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Now There Lies The Rub

Is the appearance of something always its true colors, or is it just layers upon layers giving the illusion something it truly real? Life throws many curves that may guide a person through life whether the curves are true or not. In the story of Hamlet, three lives are affected by these certain curves, and through out the story these characters change and fluctuate into new personas. Hamlet, Ophelia, and Gertrude are these three lives that change when appearance doesn’t truly reflect reality   “Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,   How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself   As I Perchance here after shall think meet   To put an antic disposition on,” Act I, Scene v, lines 169-172   This quote depicts how Hamlet was changing into a crazed man in order to speak his word and get what he wanted to prove that Claudius killed his father. During Act II, he begins to use his crazed persona to accuse and insult Polonius. His rude remarks hit Polonius hard, one being.   “Excellent well. You are a fishmonger?” Act II, Scene ii, line 173   Ophelia also goes through a variety of changes. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and also Hamlets lover. The reader first sees Ophelia in Act I, Scene III. She is in a meeting with her father and brother, the reader can immediately see a change in her as she fallows her father’s orders to deny Hamlets proposal and to give him back his belongings. This whole scene is strange because the reader can sense it’s not like her character to deny true love by what she is saying to her father yet she obeys. Act II, scene i; thus shows how she fallowed thru with her fathers demands, as this quote says   “No, my good lord; but, as you did command,   I did repel his letters and denied   His access to me” Act II, Scene i, Lines107 – 109   “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,   And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.   Do not for ever with thy vailed lids   Seek for thy noble father in the dust:   Thou know'st 'tis common,—all that lives must die,...