Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

In this article I attempt to re-read different attitudes of two protagonists in Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the perspective of ecocriticism, which main focus is to examine human relations with nature, in a broad sense of the term. I claim that Hamlet and Ophelia represent contrasting attitudes to nature, namely, Hamlet’s utterances testify to his ecophobic attitude, while Ophelia’s words – to her eco-friendly orientation. I will try to prove my thesis on the selected examples drawn from Shakespeare’s drama.