Discuss how Hamlet by Shakespeare is a tragedy.

A Shakespearean tragedy is a house of many mansion. It is
built up of five stories, the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling
action and the catastrophe. It has a hero who rises from scene to scene on the waves of
passion and imagination till at last, having reached the heights of tragedy, he
disappears through death and lives immortally in the hearts of the
audience.

Traits and Humours of
Tragedy

Faith
/Destiny in
Tragedy

Conflict
of Good and involving Tragic
Waste

These are the main headings
which highlights in the Shakespearean tragedy.As Character, said to be destiny, in
Shakespearean tragedy. That is the hero's character determines his fate and destiny. As
one of the characters puts it

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" Our deeds are ours, but not their
ends
"

Also
the scene of fate is present in the from of visits from the supernatural world. The
Ghost in Shakespearean tragedies is a symbol of such divine manifestations. As Hamlet
puts it to his friend Horatio, the
sceptic,

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"There is a divinity that shapes our
ends,

Rough hew them, how you
will."

Thus Fate
and Free Will , Freedom and Necessity are both present in a Shakespearean
tragedy.

Again, the Shakespearean tragedy arise out of the
conflict of good and evil. It is a conflict which involves a terrible waste of good in
the destruction of evil.Hamlet, sweet prince of Denmark, Ophelia, flower like and
fragile, Polonius, harmless old bore, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, young school fellows
of Prince Hamlet - all these are mercilessly killed in the mighty rush of tragic action
whose source is the fatal flaw in the hero's character, though it is fed by many
contributory streams of chance and change and circumstance.The molehill of Hamlet's
fatal delay is turned into a mountain of devastating woes and
sufferings.

Final Impression of
Tragedy

The final impression left
by witnessing a Shakespearean tragedy is not an unmixed terror and tragic waste. It is
relieved by a since of exaltation and admiration for the nobility of character which
fights while it falls, and which redeems human nature by its flights of imagination,
will and emotion.We are reminded by Hamlet's soliloquy, is a piece of work, infinitely
wonderful, pitiful, grand and sublime. It is the poetry Shakespeare which relieves the
tension of the tragic feelings, and which sings the sweetest songs out of the saddest
thoughts.The memories of the hero and his associates, who reassure us out of our shaken
and shocked feeling, into a joyful acceptance of life which with all its veils of tears
is yet potentially rich in possibilities that become actualities in a Hamlet, and his
other tragedies.It feels that it is better to have loved and lost them than never to
have had the opportunity of loving them, which the Shakespearean tragedy
offers.