Moral Values In Hamlet

Hamlet is often referenced as the only Shakespearean play written by a genius, about a genius (VHSfx). It is set in Elsinore, Denmark in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and focuses on a teenager who had just returned home from school in Wittenberg Germany for his father’s funeral. When he arrives, he is appalled to see his mother married to his uncle. To make matters worse, his uncle, named Claudius, was crowned king despite the fact that it was Hamlet’s inheritance. Hamlet knows that something is not right in the state of Denmark and, one night, is greeted by a ghost claiming to be his father’s spirit. He tells Hamlet that his soul cannot rest easy because he was murdered in the midst of his sinful life. He did not have time to confess

At the beginning of the play, all the characters are consumed with the values of this world. Claudius killed his brother because he wanted to gain the throne, queen, power, and wealth. King Hamlet tells Hamlet to kill him in order not to get equal and what was coming to him in this world, but also to make them equal in death. There are two soliloquies in the play where the readers see Hamlet realize the equality in death. After killing Polonius, Claudius wants to know where the body is, but Hamlet simply told him that he is at dinner; he is giving dinner to worms. He then goes on to say that a worm could eat a king and then be fed to a fish as bait and then eaten by a beggar (Babra 134,135). He is showing how everyone is equal. Later in the play, Hamlet has a lament with the gravediggers on how Alexander the Great could be used to patch a hole in a beer barrel because his body turns to dirt (175,176). This theme is evident today because everyone dies just as they did in during the middle ages. Many people are focused on the wealth of this world and fail to act upon the fact that their money will not follow them in death. Society should focus more on things that will last in this world longer than the fragile body. Throughout the play, Hamlet comes to terms with death and realizes that it is a part of life. He no longer fears the day he will take his last breath but takes comfort in the fact that everyone is equal in death. The themes seen in Hamlet are evident in the world today; specifically the themes of corruption in politics and equality in death. Claudius and other characters in Hamlet had several deeds carried out in the play Hamlet that exemplified political livelihood. Throughout the performance, the audience witnesses the revelation of Hamlet realizing that all are equal in death. This play is timeless and includes themes that will always be relevant in the