What can you say about Hamlet, the main character of “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark?

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, two worlds collided: the old world, where the power of gold and pernicious passions reign. All the time we gradually lost faith in triumph, justice, fraternity. It was at this turn of the era that the English playwright William Shakespeare created his most problematic and deepest work - the tragedy Hamlet. Coming for the Danish Hamlet, who is a free hero of the tragedy, is a typical intellectual humanist of the Renaissance variety. He truly believed in man.

Hamlet is a university student, surrounded by friends and full of ardent love for life. The main character does not know that his view of the world will shatter like smoke when he first encounters reality. Hamlet will have to feel, so to speak, all doubts inherent in man in general, and two conflicting feelings possess his soul. Hamlet returns to Elsinore after the unexpected death of his father the king. The prince learns that his mother, Queen Gertrude, too quickly married the worthless and cunning Claudius, who poisoned the king. Thus, Queen Gertrude betrayed not only her husband, but also her son. Hamlet vows to avenge the death of his father. From now on, revenge becomes the main content of his life.

Hamlet takes personal responsibility for the world's evil, for all the imperfections of life, for all the sufferings of people. The main character, acutely feeling his loneliness and realizing his powerlessness, still goes into battle and dies as a fighter. The behavior of Hamlet in the final action of the tragedy is a model of human behavior, the meaning of which is that thought must be bold, thoughts - clear, conscience and soul - untainted. The tragedy "Hamlet", like other works of William Shakespeare, raises eternal problems: contradictions between reality and the ideal, the discrepancy between the goal and the means of their achievement, the role of the individual in the history of mankind.