Hamlet's Wave of Emotions“Hamlet”, the play by William Shakespeare, features the character of Hamlet who is the main focus of the play. Hamlet has recently lost his father and his mother soon remarries his uncle Claudius. Thus leading Hamlet to believe that something suspicious is going on between his parents. This becomes Hamlet's protagonist throughout the play, allowing him to seek the truth about what happened to his father. Whether his father was killed naturally or by Claudius himself. This search for Hamlet's truth is what sets him on a path of revenge and shifts his attitude from what it was to a vengeful spirit. During the play Hamlet experiences a loss of control over himself and this forces him to suffer the consequences of his actions. Starting from the first act, Hamlet's emotions and level of control are at a normal level even after the recent death of his father. Although with the death of his father it is reasonable to experience the five stages of grief, but when it comes to Hamlet the death of his father does not affect him until the recent sighting of his father's ghost. At first he approaches the subject with his head held high and logically imagining that Bernardo, Orazio and Marcello are simply crazy and seeing things. But as they try to convince him of what they saw, Hamlet tries to get to the heart of the situation and clarify everything, which shows the control he has in handling these strange situations. It is only at the end of the first act that Hamlet's control begins to waver because the ghost has spoken to him, approached him about his father's death. This is where Hamlet's emotions get the better of him and he allows himself to feel, get closer and closer to the situation at hand. The ghost now has a slight advantage in Hamlet... middle of paper... surrounds him. Once Hamlet loses control there was no way to free himself from his obsession and that became his downfall. The obsession came from the emotions of pain and anger, and when he was out of control these got lost in the obsession. Driving Hamlet mad because the obsession became his central goal allowing the obsession to become what killed him. The consequence of losing himself was actually death due to his emotions. There was no other way Hamlet could see that would allow him to live with what he had done and accept it. In the end the only logical thing he could do was fight to the death. Due to his state of mind, the only thing he had control over was revenge and once completed there was nothing left for him but to make his mark and focus his final moments on avenging his father. Works Cited Hamlet by William Shakespeare