Please Read This Warning Before You Use This Essay for Anything (It Might Save Everyone contains a tinge of Hamlet in his feelings, wants, and worries, and proudly so, for Hamlet is not like the other tragic He stands apart from other Shakespeare's heroesin his today much discussed innocence. Is this supposed tragic heromaybe an ideal hero - one without the tragic flaw, which has been apart of the formula for the tragedy since the Golden age of Greece?; isa question that has been the field for many literary critics' battles.The main, and, most often, the only flaw that has been attributed toHamlet is his delay. This seems to constitute the central part inHamlet. Critics seem to cling to this detail, as if trying to save thestatus of Hamlet as a typical Elizabethan tragedy of revenge. By thedefinition of tragedy, there should exist a flaw in the character ofthe main hero, who is a great personality that is engaged in astruggle that ends catastrophically (Stratford, 90). If Hamlet had noflaw, what kind of tragic hero is he? No doubt, Hamlet is a tragicaldrama, for it has many characters "from the top" ending up losing theirlives. But the play wouldn't lose its tragic tone if Hamlet was a anideal hero instead of tragic one, which is exactly the case. If justall critic realized this, maybe today we wouldn't have that muchtrouble trying to "decipher" Hamlet's character, just like Elizabethanaudience never raised any questions concerning Hamlet's delay. It wasonly in the last two centuries, that the audience and their perceptionshave drastically changed, which causes this confusion concerning thecharacter that was created by Shakespeare for common people, someignorant ones among them, perhaps. Hamlet is like a soldier that is thrown into a war where hehas to do some things he rather would avoid doing, but under the givencircumstances he bites his teeth and carries himself well (Stratford,128). In this war, the circumstances brought on by ...
