From psychologically viewing the plays, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello it seems that these three tragedies all connect. Shakespeare has a way of manipulating the audience into feeling compassionate towards acts that the usually wouldn’t be compassionate towards. These acts may include insanity, murder, or betrayal. And Shakespeare also has a way of leaving the audience to ponder what the outcome would have been if one certain event may not have happened. Shakespeare’s tragedies will certainly stick in many people’s minds and hearts for years to come because of the power and reality of Shakespeare’s characters.Shakespeare's Hamlet is a complex story of revenge, the lack of love, and the "madness" of Hamlet. This play is fueled by the the people of the Elizabethean and Jacobean period. It is a revenge play that included the elements for a revenge play that the people wanted. They wanted a hero to avenge an evil deed, scenes of death and mutilation, insanity or feigned insanity, sub-plays, and the violent death of the hero. Shakespeare knew what the people of this era wanted and he combined it together to create one of the best plays of that time and all-time: Hamlet.Shakespeare was able to make this play so great because Hamlet was a great character. Most people could relate to what he did and why he did it. He was a real person; mourning the loss of his father and rejecting the man who was to take his father's place. This play was maybe the first time that the audience was able to come to understand the insanity of a man. Hamlet is faced with some of the biggest difficulties a man can be faced with. How to handle the situation with his uncle and mother, the loss of his father, and a girlfriend who betrayed him is what drove Hamlet to be crazy. This play enables the audience to feel a pang of sympathy toward Hamlet even when they might not agree with what he is doing. Another key point in Hamlet is...
