Modernist Shakespeare

I do not think Shakespeare was a modernist or a postmodernist. Those movements had not even come around yet. I think he was a dark romanticist. Although that movement wasn't really around, that is what he was. Hamlet is a hero whose dark qualities lead him to depression and murder. The protaganist is not some perfect man who does everything right. Instead, he does everything wrong including loving his mom, accidentally killing Polonius, and insulting everyone. The play, Hamlet, is built off of ideas such as revenge and adultery.