Hamlet: A Man of Many Qualities :: Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

critical point A Man of Many Qualities  Hamlet is a objet dart of many different qualities and he reveals only certainqualities to certain people.  Hamlet draws his audience, the reader, intonoticing the different qualities that he has.  His qualities are shown throughhis colloquys with other characters as well as through his soliloquies.These words of wisdom and revealance help to distinguish how Hamlet feels abouteach other character that he encounters.  The phrases and speeches that Hamletaddresses are both poetical and piercing.  So when Hamlet is speaking, he isconstantly revealing his qualities which range from love, to respect, to hate.Hamlets most powerful qualities seem to be revealed through his conversationwith the people that he cares about, that is to say his family and friends. The queen, Gertrude, is hamlets mother and she is probably the living beingthat he cares about the most.  Unfortunately, one of Hamlets qualities, whichis re vealed in conversation with his mother, is a negative one and that is anger. His quality is displayed through Hamlets soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 2, Lines131 161.  Hamlet is angry at his mother for marrying a new husband, his uncle,Claudius, so quickly after his fathers death.  This anger shines through insuch phrases such as Frailty, thy name is woman(Act 1,Sc 2, L148) and LikeNiobe, all tears.(Act 1, Sc 2, L151).  At the end of his soliloquy, Hamletswitches qualities from one of anger to one of fear.  This is sheer whenHamlet states, With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, and It is not, norit cannot come to healthy, and finally But break my heart, for I must hold mytongue(Act 1, Sc 2 L157 161).  Hamlet expresses his fear for his mothershasty marriage.  Hamlet realizes that his mother marrying his uncle can have nogood result.  Respect is another quality that Hamlet displays in conversationwith his mother.  This occurs when his mother asks him to remain at home ratherthan return to school(Act 1, Sc 2, L120121), which he agrees to do. This showsthat although he disagrees with his mother and her marriage, after such littlemourning for her husband, Hamlet Sr.s, death, he still respects his mother andwill do what she asks. Later in the act, Hamlet encounters another character who goes by the name ofHoratio.  Horatio is a good friend, as stated in Act 1, Sc 2, L163, and thefirst quality which Hamlet reveals is his respect for Horatio.  In line 176 ofAct 1, Sc 2, Hamlet states I know you are no truant.