求一篇Hamlet :To be or not to be 英文分析文章

求一篇Hamlet :To be or not to be 英文分析文章
''选择生存,其实就是哈姆雷特王子选择了放弃复仇,但是选择毁灭,则意味着同归于尽,即哈姆雷特王子选择复仇.那么我认为莎翁其实是希望哈姆雷特选择生存,而非毁灭.这本书无疑向我们传达了一个思想,人应该高贵善良具有一切美德,但是在残酷的现实中,人性有时会变得邪恶.也许这个思想才是莎翁的最后结论.''用以上结论结论为论点,写一篇关于to be or not to be 英文作文,500字

It is said not without reason that the key-note of Hamlet’s character is melancholy, and there can be no Hamlet without melancholy. But his melancholy is not the negative, over-subtle and fruitless kind. It is rather the result of his penetrating mind. When a sudden demand for difficult and decisive action arises, he is capable of tuning the matter over most methodically in his mind. Before taking a decisive step, he would ask himself:“How am I to do it? When? Where? What will be the consequence to the state? What is the good of doing it in such a world as this?”
At the beginning of the play, he is grieved at his father’s death and his mother’s hasty marriage with his uncle, a man utterly contemptible and loathsome. With his usual quick sensibility, he probes and examines the matter. Then there comes the revelation of his father’s murder, and in the “play scene” his uncle’s crime is ascertained. He burns with the hatred of his uncle and takes a solemn oath to avenge the triple wrong of grows deeper and deeper until it becomes at last a total disgust for a world in which such crimes prevail. Now he sees that cruel and unjust rulers are tyrannizing the country and his beloved country is a prison for the people. He seems to understand that his mere revenge upon his uncle would in no way solve the problems that trouble and upset him. Revenge is easy, but it is not mere personal revenge that Hamlet seeks. What is more important is to expose the roots of the evil and to establish a reign of justice. His responsibility is thus enlarged into nothing short of a radical transformation of society.
“The time is out of joint:--O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!” (Ⅰ.5. Shakespeare)
Thus the shock of a dreadful personal wrong awakens him to the realization of a great responsibility, the reformation of the world as a whole. But to realize his ideal in his own time was beyond him. This, and this only, is the cause of Hamlet’s profound melancholy and his delay in revenge. So Hamlet’s melancholy expresses, in a way, the crisis of humanism at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries.
We may illustrate the view mentioned above with one incident in the play. When the players come to the court, Hamlet conceives and arranges the plan of acting a scene of murder before the King and Queen. Hamlet’s device proves a complete success. When only six lines have been spoken by the player on the stage, the King starts to his feet and rushes out of the hall. Hamlet is beyond himself with the joy of discover. He declares that now he could
“…drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”(Ⅲ.2. Shakespeare)
In this mood, and on his way to his mother’s chamber, he comes upon the King, alone, Kneeling, conscience-stricken and attempting to play. The enemy is now delivered into his hands:
“Now might I do it pat, now he is praying:
And now I’ll do it: and so he goes to heaven:
And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.”
(Ⅲ.3. Shakespeare)
He scanned it; and the sword that he drew at the words, “And now I’ll do it,” is trust back into its sheath again. The reason Hamlet gives for his refusing to kill the King is that if he kill the villain now, he would send his soul to heaven; and he would fain kill soul as well as body. But what he really shrinks from is the responsibility of premeditated killing of a king and its political result, because at that time the abrupt death of the King might cause panic to the people and danger to the state. So what he considers now is no longer his personal wrong but the fate of his country. This is the real reason of his delay in action.