What is the main idea of the Hamlet story?

Answer 1

This is a very difficult question. It's not clear the play was meant to have a moral, or what the moral might have been. My personal best guess would be "know your own mind well enough to act both prudently and decisively." Other decent ones would be "Be decisive.", "Don't try to judge people as God does," or "Intelligence can be as much a burden as it is a virtue."

Answer 2

Hamlet is a very complicated play which has been a source of debate for 400 years. It does not have a "lesson" which can be simply told or that debate would have ended in 1602. In any case, Shakespeare's plays are intended as entertainment, not sermons. Nobody asks what the lesson of Charlie's Angels is.

Answer 3

At the very beginning of the play Hamlet (the prince of Denmark) is informed by his father's ghost that Hamlet's uncle and step-father (Claudius and current king of Denmark) murdered him (the old king) and married his (Hamlet's) mother, a combination of crimes that he (Hamlet) is horrified to realize. The rest of the play is concerned with Hamlet determining how best to achieve his revenge. He first seeks to confirm Claudius' guilt, after all ghosts aren't considered reliable sources. Having done this via a play-within-a-play-sort-of-trap Hamlet thought to kill Claudius while he was confessing at the altar but at the last moment decided that this was too good of a death for such crimes and thought up a protracted pretense of madness that tore the family apart and left a few innocent people dead. During this time Claudius gets his act together and think up a clever way to do-away-with Hamlet. It gets real complicated at the end and everybody ends up dead.

Answer 4

the theme of play hamlet is just only ..............to show us the right way.moreover it also tells us that money and fame does't matter but relationship matters