In the story “Hamlet “by William Shakespeare, is about an unhappy prince, by the of name hamlet whose uncle King Claudius has kill his father and marries his mother and took the dominate role as the king of Denmark. Hamlet was in school in Germany when he found out about his father death. He came back to Denmark to attend the funeral but later found out his mother Gertrude is also getting married to his uncle Claudius. Hamlet doesn’t agree with anything that’s happening right now. Later that night Hamlet father spirit has arrived to the castle. The only person the ghost has spoken to was hamlet and he doesn’t have to opportunity to rest in peace because of the way he got murder. The ghost tells Hamlet that …show more content…
The actions he made was selfish and very unthoughtful. He is selfish because he is more concern about what’s happening with him other than his surroundings. Hamlet is more on the thought of getting revenge on Claudius. In the play he said (Hamlet: "I'll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks. I'll tent him to the quick. If he does blench, I know my course.... I’ll have grounds more relative than this. The plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.") (Act 2 lines 623-638). Based on this line, you can clearly see that hamlet will do anything he can to get Claudius kill. Hamlet is so stress out on the fact that Claudius is not dead, he doesn’t make the right choices in the play. Hamlet has taken it upon himself to get together a play that hasn’t been thought out. He doesn’t acknowledge what the other character would say nor he cares that this play was out for everyone to see and someone would’ve catch on to it. Other readers have also see that he is selfish man because they said “Hamlet thinks that everyone should grieve for his father as long as he does. It had been at least a month and there was a party going on and he thought it was wrong” (St Rosemary Educational). Based off the readings, Hamlet is consider a selfish man. he doesn’t really acknowledge or cares about …show more content…
He uses his brain in a really odd way, He doesn’t think about anyone else but himself, he acts before he thinks and for that I end up seeing him as a jerk. Hamlet is a man with little courage or none at all. Throughout the play he causes a lot of problems and caused a lot of deaths, every entire death that happen in the play was some way led to him. Hamlet is so focus on killing Claudius that he doesn’t even notice that all the close people around him are dying off. He didn’t even care that he caused his childhood friends death or being the cause of Ophelia madness. In some way, I am very convinced that hamlet did not get revenge because he ends up dying his own self and losing everyone around him. He just doesn’t have a heart for anyone. But what I can say is Hamlet is really loyal and trust worthy to his father and that is really effecting him because he has become really depressed that his father cannot sleep in
Hamlet is extremely proud of Old King and respects him.“He was a great human being. He was perfect in everything. I’ll never see the likes of him again” (I.ii.185-188). Hamlet loves his father and gives the greatest praise at the funeral. Grief driven by love tempts Hamlet to think his father’s goodness, and more, the loss of such a favorable figure. Hamlet believes that the ghost that is said to look like the dead king is indeed his father.”He waxes desperate with imagination”(I.ii.92). The Prince, who is deep in sadness and does not think sufficiently, is convinced that the spirit is the Old Hamlet, he is the only person that can physically communicate with the ghost. Hamlet for the second time talks to the apparition in his mother’s chamber, where Gertrude does not see any. What Horatio and other witnesses encounter at the gate at night proves the possibility of the existence of the ghost, Hamlet later in the play is considered to be truly mad on the account of his unusual ability to see and talk to the spirit, which is obviously conjured up by his mind. Rising actions in both the book and the play are implied at the beginning of the stories: Amir’s memory of 1975 and Old Hamlet’s death. The journey of redemption or revenge takes actions of concealing their true emotions and implementing devised
King Hamlet loved his son like any father does. Hamlet looked up to his father like all children do and his life was greatly changed when he learned of his fathers death. After hearing the news of his father’s death, Hamlet felt as if a part of his life was ripped away from him, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. During an encounter with his father’s ghost, King Hamlet, Hamlet learns that his father was murdered. It was not the news that his father was murdered that shocked Hamlet into reality, it was the fact that the one who murdered him, was in fact his own loving brother, Claudius. After killing his own brother, Claudius believes that he can go on with life like nothing has happened. Hamlet does not understand how someone can murder somebody, who is not only the King, but their own brother, and go on with life like he did nothing wrong.
