Hamlet Essay, Research Paper

Revenge For Your Father

In Shakespeare’s tragic epic Hamlet, one man is torn between loyalty of his new king or the revenge of his old king and past on father. Should Hamlet lose everything while his uncle controls what should be his? Many things led to the down fall of Hamlet some of them are the murderous acts of Claudius, the act loyalty to revenge the death of a king and father, and the great depression that Hamlet struggles to control.

In Hamlet there are many unfortunate events. The start of the unfortunate event is when the king is brutally murder. Cluadius seemed to bring curse a pawn everyone around him. By the murder of Hamlet’s father he was determined to avenge his death. Hamlet now had to avenge the death of his father and end the incestuous acts between a twisted uncle and mother. “He kills Polonius by accident, hoping that in a blind thrust through ther arras he might turn out at last to have dispatched the King…”(Murray pg131) Some may think that Hamlet let his emotions take over his actions in avenging his fathers’ death , but Ophelia and Laertes also lots a father and they too acted like out of control. Laertes also look for revenge toward his fathers’ killer just like Hamlet. Ophelia the sister of Laertes was unable to get revenge for her father Polonius lost her mind and committed suicide. Hamlet may too gone mad and taken his own life if he was unable to get revenge.

The ghost of Hamlet’s father give Hamlet the answer of revenge by telling him how the killer is. “The Ghost as a sort of symbol or allegory. Hamlet’s character and situation were well conceived to base such a hallucination upon.”(Santayana 128) The ghost gave Hamlet a great power inside to avenge his death. The ghost also to Hamlet of how the death of his father caused infinite damnation and led to corruption fo his other and Denmark.

“If thou hast nature in thee bear it not,

Let not the royal bed of Denmark be

A couch for luxury and damned incest”(I.5.81)

Hamlet also is under great depression and constant internal struggle. The civilization was also coming down around him. He had no one to trust. Hamlet is expected to go alone the remarriage of his mother, and also after finding out that his fathers’ murder was by his own uncle who married his mother and is now the new king of Denmark. What Hamlet knows now eaten away at his mind and makes him go crazy.

The major conflict of the play was within Hamlet. The world is crashing in around, but internally there is an even greater struggle for him to keep his sanity. He also debates which course of action and when, if he can forgive, and if his only peace would come from death. He feels he has lost all are to live for and are only left with wrath and sorrow.

Bibliography

Work Cited

Murray, Gilbert. “Hamlet.” Rpt in Shakespearean Criticism Vol. 1: Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Detroit:

Gale Research Company, 1984. 131.

Santayana, George. “Hamlet.” Rpt in Shakespearean Criticism Vol. 1: Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Detroit:

Gale Research Company, 1984. 128.