学生中也有这么一些人，拥有舒适的生活环境，良好的学习条件。但他们不是去珍惜自己拥有的一切，而是吃不得半点苦，把学习当成一大苦差，无心向学。对于学习，他们总是不屑一顾，不是以积极的态度去勤奋学习，努力拼搏，而是哀叹命运对于自己的不公，责怨上天没有赋予他们聪颖的天资、超人的智慧，让他们能一举成名天下知。现在的社会是靠知识才能生存的社会，没有知识的人是不可能在社会上有一席之地。如果我们可以好好学习，让学问把大脑给

占据的话，就可以为以后的道路铺上一层石头了！

海伦·凯勒双木失明，她还能用自己的残疾的身躯写出《假如给我三天光明》这样闻名于世的书。而我们拥有的健康的身体，明亮的眼睛，又有什么理由不去奋斗，不去创造自己的美好人生呢？