HAMLETs THEMATIC ANALYSIS

Lesson Key Points
Hamlet’s Religion and Heroism
Hamlet’s Politics and contemplation
Hamlet’s Affections
Hamlet’s Madness and Philosophy

Religion:
Is Hamlet a Protestant or a Catholic Play?
Is Hamlet Religious or Pagan?
Does Claudius repent?
How is Marrying a brother’s widow
considered an act of incest?
Is committing suicide blasphemous?
Are there any references to the BIBLE?

CatholicAspects
Protestant Aspects
Ghost
Remembrance
Marry the
brother’s
widow
Study in France
Committing
Suicide
Demons
Forgetfulness
Philosophy
Divorce
Study
in Wittenberg

As a play, Hamlet tackeles religious realities that
might have proven dangeous during Elizabethan
England.
The play discusses religious identity and mixes
up the new with the old in order to reflect back a
socio-political reality of the age.
Personifying a Ghost on a protestant theatre
might have posed several questions about the
nature of the dramatist’s or his collaborators’
religious affiliations.