Hamelti tegelased (Ingilse keeles)
and clever readers come away with the sense that they don't know everything there is to know about this
character. Hamlet actually tells other characters that there is more to him than meets the eye--notably, his
mother, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern--but his fascination involves much more than this. When he speaks,
he sounds as if there's something important he's not saying, maybe something even he is not aware of. The
ability to write soliloquies and dialogues that create this effect is one of Shakespeare's most impressive
achievements.
A university student whose studies are interrupted by his father's death, Hamlet is extremely philosophical and
contemplative. He is particularly drawn to difficult questions or questions that cannot be answered with any
certainty. Faced with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, evidence that any other character in a play