Hamlet Criticism :: Literary Analysis, Shakespeare, Classics

In &8220 village Literary Remains, Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes Hamlet as an intricate planner who&8217s thought process is long-winded and methodical. He describes Hamlet as someone having &8220Supercilious activities&8230of the mind, which, unseated from its healthy relation, is ever occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without&8230throwing a mist everywhere all common-place actualities. Cooleridge is explaining the fact that Hamlet seems to always be in his avow fantasy world when it comes to thinking about things that are going on in his life. Hamlet appears to be very caught up in his bear thoughts that he doesn&8217t have the time or ability to consider out his plans efficiently and effectively. Cooleridge contrasts Shakespeare&8217s intention of a tragedy in Hamlet to the play MacBeth. Cooleridge shows that Hamlet proceeds in his schemes with the utmost slowness, patch MacBeth has a pace that is crowded and moves with breathless rapididty . These two plays with themes of Greed and penalise are both rooted in the same systems of belief that are carried out in totally different directions. Cooleridge goes on to put that perfection is usually only found in one&8217s mind and is rare if impossible to find in reality. This is again shown by dint of the fact that Hamlet&8217s planning seems to take a backseat to mess and fate as the others end up dying from the poison, which they had planned to use against Hamlet. Cooleridge also stresses the inconsistency of Hamlet and his plans for revenge throughout the play. One consequence the audience believes that he cares greatly for Ophelia, and the next minute we see him screening a sort of disrespect for her at her funeral.