Hamlet tragedy is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest ones, together with Macbeth and the Tempest. The Kingdom where the tragedy is set creates a dark atmosphere symbol of the instability of the country. In 
Denmark something is rotten, because the passing of the crown did not follow the natural order. The old king was murdered 
and his brother took his place and the King was still the micro-rapresentation of the God on earth. Hamlet has got a 
natural father whose name is Hamlet. Hamlet's father died and he begins to suspect that he has been murdered by his uncle, 
Claudius. The uncle has now married Hamlet's mother: Gertrude. It follows that he wants to take a revenge for his father. 
The context is developed on different levels of meaning: political level (Hamlet is a prince, the future king, so he has a kingdom), family level (Hamlet is a son who has a step father and a mother and this is the sphere of affection and love) and generation level (Hamlet is an adolescent, he belongs to the youth’s generation; this explain why he believes that the matter is right or wrong). 
He does not know how to face the situation, which is made more complex by Ophelia. She is a younh woman, who is in love 
with Hamlet, but he is only apparently in love with her. The thing that mostly conditions Hamlet is his mother. The woman 
in the charachter who creates the tragedy: she conditioned the father, the stepfather and the son. 
Hamlet does not know if Claudius, brother of his father, has murdered Hamlet, but he is not sure of the contrary too. 
Since when one night, he hears the voice of his father's ghost talking to him and asking for revenge. The setting of the 
scene is created by the obscurity of the night. Hamlet is scared because he can not control the situation. But the idea of 
his father's ghost gives him torment. The ghost becomes the symbol of the doubts of Hamlet's mind. Moreover, Hamlet may have his dubts about what the Ghost has told him. Before he can revenge himself, he must be absolutely sure that the King is guilty; so for the end of univerity, Hamlet calls dome actors to rapresent a 
show similar to his concerns of his father's murder. In front of such a problem, Hamlet wants to uderstand. To adopt to reality he uses creativity: he decides to pretend to be 
mad, crazy and he behaves accordingly. He acts with riddle, provoking people to understand him.
Shakespeare may have used Hamlet story to reflect the concerns oh his own time. Hamlet is desperate, the sorrow is too much; moreover, the hasty marriage to Claudius, the new king of Denmark, causes him melancholy. Further, when Queen Gertrude asks her son why his father’s death “seems” so important he replies that “it is” important. Hamlet debates suicide in his famous “To be or not to be”, he express his despair through thoughts of suicide, suggesting that suicide is an easy way to end life’s conflicts. But luckily he concludes that the fear of an unknown afterlife is what keep us living.