Title: The Inner and Outer Hamlet. The inherent nature of drama consists… | by J.G.R. Penton | Literary Analyses | Medium
Headings: The Inner and Outer Hamlet
The Inner and Outer Hamlet
INTERNAL CONFLICT
OUTWARD CONFLICT
CONCLUSION
Works Cited

Content: Drama reflects life and by reflecting life it mirrors the struggles, problems, and circumstances of the reader. Therefore, drama necessarily works in conflict at various levels to the same effect that the human experience reflects conflict at different levels. William Shakespeare achieves the necessary elements of conflict throughout Hamlet by creating an inward conflict focusing on Hamlet’s struggle to avenge his father. In this case, Shakespeare focuses on Hamlet’s powerful oedipal complex. Externally, Shakespeare sketches the outward conflict around the legitimacy of Hamlet’s claim to the crown. INTERNAL CONFLICT
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The inward conflict in Hamlet lies in the psychological malcontent of the play’s titular character, Hamlet. At an internal level, Hamlet seems to be delaying his revenge because he is divided by his mother’s betrayal of his father, which is a constant preoccupation for him. This internal preoccupation is at odds with the ghost’s order for vengeance. Tabassum Javed in “Perfect Idealism in Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet” ascribes Hamlet’s internal conflict to a clash between his own grief and the ghost’s demand for vengeance. Javed states, “he can save himself and Denmark by killing Claudius, but to kill Claudius is to act out his father’s wish and the disaster for Hamlet is that this course of action perfectly coincides with the solution of his own problem.