Concetti Chiave
- Prince Hamlet seeks revenge against his uncle Claudius, who murdered Hamlet's father and married his mother, Gertrude.
- Hamlet feigns madness and inadvertently causes the death of Ofelia and her father, Polonius, as part of his revenge plot.
- The play-within-a-play reveals Claudius's guilt, leading to a tragic fencing match resulting in multiple deaths, including Hamlet's.
- Hamlet embodies the Renaissance man, characterized by deep introspection, indecision, and a struggle between thought and action.
- Shakespeare explores themes of life and death, highlighting Hamlet's pessimistic outlook and fear of the unknown after death.
The plot of this play is simple. Prince Hamlet learns from his father’s ghost that the present king of Denmark, his uncle Claudius, had murdered him after seducing his wife Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother. The father’s ghost ordered to Hamlet to revenge his death, so Hamlet pretended to be mad and refused the love of Ofelia. So she became mad and killed herself. After Hamlet killed Ofelia’s father, Polonius, because he was spying a conversation between Hamlet and his mother.
Then Hamlet wants to plan the performance of a play representing his uncle’s crime. The play confirms Claudius is guilty. At the end his uncle organise a fencing match between Hamlet and Ofelia’s brother, Laertes. During this duel Hamlet kill Laertes, but is in his turn a mortaly wound. 
Meanwhile Gertrude drinks from a poisoned cup prepared for Hamlet, and dies. So Hamlet gave the poisoned cup to his uncle in order to kill him. At the end everybody died and the primary order was re-establish.
Hamlet is a learn man, a thinking man, a pessimist man and an introspective man. His indecision comes from the contrast between the urge to act and the necessity to think.
He is the typical man of the Renaissance, because he always studies, that’s why he looks for solutions of his problems into books.
In this play Shakespeare analyses the two situations of life and death.
For Hamlet life is: struggle, suffering, fear and ill.
Hamlet doesn’t know if is better to be a man or nobody, whether to go on living or die, whether to act and kill or give up.
He thinks at the human problems in general. Hamlet has a pessimistic view of life and he prefers to die like dreaming or sleeping but he is afraid of the unknown after death.
Hamlet is more willing to think, thinking too much he cannot decide. He isn’t a good king for Shakespeare because he isn’t able to decide.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il tema principale della tragedia "Hamlet"?
- Come viene descritto il carattere di Amleto?
- Qual è la visione di Amleto sulla vita e la morte?
Il tema principale è la vendetta di Amleto contro suo zio Claudio, che ha ucciso suo padre e sposato sua madre, Gertrude. Amleto finge di essere pazzo per scoprire la verità e vendicare la morte del padre.
Amleto è descritto come un uomo colto, pensieroso, pessimista e introspettivo. La sua indecisione deriva dal contrasto tra l'urgenza di agire e la necessità di riflettere, tipico dell'uomo rinascimentale.
Amleto vede la vita come una lotta, sofferenza, paura e malattia. È indeciso se sia meglio vivere o morire, agire o rinunciare, e ha una visione pessimistica della vita, temendo l'ignoto dopo la morte.
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