An Analysis of Hamlet
Acting quickly and instinctively is the best response to a crisis. During a crisis there is not enough time to thing, as George Clemenceau once said “you must act as you breathe”. However following impulses is what lead Hamlet to his “mad” state and into his tragic fate in Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
One scene of an act done is haste is the killing of Polonius and according to Michael Neil, “ Polonius is the perfect inhabitant of this court: busily policing his children's sexuality, he has no scruple about prostituting his daughter.” Her father and brother believed that Hamlet would use Ophelia taking her virginity and then discarding her because she could never be his wife but her heart convinced her otherwise. To her father and brother, Ophelia is the eternal virgin but to Hamlet, she is a sexual object, one for him to lay his head upon. With no mother to guide her, she has no way of forming her own opinion on this matter because mothers being more experienced would not have used Ophelia for her own gain like Polonius had done. This shows how although the killing had occurred on accident it is logical because one would think that it would free Polonius's daughter, Ophelia. However, that was not the case because it instead lead to the crazed person who Ophelia became and lead to her drowned death, “How now? a rat? [Draws.]/ Dead for a ducat, dead!/ [Makes a pass through the arras.]/ [Behind.] O, I am slain!/ [Falls and dies].” (Hamlet III. iv)If Hamlet had not acted in haste without checking who was behind the tapestry then he would have not lost his love to such cruel occurrences. The resulting condition of Ophelia only shows that "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (Hamlet I, ii)(line 150) because once she had lost the person controlling and thinking of her she could no longer live in reality because she never thought on her own and therefore...