Multifaceted personalities and oppinions

Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be - Hazlitt

Hamlet self-aware, focus on his identity — lacking of opportunity

Hamlet doesn’t have the fiery brashness that Laertes and Fortinbras have

The subject of Hamlet is Death - CS Lewis

Use of definitive article is dismissive, arrogant and profound

Hamlet motivated / interested by life and death

Bound to earth, but wants to be set free

“To be” preoccupies his thoughts,

Sends off R&G - dismissive of death

<aside> ❕ Subject of Hamlet the character as death but the play tackles a lot of things.

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Denmark politically poisonous, so he would rather die than be in impure, unjust Denmark

The only choice he has is death?

Bamber argues that Hamlet is incapable of love. She argues that Hamlet threw himself in the grave more ‘as an act of aggression against Laertus’

We don’t see moments of tenderness / privacy / compassion / vulnerability which we expect

Interactions with Ophelia dirty/flirty — love beyond that.

He doesn’t want to be outdone