【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 at so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together。 And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, e, let39。s go together. Oath, Hamlet must be resolutely with this natural expression of a firm belief in his own revenge. On the other hand, killing enemies, which was the seemingly simple act for ordinary people, was hard to understand for Hamlet. He had several occasions to kill enemies of the great opportunities, but under the mischief in this plex, the revenge plan fell short of success again and again. Even when he encountered Claudius in prayer for his own sins, the idea of revenge was just moments away, then he transferred to think of timing： Now might I do it pat, now he is praying。 And now I39。ll do39。t. And so he goes to heaven。 And so am I revenged. That would be scann39。d: A villain kills my father。 and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. Hamlet struggled to turn his desire for revenge into action, and spent a large portion of the play waiting rather than doing. Hamlet felt for his victim, fearing to strike because he believed that if he killed Claudius he would be no better than him. Hamlet frequently admired those who were swift to act, such as Laertes, who came to avenge his father39。s death, but at the same time feared them for their passion, intensity, and lack of logical thought. He refused to kill an unarmed man, or that he felt guilty in this moment, seeing himself as a mirror of the man he wanted to destroy. Thus, for Hamlet to truly keep the oath he made to his father, he must wait 6 for the right moment. To be, or not to be: that is the question. The issue has repeatedly troubled Hamlet, of course, referred to here is not only survival and death, but even with everything of value judgments, in the end to do or not to do, to go or not, at the expense or not to sacrifice? Rational thought can guide action, but too much thoughtful time so that action will be delayed. Too many concerns about the consequences, he is reluctant to make major decisions. “To die: to sleep。 no more。 and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.’tis a consummation devoutly to be wish39。d. To die: to sleep。 To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there39。s the rub: for in that sleep of death what dreams may e when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.” Hamlet thought of death again, and he immediately had a concern on it. He had too much consideration and hesitation. He didn’t know the world that he went to after death was agony or not. On the consideration of “to be or not to be”, he was still hesitating and deferred. This was a typical thinking of Hamlet。 his hesitation existed not only in action, but also in his thinking. Whether acting or thinking, Hamlet was so stagnant, often in the touch of nature can be flattering to dodge. “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all。 And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.” Obviously, indecision is the most important character of Hamlet. He estimated the power between the enemy and himself accurately. He knew that the power of Claudius was too great to fight. Times have been reversed in the whole mess, and the only saver was himself. So he sent all the hope on himself, so as to one man fought against the whole society. He knew the fight longterm, arduous, plex and risky, which led to the hesitation of his action. He was the philosopher, not a doer. He was sensitive to thought and clumsy actions. He didn’t take action until he had a certain and feasible way. From thought to action, he required a more plex process than ordinary people. Then he considered too much so that he missed the golden opportunity to kill Claudius. Finally, his indecision of action led to his destruction. B. Melancholy Besides indecision, another character of Hamlet is melancholy. Owing to the disillusionment 7 of dream, he could not afford the overload of pressure, into the spiritual crisis, resulting in depression. From the beginning to his final destruction, depression never left him. Thus, if there is no depression, there is no Hamlet. External factors A. Objectively, the forces of different classes are not balanced. There is a great disparity between the feudality and humanism. The feudal forces are so powerful that Hamlet cannot fight against them and cause the tragedy of destiny. B. The limitation of Humanism is another factor affects the destiny of Hamlet. Hamlet is a typical image reflected the humanistic ideals. He had an inpatible contradiction with reality. And on the process of his revenge, sadness, depression, hesitation, and the tragedy of failure, not only profoundly reflected the strong desire that humanists required to break the feudal forces, but also revealed the limitations of early British bourgeoisie. The Hamlet was the humanist ideals and the reality of this irreconcilable contradiction led to the inevitable tragedy of his life. 8 III The Old Man and the Sea The main idea of The Old Man and the Sea The book is about a fisherman called Santiago in Cuba, who went fishing alone in the sea. He didn’t catch a fish in consecutive 84 days until he caught a tremendous marlin in the 85th day. The marlin was two feet longer than the boat, which the old man had never seen and heard of it before in the Gulf Stream. The power of the marlin was very large, dragging the boat drifted for two days and nights. During two days and nights, he fought against the fish and experienced a tough test tha