Hamlet: A Tool Of A Higher Power
Hamlet: A Tool of a Higher Power
Kristine Theobald
Throughout Shakespeare's Hamlet, it seems that a higher spiritual power is
influencing the events taking place in the state of Denmark. A ghost of the
recently deceased King Hamlet appears to Young Hamlet telling him of his "most
foul and most unnatural murder" (1.5.30). This begins a chain of events leading
up to the martyrdom of Hamlet, and the spiritual cleansing of the throne of
Denmark.
Firstly, Hamlet sees the evil and contemptible state of life in Denmark.
Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and the Queen of Denmark, marries his Uncle soon after
the death of his father. ". . .The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth
the marriage tables" (1.2.189-90). Depressed, and most likely confused, Hamlet
speaks his first soliloquy in the play, else named 'the dram of evil' speech,
". . . Frailty, thy name is woman!
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's......
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