Agreeing with Samuel Johnson

 I agree with Johnson, if I were to choose one single word to describe Hamlet it would be “variety”.  Throughout this whole play we encounter numerous different situations, we go from Hamlets feigned madness to Ophelia’s heart touching tenderness to Laertes’s agony over his father’s death.  As the audience we may find ourselves confused with the play because of how this situations sometimes contradict themselves, such as when Hamlet decides to kill Claudius but keeps finding excuses as not to do it.  It is this array of different situations which made Hamlet  the most renowned drama of all times.