Talk:Prince Hamlet

message: Hamlet certainly *does* suspect the Ghost is a devil trying to trick him into damnation; he says so at the end of the "rogue and peasant slave" soliloquy (II.ii.594-599 in Arden).  I can't see how to salvage this paragraph after correcting the error, so I'm cutting it for now; can anyone make it make sense? —Celithemis 05:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hamlet's delay 

message: Some scholars have argued that Claudius is actually Hamlet's father as discovered by a teenager growing up: not a gentle and protective man who cares for his family and his people, but rather a man with frailties, naked ambition, sexual impulses, etc. I don't know how much weight this view has in the overall Shakes-phere, but maybe it deserves a proper citation. The Oedipal argument presented as of now is weak and obscure. elpincha 08:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Oedipal hypothesis not developed

message: I've never read the play, but it says under Horatio's character description that he is the only character to have free "sexual relations" with Hamlet. That just seems unlikely to be in the play, but who knows. 24.65.141.226 05:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does the article still say this? If so where? It sounds like vandalism to me? AndyJones 14:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I think the better interprtation of the line is that Horatio is contemplating suicide: in Roman times suicide was considred a noble end (consider the actions of the defeated leaders at the end of Julius Caesar) whereas in Denmark it was not: being a Christian country where it was known that the "everlasting" had "set his canon 'gainst self-slaughter". AndyJones 14:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hamlet love Horatio? 

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message: There is an empty section about Hamlet's age. The reason I looked up this article was precisely the question of his age. It would be lovely if someone could expand this... -- megA (talk) 15:40, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty section: [[Prince_Hamlet#Hamlet.27s_age|Hamlet's Age]] 

message: > Prince Hamlet is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.
How can he, an apparently psycho-pathologic serial killer, be a protagonist? He should be a co-antagonist, but if the article wants to be NPOV, Hamlet should be named as the "central character" of the play and that's it.
Most modern people, who are not descended from the excessively violent anglo-american-wiking gene line, are repulsed by the brute danish prince, who poses as intelligentsia just to make his murder spree look cool. He is much like a retroactive Hannibal Lecter and definitely should not be called a protagonist. 82.131.210.163 (talk) 12:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead is fine. Your statement is what is very POV. He fits the protagonist definition perfectly. If he's not the protagonist, who is? And can you find a reliable source reference for it anywhere? -- JoannaSerah (talk) 13:50, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Even the beginning of this article is very much un-NPOV. 

message: First, apologies for the unprofessional edit summary I just made. However, the etymology section seems seriously flawed and so badly written that it's quite hard to follow. Does anyone know enough about it to rewrite it? garik (talk) 01:27, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology Section 

message: Why, when there is at all times a real Danish monarchy with successors? 2601:642:4600:D3B0:A484:57D6:A62A:401 (talk) 15:28, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: "Prince of Denmark" redirects here