Shakespeare created "Hamlet" under the background of the Renaissance.
The Renaissance movement brought Europe into an era of human awakening, and people's faith in God began to waver. Doing whatever you want under the banner of individual liberation was a trend of the times at that time.
On the one hand, this is the great emancipation of thought, which promotes the great development of social civilization; on the other hand, especially in the late Renaissance, what follows is the proliferation of selfish desires and social chaos.
Faced with such a passionate and chaotic era, the middle-aged Shakespeare no longer indulged in the optimism and romance brought by humanistic ideals as he did in the early days, but showed his concern for ideals. and the hidden dangers behind progress, thus creating "Hamlet".
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Shakespeare's "Hamlet" uses the history of Denmark in the eighth century to reflect the social reality of England at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Britain at that time was an era of confusion and confusion, and "Hamlet" was the epitome of this era.
The struggle between Hamlet and Claudius in the play symbolizes the struggle between the emerging bourgeois humanists and the reactionary representatives of the feudal royal power. Through this struggle, the work reflects the contradiction between humanistic ideals and the dark feudal reality of Britain.
It reveals the desperate struggle for power between the British feudal aristocratic landowner class and the emerging bourgeoisie, and criticizes the criminal behavior of the royal power and the evil feudal forces.
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