Forgiveness In Hamlet

Shakespeare writes in a way that is difficult to understand for anyone that speaks the modern language. His story Hamlet is understood through the emotions felt by his characters. Hamlet is the main character who is conflicted with revenge and conspiring friendships. Hamlet returns home from Germany for his father’s funeral only to find far more troubling things. Hamlet is a conflicted character but that doesn’t stop him from knowing what he wants. Revenge is the main cause of his confliction but with great reason, which is important to understand about this play because it helps explain all the betrayal and tragedy.

At times, we allow our better judgment to be clouded by the emotions we conceal deep within. These moments, usually occur after brutalization caused by something or someone, making the line between vendetta and righteousness, nearly non-existent .Like a wilted white rose dipped in blood, the anguish from our lacerations distorts and sullies the purity of the soul creating a desolate void of hatred. Justice and revenge is there a difference, is one more virtuous? We see this struggle between justice and revenge in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In, Hamlet, Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes were all wronged and take separate paths of retribution.

Revenge often corrupts the mind from thinking straight. All the characters in the play were impacted by other people’s vengeance. Due to this, many characters met their doom. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the theme of revenge is portrayed, by Hamlet’s decisions, the desires of other characters, and the fates that they met.

Hamlet is a play written by Shakespeare, portraying the life of a tragic hero Hamlet. Whom initially wanted the revenge for his father death, but dies after he pays revenge. Hamlet is a vengeful but pathetic character because his father was murdered and his mother was remarried to his uncle which is also the new King. All the sorrow and anger he has lead him on a path to revenge on old hamlet’s death violently. I feel sympathy for him as he is persuaded to pay revenge and he dies because of Claudius’s gimmick. Hamlet does not deserve the death of all his loved ones.

An enduring theme within Hamlet is the concept of revenge, but elaborating on that idea is how they use revenge as a method of justice. Similarly, within modern society, there are multiple justice system that focuses on this idea of vindictive justice. In contrast, there are justice systems that focus on the idea of reform as opposed to punishment. As a result, vindictive justice systems are created to make the victims feel "satisfied," where as reform justice systems focus on creating long-term solutions. Thus, an underlying message within Hamlet is that vindictive justice does not create actual solutions, as every characters demand for retribution only perpetuates the violence and wrong doings within the play.

The play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare is about a guy named Hamlet going through a hard time in life, after the death of his father, and the remarriage of his mother to his uncle. Throughout the play were are able to get a greater understanding of who Hamlet really is. The actions of Hamlet in Shakespeare's master piece “Hamlet” proves him to a revenge seeker, emotional, and crazy.

Justifying the act of revenge is often a difficult thing to do. It is commonly said that two wrongs don’t make a right and committing an act of revenge is very rarely going to end up being a morally good decision. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we see many different characters attempting to get revenge and the effects revenge has on them. Further evidence of character’s change due to revenge can be found in Goddard’s contemporary criticism of Hamlet. Finally, in the episode Act V of This American Life, inmates in prison provide a relatable perspective of Shakespeare’s characters and help contextualize their motivations with real experiences. Among the stories of revenge present in the play, Hamlet’s task to kill Claudius causes the most drastic change in his character. We see Hamlet grapple with false madness and his own morals as his life collapses around him. As Hamlet struggles to complete his goal his ideals shift and he is finally able to enact his revenge and kill Claudius. The desire for revenge and the actions towards carrying out that revenge can completely change an individual’s character.

Hamlet is a tale of despair and murder. Throughout the play, Shakespeare weaves a web of death, love, and betrayal that intrigued people of the time period and is still read widely today. The tale tells of the death of a king, and it follows his son Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, takes the throne and marries his dead brother's wife only a month after his death. Soon after the ghost of the old king appears to young Hamlet and tells him he was murdered by none other than his brother Claudius, the new king. Hamlet then tries to prove Claudius' guilt and begins to slip slowly into madness. The key points in the plot of Hamlet are the meeting with the ghost, proving Claudius' guilt, and the ironic and untimely deaths of different characters. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare draws a picture very complex and intriguing using imagery and diction.

The play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, surrounds the central idea of revenge and betrayal. Revenge drives the characters and determines their actions throughout the play, which results in several instances of betrayal. With revenge, the friendship and loyalty of characters are tested and conflicts are established between characters. Hamlet’s father, the king of Denmark, was helplessly poisoned by his own brother, Claudius. Hamlet, the protagonist, becomes aware of his father’s death and finds himself seeking revenge and starting a cycle of hatred. Hamlet embarks on his journey for revenge by displaying an act of craziness. Throughout the play, there were several moments where Hamlet’s actions caused confusion and made it difficult for

Hamlet was cognizant of the fact that she was spying on him for her father as well for Claudius, and exacted revenge on all three of them: the king and her father (the king’s confidant) for ordering her to spy on him, and on Ophelia, for betraying his trust, and siding with the false king. This circumstance contributes a great deal to the story, as does it reinforce the theme of revenge in the story.

The story of Hamlet is one written many decades ago, telling a story of a boy in the French court who endures several traumatic experiences throughout his life. Hamlet, the rightful heir to the French throne, is stripped of his destiny when his father falls, when his mother quickly remarries a member of the royal family. Claudius, the new king, creates numerous problems for Hamlet throughout the play. Hamlet suffers from what seems to be insanity, but his actions are all just an allusion in his plot for revenge. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet, being overwhelmed by the grief of his father’s sudden death, the shock of his mother’s inexplicable marriage, and being surrounded by treachery, plays a role with intentions that are misunderstood

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most famous work of tragedy. Throughout the play the title character, Hamlet, tends to seek revenge for his father’s death. Shakespeare achieved his work in Hamlet through his brilliant depiction of the hero’s struggle with two opposing forces that hunt Hamlet throughout the play: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father’s murder. When Hamlet sets his mind to revenge his fathers’ death, he is faced with many challenges that delay him from committing murder to his uncle Claudius, who killed Hamlets’ father, the former king. During this delay, he harms others with his actions by acting irrationally, threatening Gertrude, his mother, and by killing Polonius which led into the madness and death of Ophelia.

In today's society, the media often portrays revenge as an acceptable option. This is not outright stated, but rather implied. Characters often seem to think that revenge is the only way to get closure from a bad experience, and when this is acted on, negative consequences are not shown. Rarely is the fact that vengeance is hypocritical and wrong brought up. People need to wake up and realize that revenge is always hypocritical and illogical. As Christ said, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7)

Revenge is a recurring theme in Hamlet. Although Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s death, he is afraid of what would result from this. In the play Hamlet, Hamlet’s unwillingness to revenge appears throughout the text; Shakespeare exhibits this through Hamlet’s realization that revenge is not the right option, Hamlet‘s realization that revenge is the same as the crime which was already committed, and his understanding that to revenge is to become a “beast” and to not revenge is as well (Kastan 1).

The literary classic Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been a timeless piece of literature for hundreds of years. The story of Hamlet focuses on the son of the former King of Denmark, Hamlet, and his quest for revenge against his father’s murderer, Claudius, who is also Hamlet’s uncle and the brother of deceased King Hamlet. Hamlet devises a plan to prove Claudius’s guilt and the plan is successful. However, Claudius and his accomplice Laertes, who is the brother of Hamlet’s deceased girlfriend Ophelia, devise a plan to kill Hamlet. However, the plan backfires and results in the deaths of Claudius, Hamlet, and Laertes. Hamlet is a classic piece of Renaissance Era literature and is one of the world’s most recognizable stories in all of literature.