Examples Of Father Son Relationship In Hamlet

Hamlet's oedipal desires for his mother, Gertrude, emerge following his father's death. However, contrary to the natural course of the Oedipus Complex, where Hamlet would replace his father, Gertrude marries another man; namely, his Uncle Claudius. In this respect, Claudius now not only represents Hamlet's object of vengeance, but represents Hamlet, himself. The familial image of his father's own brother being intimate with his mother reflects Hamlet's own incestuous desires as well; this can be seen as the root of Hamlet's inner conflict. By killing his Uncle, he would be subconsciously killing himself as well. For this reason, Hamlet has extreme difficulty carrying out the murder of his uncle. Throughout the play Hamlet searches for excuses to procrastinate the deed of killing his father's murderer. His use of cowardice, doubt of his uncle's guilt and even the

Polonius had an evil plot. Polonius always spies on others to gain secret and private information. Polonius and Claudius together, work against Hamlet, and try to verify his sanity. Polonius performs as if he would do anything that Claudius asks of him, or anything that satisfies Claudius. Polonius willingly uses his daughter to assist Claudius in their plot against Hamlet. He even plans to ruin his son Laertes’ reputation and drive him from Denmark. Despite Polonius’ death, his unethical ways are still evident through Claudius’s actions. Claudius requests that Laertes fight with Hamlet, and he tries to poison him.

     Hamlet's father, Old King Hamlet who he looked up to was recently killed, and his mother married his uncle within a month. He receives a visit from the ghost of his father which urges him to "revenge [Claudius'] foul and most unnatural murder" (I, v, 32) of Old Hamlet. It is only logical that under these circumstances, Hamlet would be under great duress, and it would not be abnormal for him to express grief. Fortnibra and Laertes also have to deal with the avenging their fathers' death.

As Gertrude speaks to Hamlet Polonius is behind the curtain spying on the conversation, so he can hear the truth for himself as well as, help Gertrude if anything got out of hand. Hamlet and gertrude start to converse, and Gertrude tests him to see if he would kill her. That’s when Polonius shouted from behind the curtain and startled Hamlet. Therefore, Hamlet stabbed his sword through the curtain which ended Polonius's life. This marks the start of all the tragedy in the play.

On William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, after the assassination of his father, Hamlet thinks he is living in a world full of corruption and deceit, where everything is falling apart and everyone is against him. An imminent, exaggerated, and passionate love for his mother is his main feature. Although others argue that Hamlet’s obsession to murder Claudius is strictly to claim revenge for his father’s death, it is Hamlet’s obsessive desire to possess his mother in an unhealthy and, perhaps incestuous, relationship. Hamlet also appears jealous of Claudius, his father-uncle, jealous of him for having Gertrude and for owning the crown. He lives a love-hate relationship with his mother. He is full of anger towards her, but at the same time he

To begin, the most important tragic flaw of Hamlet’s is his unwillingness to let go of his past, which in turn controls his fate. Hamlet’s father is killed by Claudius, his uncle, to marry his mother Gertrude, which drives Hamlet and his need to avenge his father’s death throughout the play. Hamlet is unable to let go of this desire which consumes his thoughts, which will not disappear until it is fulfilled. Hamlet returns to Denmark, prompted by the urge to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet continues to struggle with the death of his father when he

asks Reynaldo to defame his son. He is more obsessed with his image and fame than his son’s. Once Polonius was murdered, Laertes still wanted to avenge his fathers death, which shows this relationship was only one-sided.

Hamlet puts off avenging his father’s death because of his severe Oedipus complex. Hamlet did not kill Claudius until his mother had already died. This is a sign that Hamlet did not want to hurt his mother because of the sexual feelings he had for her. Hamlet felt that killing Claudius would hurt his mother too much, and he could not do that to her. Hamlet wants to save Gertrude form Claudius because of his feelings for her, his incestual feelings, not maternal ones. Subconsciously the queen knows the effect she has on her son. Gertrude tries to play off that fact that’s she knows about Hamlet’s feeling several times in the play. Gertrude is very fond of her son and wants to protect him however she can. This can be seen in the play, many times even up to when Gertrude is about to die. She tries to save Hamlet from drinking the poison himself. She also decided not to tell Claudius that Hamlet knows what Claudius has done.

Hamlet's rant to persuade her that Claudius is a bad man and the murderer of his father depicts his disrespect to his mother. For instance, he tells her, "You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you." (III.iv.20-21) He is threatening his own mother! Later, he addresses her as "thou wretched, rash, intruding fool" (III.iv.32) Even though Gertrude's lust for Claudius aggravates him, Hamlet fails to show even the most fundamental respect to his superior. The relationship is full of disloyalty and distrust from Gertrude's part. First, she appeases, "Be thou assured... I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me." (III.iv.201-203) It is assumed that she will listen to Hamlet and stay away from Claudius. However, in the next act, she displays her true loyalty to her husband, telling him that Hamlet is "in this brainish apprehension kills / The unseen good old man." (IV.I.12-13) This is partially contributed by her observations of her son talking to a ghost that she doesn't see. Polonius' death causes her to think Hamlet is dangerous, further driving the two apart. Her distrust to her son harms him by further solidifying Claudius' plan to execute him in England because the king sees him as a threat to the throne who is capable of killing. In the end, Hamlet and Gertrude's relationship take a bittersweet ending.

