THE DYNAMIC CHARACTER
People change. like that friend from elementary who was sweet, spice, and everything nice who later became a careless, gothic, living time bomb. Well in stories this changing character is normally referred to as a dynamic character. The degrees to how much they change can range from being subliminal to drastic; it all depends on how the author would like to unravel their tale using their characters.
In the case of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the stories' protagonist, Hamlet, changes throughout the story and along with his unfolding character the theme and tone of the play unravels through his thoughts and actions.
Hamlet starts off remorseful and disgusted. He hates the fact that his mother, in less than a month, married his "satyr" of an uncle and disregarded his "hyperion" father. His first soliloquy gets us to feel appalled of Gertrude and Claudius by receiving Hamlet's facts and mood of his newly constructed family. "She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incetuos sheets! It is not nor , nor cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue". From the diction used we can tell that Hamlet is disgusted and saddened by these quick events which in turn makes us agree with his feelings.
Soon after, Hamlet had spoken with his father's ghost whom revealed the truth of what has happened. Hamlet leaves vengeful and determined to send his uncle to hell for his crimes. Hamlet has now gone from disgust to anger, "O villain, villain, smiling damned villain". At this point of the tale Hamlets shift reveals the antagonist of our story: King Claudius. This then lets us pull a few points together with Hamlet to be able to aim our hate towards Claudius wishing that Hamlet be able to fulfil his promise.
Hamlet, though, begins to doubt his promise. He ponders the reality behind this high stacked goal, and the huge repercussions that could come along with it. We see along with him that jumping to conclusions may not have been the right path to take. Perhaps it would have been best to have some kind of proof. Hamlet decides to use a play to hopefully see if his uncle could really have committed such a wretched crime. If Claudius reveals it then Hamlet would indeed focus his life on fulfilling his promise to his father along with bringing us closer to the story's climax.
And with that we found that Hamlet's changes made us change our thoughts and views on this tragedy. Change isn't a bad thing. It reveals to us how we need to everything through. And like that friend and Hamlet how have you changed along with your thoughts, hopes, actions, and goals in the events of your life, of your story.
People change. like that friend from elementary who was sweet, spice, and everything nice who later became a careless, gothic, living time bomb. Well in stories this changing character is normally referred to as a dynamic character. The degrees to how much they change can range from being subliminal to drastic; it all depends on how the author would like to unravel their tale using their characters.
In the case of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the stories' protagonist, Hamlet, changes throughout the story and along with his unfolding character the theme and tone of the play unravels through his thoughts and actions.
Hamlet starts off remorseful and disgusted. He hates the fact that his mother, in less than a month, married his "satyr" of an uncle and disregarded his "hyperion" father. His first soliloquy gets us to feel appalled of Gertrude and Claudius by receiving Hamlet's facts and mood of his newly constructed family. "She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incetuos sheets! It is not nor , nor cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue". From the diction used we can tell that Hamlet is disgusted and saddened by these quick events which in turn makes us agree with his feelings.
Soon after, Hamlet had spoken with his father's ghost whom revealed the truth of what has happened. Hamlet leaves vengeful and determined to send his uncle to hell for his crimes. Hamlet has now gone from disgust to anger, "O villain, villain, smiling damned villain". At this point of the tale Hamlets shift reveals the antagonist of our story: King Claudius. This then lets us pull a few points together with Hamlet to be able to aim our hate towards Claudius wishing that Hamlet be able to fulfil his promise.
Hamlet, though, begins to doubt his promise. He ponders the reality behind this high stacked goal, and the huge repercussions that could come along with it. We see along with him that jumping to conclusions may not have been the right path to take. Perhaps it would have been best to have some kind of proof. Hamlet decides to use a play to hopefully see if his uncle could really have committed such a wretched crime. If Claudius reveals it then Hamlet would indeed focus his life on fulfilling his promise to his father along with bringing us closer to the story's climax.
And with that we found that Hamlet's changes made us change our thoughts and views on this tragedy. Change isn't a bad thing. It reveals to us how we need to everything through. And like that friend and Hamlet how have you changed along with your thoughts, hopes, actions, and goals in the events of your life, of your story.
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