Introduction
This essay focuses on the William Shakespeare’s play No Fear and specifically on the part where the main character Hamlin hears and sees the players of the play he is making. It discusses the effects they have on Hamlin and the reasons for the effects coming up, what the players remind Hamlet of or what they might represent, and why in Hamlet, it initiates a response at the end like the soliloquy.
When Hamlet hears and sees the players it affects in a way that it makes him sad, it angers and it irritates him at the same time. Hamlet is now full of vengeance. This happens partly due to the fact that the play is about his uncle killing his father that outrages him and partly due to the fact that the players after hearing them, they do not actually act or perform as Hamlet wants and expects them to. The players represent the whole situation involving Hamlet’s father, his uncle and himself and the series of activities that led to his father’s death because of being killed by his uncle. In a more direct way, the players represent the people who were involved in his father’s murder both directly and indirectly. The players remind Hamlin of people who pretend to be good to you while in the real sense they backstab you and can reach to extends of even killing you just like what his uncle does to his father. Because of all this, it leads to the soliloquy at the end. Hamlin’s response using the soliloquy as he is depressed totally and is also thinking of committing suicide at that moment. However, at the same time he also thinks on whether not to act or to act. In a way, he encompasses the general killing of Claudius thing and if he should act or not against him. Overall, he considers life at a time where there is so much grief. He in simple terms thinks about the meaning of death and life in regards to Claudius and himself.
Works Cited
“No Fear Shakespeare Series” Hamlet. SparkNotes Editors. London: Oxford UP, 2005.
