Critical essay

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The argument needs a sharper focus. That the play is a revenge play is not quite sharp or argumentative enough; focus as soon as possible on some aspect of revenge in the play — perhaps the most significant ways each son’s approach is different. At this stage, the argument is unclear, and development stalls.

By the time you discuss Gertrude, there is a better focus for that particular sub-topic, and that might help you define the broader argument: Hamlet’s purposes seem more complicated that those of Fortinbras or Laertes.

The later development is good, and needs mainly to be reframed slightly after your main argument is clearer.

MLA: look up how to format various types of titles.


Although she wasn’t part of the conspiracy to kill his father, he felt betrayed by her decision to marry him so soon after his father had died (Stragman, 44) .

I think you should say Claudius instead of using singular third person view. “Him” here may confuse readers that it is Hamlet since you mentioned him earlier in the senten

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