Theme Of Truth In Hamlet

“To be or not to be: that is the question…” (Hamlet, p. 63) a question young Hamlet asked not merely of himself but that of the audience. Hamlet’s world has been tossed into chaos, mourning the loss of his father while coping with the thoughtlessness nature of his mother. Hamlet, in an attempt, struggles with the redemption of putting right what once went wrong all the while wrestling to discover the moral truths to sustain a just society. King Hamlet, Hamlet’s father, prior to his death was a faithful and honorable man, however, not without transgression. Shortly after his death, he sought out young Hamlet, as he was doomed to walk the earth, “Till the foul crimes (his sins) … are burnt and purged away.” (Hamlet, p. 28) For that very reason,

Thereupon, led himself right into the hands of Laertes, Polonius’ son, and King Claudius’ own plot of treachery. Upon the case of the last stone when all lay dead or dying does the truth reveal itself, where Laertes appealed to Hamlet asking for forgiveness in return for his own. “Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee. Nor thine on me!” To which Hamlet replies, “Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.” (Hamlet, p. 142) In the end, both sought redemption to make once what was wrong right

(Hamlet: A world without Love) During Ophelia’s funeral, simply too late, Hamlet realizes this need, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?” (Hamlet, p. 128) Without love, the world fell into chaos upon which no one was able to escape. This chaos then caused, Hamlet, to have sought revenge of his father’s death, the queen to marry her dead husband’s brother, Ophelia driven mad upon the loss of her own father, Laertes to conspire to kill, and Claudius took for himself the crown when he killed his own