Irrational Anger In Hamlet

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In the story Hamlet, there was very much unnecessary bloodshed because of his (Hamlet’s) irrational anger towards Claudius who killed his father to become king himself. The king came back as a ghost and commanded Hamlet to avenge his death by killing Claudius who conspired against him. Hamlet, out of both anger and defence, killed not only Claudius, but Polonius, which resulted in the death of Ophelia, Laserates, had a part in the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and even his own mother! I guess you could say he avenged his father… Sevenfold?! (wink)

If I was in the place of Hamlet, I feel that it could have gone two different ways:
In one instance, as soon as the ghost of my father appeared to me I think I would have killed Claudius

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