Hamlet In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist exhibits a puzzling, duplicitous nature. Hamlet contradicts throughout the play. He supports both the virtues of acting a role and that of being true to one’s self. He further supports both of these conflicting endorsements with his actions. This ambiguity is demonstrated by his alleged madness, for he does behave madly, only tome perfectly calm and rational an instant later. He struggles with the issue of …showed first 75 words of 531 total…

…showed last 75 words of 531 total…Hamlet can be deemed successful in the end, because he has redeemed the wrongs committed against his person if not his father’s. He lacks some interior ability to commit bloody revenge for some victim other than himself. However, Claudius eventually unites Hamlet’s passion to avenge the old king with his need for primary injury, which causes Claudius’s death and the satisfaction of all Hamlet’s goals, both for himself and his father.