Ultimately, Hamlet does decide to kill Claudius. He does so for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, his mother; in drinking Claudius' drink and poisoning herself, she becomes conscious of Claudius' treachery and implies withdrawal of all support of Claudius. This eliminates the threat of motherly estrangement, virtually paving the way for Hamlet to kill Claudius. Also, however, Laertes informs Hamlet of his knowledge of Claudius' treachery in the very end, as well as his distaste for Claudius, thus removing the threat of friend estrangement. In addition, Claudius' treachery is itself immoral, justifying Hamlet to kill him on principle and since Hamlet was mortally wounded, he had nothing to lose.
In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet the king of Denmark is murdered by his brother, Claudius, and as a ghost tells his son, Hamlet the prince of Denmark, to avenge him by killing his brother. The price Hamlet does agree to his late father’s wishes, and undertakes the responsibility of killing his uncle, Claudius. However even after swearing to his late father, and former king that he would avenge him; Hamlet for the bulk of the play takes almost no action against Claudius. Prince Hamlet in nature is a man of thought throughout the entirety of the play; even while playing mad that is obvious, and although this does seem to keep him alive, it is that same trait that also keeps him from fulfilling his father’s wish for vengeance
One of Hamlet’s flaws is that he over thinks things a lot and it is first shown the most at the prayer scene with Claudius. Once Hamlet sees how Claudius reacts to the play he knows that Claudius killed his father and that the ghost was right, he has a chance to kill him and doesn’t take it . His only proof was the ghost and even though others saw the ghost no one else heard it talk except Hamlet. Hamlet was also considering a lot of other things at this time, like how if he killed Claudius now Claudius would be free of sin and would go to heaven. He was also thinking if his father didn’t get to die free of sin it wouldn’t be fair for Claudius to die free of sin either, which shows how vengeful Hamlet’s character is. At the same time, Hamlet has morals and understands the consequences so that’s why it’s harder for him to perform the act . After a l...
Hamlet is still in mourning of his father’s death but feels that most of the people have moved on much quickly with the death of his father. And after a couple months his mother is remarried and a twist of turned events to find out that it is his uncle, Claudius which is his new step Father. Filled with anger he does not know how to digest this news. To top it off is visit buy the Ghost of Hamlet (hamlets father) to tell Prince Hamlet that his uncle Claudius is the murderer. And demand that he takes revenge upon him and kill Claudius. “To be or not to be,’ (3.1.56) true to himself or carry on bloody traditions of his war like father. But being visited by his father’s warlike spirit triggered him to be lunatic and he is lunatic because he was compared to the moon shining with the bloody borrow sheen of his warlike father (2.2.52). However, before he had even spoken to the Ghost of Hamlet he had been warned by Haratio...
Why does hamlet delay so much in avenging his father’s murderer? Is there a part of him that really doesn’t want to take revenge? These are questions readers may come up with after reading and analyzing the play. Hamlet is a play built on a long tragedy between many characters. This tragedy starts with the main character Princess Hamlet and his Uncle Claudius. Claudius is the antagonist in this play and starts all of the drama. Claudius is the reason why hamlet is trying to seek revenge. Other characters are trying to seek revenge throughout the entirety of the play also. Shakespeare in the play Hamlet, is trying to make this a play on revenge between many characters and also show the insecurities of Hamlet as he tries to seek revenge.
Throughout the play he makes most of his decision based on his end goal and that was to kill his uncle claudius, because he was the one who put his father in the grave and then took Hamlet’s Mom from him and turned her against him. Hamlet kills a family member out of revenge because of something that had happened previously to him and based only on his
Hamlet: The Ghost A very important topic in Hamlet is the ghost of his father, the king had got killed by Claudius which was the kings brother. Claudius killed the king by pouring poison into his ear, this made his blood and caused his skin to develop horrible sores. " Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. " The king says, when the ghost first appears he tells Hamlet he wants revenge for his Murder.
