Part one of term paper
William Shakespeare's Hamlet can be defined as a revenge tragedy. In Shakespeare's tragedies the reader sees a noble, heroic central character who is destroyed because a defect in his character either causes him to involve himself in circumstances which overpower him, or makes him incapable of dealing with a destructive situation caused by an ...

Part two of term paper
... a prince of extraordinary intelligence: and, as the action of the play proves, he is heroic. His defect (indecision, excessive imagination, irrationality, madness, etc.) prevents him from seizing control of the world Claudius has created. His death closes the play, but only after he experiences and expresses illuminations about human life and death. Hamlet begins after Hamlet's father has died. This has casted an unwanted and heavy cloud upon Hamlet's soul. Throughout the play Hamlet lea ...