Hamlet's Paradox Of Man
Shakespeare was a man ahead of his time. He was a man who had an ability to
portray the inner workings of humanity. Throughout his masterful works he was able to
peer into the human psyche and capture emotions like no other writer has been able to do.
He filled every one of his plays, most notably Hamlet, with eternal truths concerning
human emotions. Shakespeare develops the paradox of man and contradictions of
humanity with imagery, ironic siloques, and philosophical rants by Hamlet and Claudius.
No one has ever returned from the dead. Nobody knows exactly what life after
death is like. This is the thesis of Hamlet's first paradox. The saying that "grass is always
greener on the other side of the fence" does not hold true when dealing with human life.
Life is a struggling, so why do we endure it? Hamlet reminds us that " . . . in that sleep of
death what dreams may come,/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/ Must give us
pause" (III.i.67-69). The reason that......
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