Analysis Of William Shakespeare s Hamlet - 1385 Words

One of the three major themes of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is that of the gulf between what appears to be and what something is in reality: in other words, to distinguish between what is fake interpretation from what they truly are. There is a degree of deceit, lies, deception cloaked by a perception of honesty within the play; we will refer to this concept as â€Å"the mask.† The theme of perception vs reality is so woodenly interlaced into the play due to the idea that most of the central characters in the play hide behind the mask to conceal their true intentions whilst struggling to learn the intentions inner thoughts of other characters. The article â€Å"How Our Perceptions Shape Our Reality,† written by Morty Lefkoe, mentions: â€Å"We†¦show more content†¦Although all of us exist in the same world, people have the tendency to focus on what we have â€Å"tuned† to seek. Morty Lefkoe, the creator of the Lefkoe Method and author of th e article â€Å"How Our Perceptions Shape Our Reality,† evaluates this idea. Lefkoe states: â€Å"We swear things exist because we distinguish them through our particular perceptual apparatus through our language. Change those you dramatically change the world you think is ‘out there’† (Lefkoe 5). In a sense, we all see the same world by the same means, but it is how we individually see the world that differentiates from what is real to some and not for others. Henceforth, perception shapes our reality in total extent. Without being able to perceive, distinguish everything that exists from one another with the use of our senses and language, our lives would be accurately simulated by a state of narcosis; we would all be in deep sleep without any dreams to experience. However, despite social, political, and religious forces constantly forging our behavior and views, dictating our every action, there is still room for personal logic to purge these nurtured preconceptions. In the way that hallucinogens and other various drugs alter our perceived notions of the world via manipulating our frame of mind, adjustments in our depth of field can have equally strong