Hamlet's Acting

It is very hard to act out a character that changes of emotions like a women in her days. This two particular performances recreate two different perspectives that Hamlet has towards his father's dead. In one he is just criticizing his mother for marrying his uncle. He is sad and feels miserable for what happened to his father, but he can't resist to show this feeling of resent he has towards his mother for what he calls "a dextery to incestuous sheets" (Act 1, scene 2, line 15).

The second performance show us a totally different Hamlet this one has a thirst of revenge and a feeling of hate, because people don't believe what he found out about his father's dead. It is not longer a feeling of sadness but a sentiment of hate and anger towards the man who killed his father and the people who ignored his discoveries and treated him like a "pigeon-liver'd and lack gall" (Act 2 scene 2). 


Both feeling are trapped inside him and they come out of him in different times. This two performances are not the same because they represent different feeling Hamlet had at two different times. Although both are great representations of the character Hamlet they can't be compared because of the changing mental situation the main character is suffering at those different timings. 


Gabriela