Why Does Hamlet Get Revenge Analysis

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Hamlet tries to get revenge on Claudis for killing his father. Claudis dies in result of Hamlet getting revenge. Laertes and Claudis try to get revenge on Hamlet but, that doesn't go as they planned. Since they tried to get revenge on Hamlet caused Gertrude and Laertes to die. Revenge can lead to your own demise; yet, revenge can also turn out as you planned, in the case of Hamlet. In Act 1, Hamlet's father's ghost encounters and tells him that he was murdered. Hamlet's response was, "Haste me to know't that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep my revenge." Since he found out his father was murdered, he wanted to seek revenge on his Uncle Claudis for killing his father. His words that he said after his father …show more content…

" How now a rat? Dead for a duca, dead. He kills Polonius by thrusting a rapier through the arras.", how Hamlet killed Laertes father, Polonius. "How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with. To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation. To this point I stand, that both the worlds I give to the neglience, let come what comes, only I'll be revenged most throughly for my father.", is what Laertes tells King Claudis when he says he is gonna seek revenge on Hamlet. "It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain. No med'cine in the world can do thee good. In thee there is not half an hour's life. The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, unbated and envenomed. The foul pratice hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie, never to rise again. Thy mother's poisened. I can no move. The king, the king's to blame." Laertes tells Hamlet that after he striked him with the poisened sword right before he dies. Claudis tries to get revenge on Hamlet. " Let's further think of this, weigh that convenience both of time means may fit us to our shape. If this shoulf fail, and that our drift look through our bad performance, ' Twere better not assayed.' Therefore this project should have a back or second that might hold if this did blast in proof. Soft, let me see. We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings- I ha't! When in your motion you are hot and dry (as make your

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