Hamlet only kills Claudius when he has also murdered the queen, Laertes, and has also poisoned himself. It takes a threat of death to do what his own dead father orders him to do. A largely held opinion is that he is to emotional to do it, but it is when his emotions all come together that he murders Polonius. Another opinion is that he to full of morals to kill, but how then can he alter a note and literally sentence two old friends who were just following orders too death. It is also believed that he is too cowardly to go through with it, but if a man is bold enough to face a ghost, confront a queen and kill an eavesdropper, than what should stop him from avenging his father and ridding Denmark of the disease that infests it's royal line. The answer is simple, he is to smart to get around to doing it.
Hamlet was told by the ghost of king hamlet to get back at Claudius for his death, or his soul will travel on earth forever. Even before hamlet knew about Claudius killing his father he had problems. It made hamlet mad that his mother would marry so fast and with his uncle. What Claudius did was an outrageous, back stabbing, and unbelievable thing. It was clearly an act of jealousy for his brother's throne and the wife. Claudius did pay back for his actions. Claudius lost his wife, his messenger, and died and even after his death kept loosing because he lost his castle to Fortinbras.
But since he was elected, there was not much he could do. King Claudius was not a noble man. He just won his votes from parliament. This is portrayed in scene two of act five, when Hamlet says “He that hath killed my king and whored my mother, popped in between th’ election and my hopes, thrown out his angle for my proper life.” King Claudius has all the opposite qualities of moral. He states how he did all of the wrong just for his own personal gain in scene three of act one when he says “Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.” He was selfish, and that is not what nobility of the mind is
Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most famous work of tragedy. Throughout the play the title character, Hamlet, tends to seek revenge for his father’s death. Shakespeare achieved his work in Hamlet through his brilliant depiction of the hero’s struggle with two opposing forces that hunt Hamlet throughout the play: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father’s murder. When Hamlet sets his mind to revenge his fathers’ death, he is faced with many challenges that delay him from committing murder to his uncle Claudius, who killed Hamlets’ father, the former king. During this delay, he harms others with his actions by acting irrationally, threatening Gertrude, his mother, and by killing Polonius which led into the madness and death of Ophelia. Hamlet ends up deceiving everyone around him, and also himself, by putting on a mask of insanity. In spite of the fact that Hamlet attempts to act morally in order to kill his uncle, he delays his revenge of his fathers’ death, harming others by his irritating actions. Despite Hamlets’ decisive character, he comes to a point where he realizes his tragic limits.
He pretty much forgot he was a prince and forgot about all his duties, and forgot about the people in his life. “For Hamlet, revenge was coupled with justice, but the situation of father/uncle, mother/uncle, uncle King confused him…” says a commenter. Hamlet was so worried about killing Claudius and revealing him to everyone he forgot about everything else in his life. During the whole play Hamlet thinks about how he wants to kill Claudius, and reveal him to everyone, that he began to slowly go a little crazy without even noticing. Even though he was acting crazy for the plan he had to reveal Claudius, He seemed to actually be going crazy with revenge. He is obviously a philosopher, meaning he likes to think a lot, but him thinking caused him to go a little crazy. He was so busy thinking of revenge and planning revenge that it sort of drove him mad, and made him lose a lot of the people he
With his thinking mind Hamlet does not become a typical vengeful character. Unlike most erratic behavior of individuals seeking revenge out of rage, Hamlet considers the consequences of his actions. What would the people think of their prince if he were to murder the king? What kind of effect would it have on his beloved mother? Hamlet considers questions of this type which in effect hasten his descision. After all, once his mother is dead and her feelings out of the picture , Hamlet is quick and aggressive in forcing poison into Claudius' mouth. Once Hamlet is certain that Claudius is the killer it is only after he himself is and and his empire falling that he can finally act.