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Symbols and Themes of Hamlet

Symbols of Hamlet

Ear

  • distort the truth
  • influence other people
  • serve as tools in corrupt quest of power
  • Claudius is the murderer who killed King Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear

Symbols of Hamlet

Themes of Hamlet

Yorick's Skull and the Graveyard

Poison

Revenge

  • a role in the play
  • symbol of disloyalty,

dishonestly, death

  • the decline of the body
  • a physical reminder of the finality of death
  • Polonius will be eaten by worms, even kings
  • reminds of the death of Hamlet's father, Polonius and Ophelia
  •   heard from the ghost
  •   the mouse trap
  •   pray in the room
  •   the sword fight

Symbols of Hamlet

Themes of Hamlet

Themes of Hamlet

The Ghost

Friendship

Love

  • King Hamlet
  • tells Hamlet the truth of his father’s death and tells him to revenge for it
  • spiritual perspective
  • death as transcendent
  • suffers between the heaven and the hell
  • a common element in revenge tragedy
  • told Horatio about the ghost
  •   plan the play
  •   help him to revenge
  • the person who supports for hamlet

-Ophelia

-the letter

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