tional effects on the audience but also reveals Hamlets thought his anger, passion, and anxiety to lead Gertrude to the right direction. In addition to Hamlets thought, this passage further reveals many aspects of the character Hamlet, contributing significantly to the pity and fear aroused by the whole play; his virtue produces the pity, his tragic flaw the fear. Hamlets virtue revealed in this passage that makes him a noble character is his moral stand, especially his honesty and hatred against Gertrudes adultery and lust. Passages like Mother, for love of grace, lay not that flattering unction to your soul, that not your trespass but my madness speaks (III, iv, 145) and Confess yourself to heaven, repent whats past (III, iv, 150) show that Hamlet denounces Gertrudes dull sense of honesty and urges her to be honest with God, revealing that Hamlet puts importance on the virtue of honesty and loathes dishonesty. He himself practices honesty, saying For this same lord, I do repent.I will bestow him and will answer well the death I gave him. (III, iv, 173) He could have blamed Polonius for spying on him, but he takes the full responsibility and admits his fault; it is clear that he is very fair and just, compared to Gertrude.Another moral virtue in this passage is his hatred against the evil, or Gertrudes adultery and lust in this passage. He openly asks her to go not to my uncles bed. Assume a virtue, if you have it no. (III, iv, 160) For a character like Hamlet, who values morality as one of the most important virtues, Gertrudes adultery must have been a great pain and inhumane act. These two virtues, honesty and hatred against adultery and lust, make Hamlet the noble character in this passage, and the audience feel pity for him because they regret the downfall of such moral man.However, a tragic hero should have a tragic flaw that makes him more like ordinary people, for only then the audience feels the fear that the same thin...