When Hamlet was acting without reason, he accidentally killed Polonius, Laertes’s father. Due to this, Laertes is seeking revenge on Hamlet. In his revenge, Laertes is not nearly as introspective but acts more deliberately. For example, when Claudius speaks with Laertes about killing Hamlet he says, “It warms the very sickness in my heart that I shall live and tell him to his teeth, “thus diddest thou” (Shakespeare 227). Laertes does not think twice, but instead says that it would give him joy to kill Hamlet. Additionally, he agrees with Claudius when he suggests to poison the sword that they will fight with at a duel. Laertes believes that Hamlet is the reason that both his sister and his father are dead and he decided that he was willing to do anything to make sure that Hamlet pays for it. Overall, both Hamlet and Laertes are seeking revenge, but Laertes acts with much more deliberation and has more will to succeed over

William Shakespeare is a one of the most successful writers, due to his creativity and complex plots. He is well known for focusing several of his his plays around the theme of revenge, but each of the works accomplishes this in a different ways. His most popular vengeful play would be Hamlet, which focuses more of the anticipation and the moral aspect of revenge, rather than the act itself. Hamlet was written around 1601 and set in Denmark during the late middle ages. This play is especially unique because Shakespeare uses parallelism and foil characters to develop the theme of revenge. Hamlet is the main character of the play, who is the son of the recently deceased King Hamlet,making him the Prince of

Claudius seduces Gertrude before he murders King Hamlet to be sure that she will marry him. From the way Gertrude was responding to him, Claudius knows that she will marry him. Claudius is sure his plan will work and murders King Hamlet and marries Gertrude to become the new King and Queen.

Gertrude and Claudius have been concerned about Hamlet’s condition. This leads Claudice to send in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on their son to find out what is troubling Hamlet.”The king does not ask them to spy on their friend; rather he requests them to “glean” whether anything “unknown afflicts him thus,/ That, open’d, lie within our remedy”(II,ii, 17-18). Claudice, in greeting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, tells them of Hamlet’s melancholic state. After Claudice is done with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius comes and tell Claudius and Gertrude that he has the answer for their son’s melancholic state. At this point in the play, Claudius, Gertrude and Polonius all believe that Hamlet has gone mad. Polonius says, “Your noble son is mad” (II,ii,92). They all believe that Ophelia is the cause of his sadness and finally into “the madness wherein now he raves” (II,ii,149). When Polonius sees Hamlet, he realizes that he is neither mad nor melancholic. After, talking with Polonius Hamlet seems to realize that Polonius has prevented Ophelia from seeing him. He tells Polonius, “if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog” (II,ii,180), he should keep his daughter out of the sun. Polonius thinks Hamlet is “far gone, but considers “How pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of” (II, ii, 206-209). This shows that Hamlet is in fact mad. When Polonius

Shakespeare juxtaposes the trust and respect implied in familial relationships with depictions of father figures repeatedly betraying the supposedly inherent trust between them and their sons to demonstrate the pervasiveness of dishonesty and the inherent evil of man. Newly crowned King Claudius claims he professes a “nobility of love” for his nephew Hamlet as a “father bears his son,” but is not faithful to his claim and sends spies after Hamlet (1.2.114,115).A typical, selfish human, he is willing to betray the trust implied in their relationship to stay in power, since Hamlet is the main challenger to the throne. The relationship between Hamlet and Claudius is one of mutual mistrust, since neither can trust the other to be acting in the other’s best interests. From Act I, Shakespeare reveals Claudius to be the murderer of his brother, a perpetrator of the greatest betrayal of trust. Usually, family members implicitly trust each other, but Shakespeare demonstrates that the opposite is the grim reality. Deception within the family is so pervasive that it trickles down to the king’s advisor, Polonius, who sends spies to follow his son, Laertes. Polonius instructs a servant to imply to those who might know Laertes in France that he is of dubious moral character, to not hesitate to use “a bait of falsehood” to besmirch his son’s reputation

The tragedy, “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare, who formulated a play about the young Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who faces the emotions, depression, anger, and uncertainty due to the murder of his father, King Hamlet. The man who conducted this unlawful action was Hamlet's uncle, step-father and the new King of Denmark, Claudius. Hamlet desires to seek revenge upon Claudius for his father's murder and the incestuous relationship between him (Claudius) and Gertrude (Hamlet's mother). In prince's first soliloquy, he contemplates on committing suicide because he faces difficulty in mourning of the death of his father whom he greatly adored. Moments later, he expressed his emotions on his mother's decision to marry her dead husband's brother, Claudius. This marriage is incest because, Gertrude, a widowed wife, marries her brother-in-law, Claudius whom is considered as "family" during the Elizabethan era. His emotions present itself in act one scene two where Hamlet goes through a state of depression because of his father's death, and then leads to anger because of the relationship between Gertrude and Claudius. Later on in the play, Hamlet reaches a point of anger that drives him towards the idea of seeking revenge. In brief, Shakespeare applies Hamlet's soliloquies to track his character development throughout the tragedy by utilizing various literary devices.