Part 1 of Essay
Throughout Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, feelings and passion are an enormous distraction for the main character Hamlet. Hamlet tends to act as though he were an adolescent rather than a grown man. He acts very immature, sarcastic, and takes action, before thinking it out, in the heat of anger. The abilities to love, c ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (V,i, 264-266) Hamlet is too immature to love her enough to trust her in their relationship. This trust that he is lacking will give him the ability to hand Ophelia the key to his madness however, due to immaturity he is unable to hand her the key. Because of Hamlet's immaturity this same madness enables him to act extremely irrational at times, such as killing Polonius. Most mature people will take the ti ....