Hamlet, the anti-hero
Hamlet is the most modern among all the characters of Shakespeare; all the creatures of his fantasy are usually modern because they belong to all times, the mark of genius made them eternal. But Hamlet is particularly modern: all the psychological conflicts of present-day epoch are reflected inside him. As the nineteenth century prefered "Othello", with his romantic contrast between light and darkness, between fairness and trearchery, as our century recognize in Hamlet. He is the first theatre character of whom it is possible to speak about incommunicability: it surrounds him like a wall, it makes him extraneous to someone else, to his similars, to woman whom he loves, and himself too, as if his real Ego was escape in some remote and inaccessible area of Being. Hamlet isn't, like a critic says, in the place where happen his life: he has air of a man whom speak you from the other bank of a river. The depth of a world in crisis feels inside him: in to create him, Shakespeare looks to feel of diffused gloom of that "end-century" which was also the end of Elizabeth's reign . Hamlet, student prince, in temporary leave from university of Wittemberg, reflects conflicts, frustrations and irony of young students of those 90's.