Character,_Plot,_and_Theme_Development

Character, Plot, and Theme Development The play “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, contains complex scenes that interlock; using a mastery of words and hidden meanings behind phrases. Since each scene is a piece that connects to another; it is vital that each scene has certain actions and reactions to bring out other meanings in the play. Thus making character, theme, and plot development critical to each scene. Such development can be tracked through individual scenes and is evident in Act 3, scene 4 as any other. In this scene character development expands immensely. Hamlet, in a fit of rage, demonstrates that he does possess the ability to act by killing Polonis. Polonis: “What, ho! Help, help; help!” Hamlet: “how now! Arat' Dead, for a ducat, dead!” Polonis: “O, I am slain”(Act 3, Scene4, line 23-25). This murder is what Hamlet expected to be the demise of Claudius, but is shocked to discover Polonis behind the curtain. Hamlet then turns his aggressions back toward Gertrude; consequently we learn why Hamlet is so upset with his mother as he says: “Such an act. That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; calls virtue hypotite; takes off the rose From shakespeare, hamlet, scene, gertrude, act, line, actions, ghost, love, hamlets, thou, play, theme, speak, plot, marriage, honor, each, claudius, another, very, truth, soul, revenge, murder, development, character, between, about, words, two, towards, thy, stop, spirit, said, polonius, mother, mine, life, laertes, insight, hasty, hast, gertrude’s, feelings, conversation, claudius’s, behind, back