Hamlet Critical Viewing and Analysis a) In the in which Aphelia returns tokens of love from him (Hamlet), William Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as first as a normal man, but then as Aphelia returns his tokens of love, he seems to enter his “so-called” state of madness. Shakespeare seems to reflect him as a character that just suddenly hits madness when he is turned down by Aphelia, which is the reason that all the people in …showed first 75 words of 902 total…

…showed last 75 words of 902 total…character that her was. Zeffirelli had also show this great awareness that Hamlet had when Polonius was talking to Aphelia about not seeing Hamlet and when he picked up as to what was going on. And a fourth reason is that Zeffirelli had to make this movie as entertaining as possible, because that’s what all directors do. They change the script, change the scenes, and just about anything else to make the movie entertaining.