How Does Hamlet Cause His Father's Death

     When we first meet Hamlet, he is a sad, dark, loathsome figure; the loss of his father and the whoring of his mother have upset him indefinitely. Like a ticking time bomb, Hamlet’s noticeable temper reflects the storm of emotions and thoughts brewing in his head, and then like a catalyst, his meeting with the Ghost of King Hamlet brings his anger to a boil. With revenge in mind, Hamlet plans to fake his madness so that he may be free to pursue his father’s killer. Everyone, except his close friend Horatio, seems convinced that he is mad. Claudius however, fearful that someone will discover his evil deed, has also had his perceptions heightened by his guilt and he experiences chronic paranoia throughout the

First they think that Hamlet is lovesick over Polonius' daughter, Ophelia, but after the king spies on Hamlet and Ophelia in conversation, he comes to the conclusion that Hamlet is mad, a threat to his rule, and must be sent to England to be executed.  This is a sign of the king's uneasiness over the mettle of Hamlet's anger which is directed towards him.  The last thing that Claudius wants is for Hamlet to be unhappy with him, in fear that Hamlet will overthrow him, discover the murder, or possibly kill him.  The king becomes increasingly nervous as time passes, making him a bit paranoid over Hamlet.

Hamlet is resentful of himself as he considers both his mother’s incestuous relationship with Claudius and how Claudius murdered his father. He has simply allowed this all the happen without doing anything but wallow in his feelings. Hamlet begins his

v. 29-31). Hamlet’s words of hatred directed towards the new king alone describe the emotion he has begun to experience, in order to restore his family loyalty, and honor his father’s memory, but at the same time, he is unsure of the consequences of such a revenge. In the end, it is evident that the character, Hamlet, experiences many conflicting feelings and sights of death as a result of his choice to seek revenge on Claudius. As Rene Girard puts it in Hamlet, a book edited by Harold Bloom,

In the play Hamlet by Shakespeare, Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, son of King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude. He is also the nephew to Claudius. At the beginning of the play, King Hamlet has died. A few weeks after the death, Gertrude married Claudius. Hamlet encounters a ghost that appears to be his father. The ghost tells him that Claudius is responsible for his death and Hamlet sets out for revenge against Claudius. Throughout the play, Hamlet goes from normal to depressed. He acts out in a way that questions his mental state. You could argue that Hamlet was truly mad, however, Hamlet was not mad but instead he was normal.

Pursuing this further, Hamlet also felt anger throughout the play. Many things throughout the play caused for Hamlet to change from his sad stage into an anger stage. What made Hamlet transition into his anger stage was when he found out through his father’s ghost that King Claudius had killed his father by pouring poison into his ear. Hamlet was filled with anger and wanted to get revenge against his uncle. Hamlet also felt anger towards his mother for marrying King Claudius (the murderer). At one-point Hamlet felt that his mother wasn’t loyal and respectful towards his father. Hamlet said, “...even an animal would have mourned its mate longer than she did…even before the tears on her cheeks had dried, she remarried…” (1.2. 150-154). Hamlet felt like his mother didn’t mourn his father long enough and that she disrespected his honor be remarrying

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.

This all sets the stage for Hamlet’s mental state prior to learning that he was killed by somebody in his family. These themes of death and betrayal lead into the end of the first act when Hamlet is tasked by the ghost of his father to seek revenge against Claudius for what he did. Hamlet believes that he was “born to set it right” (1.5.190). The extremes of this line reveal that Hamlet believes that the whole reason for his existence is to avenge his father. This need for revenge drives Hamlet for the rest of the play. He wants justice for his father, but he also wants to punish Claudius for his murder and marrying his mother. He gives in to human nature when he starts striving to avenge his father’s death.

Shakespeare wrote the play so Hamlet would be very dynamic, so he shows an array of good and bad characteristics throughout the play. When he is first brought into the story in Act I- Scene 2, you see Hamlet being a nice, sensitive young prince who is grieving the death of his father, who was King. His dad’s death was a surprise to Hamlet and the whole city. He was asleep in his garden and a “snake” poisoned the King. As Hamlet learned later in the story "The serpent that did sting thy father 's life now wears his crown" (Shakespeare Act I Scene V), which meant that Claudius was the one that killed his father. After his father’s death his mother then immediately married his uncle. This made him even more upset. Mixed in with his obvious sorrow about his dad are feelings of anger because what his mother did. Shakespeare wanted to emphasize this emotion it leaves you feeling sympathetic for Hamlet. You can see from the very beginning that he is a very complex person, and this marks

“Hamlet” by Shakespeare is a tumultuous tragedy filled to the brim with wrath that is the motive for countless deaths within the story, planned or not. The sin of wrath is the most abundant and responsible for the number of deaths because it correlates with the feeling of betrayal, the need for revenge, and the unfortunate demise for all the characters in the way. In this play, Hamlet felt the ultimate betrayal after his father's death lead to the speedy marriage between his mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle, King Claudius which later aged into wrath. This betrayal is imminent during Act 1, Scene 2 when Hamlet says, “ O, most wicked speed, to post/ with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!/

Hamlet has been affected that most by not just losing his father but also his mind. After putting on the play Hamlet must go up to talk to his mother where he ask her “Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear /Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?” (Hamlet: III.iv.66-67), hamlet does not understand how his mother could be so blind and betray his father, the real king, for Claudius. Polonius king Claudius’s right hand man is the first person to be murdered in the play and from there one by one the whole court begging’s to rapidly decay. Followed by Ophelia who has been so depressed by this consistent seeking of revenge and personal gain that she chooses to take her own life. The court has been forever tainted and Laetres wanting “To cut his throat i’ th’ church” (Hamlet:IV.vii.144) shows how they have been blinded by revenge that they no longer fear God, as long as they can get what they

In the book hamlet, shakespeare illustrates the use of the seven deadly sins. Throughout the story the main characters begin committing sins. As you continue reading they become more frequent and the outcome is terrible. Anyone of the sins could’ve caused the outcomes in the end of the story. I conclude that wrath is the most evident and frequent sin, and was what caused the book to end in so much death.

He knew that his Uncle Claudius was guilty to the murder of his brother. While trying to get revenge for his father, he killed Polonius by stabbing him through the curtain. He thought Polonius was Claudius behind the curtain. After killing Polonius, Hamlet doesn’t react in the way a normal person would. Hamlet hides Polonius under the stairs. This act of madness leads to the death of Ophelia. Ophelia drowns herself from being stressed out and overwhelmed by the death of her father. The killing of Polonius makes Laertes want revenge on Hamlet for his father. Hamlet’s act of madness contributes to a lot of deaths throughout the

As he has started to become mad even if he is acting mad many people start to actually go mad. We see in Act 1 that Hamlet is depressed by how he is taken the death of his father so hard that he feels betrayed by his mother because she remarried so quickly. Hamlet is so upset that his mother has moved on so quickly and to not just any ordinary person to Hamlet's Uncle and new stepdad.Within act 2 we can see how Hamlet becomes more revenge oriented because he can now see that the ghost was telling the truth and that Claudius really did kill his father. With Claudius reaction to the play that was point of the play figure out if Claudius was guilty or not.( Spencer)Charles “The supporting performances range from the stolidly competent to the downright dreadful, political smoothness and gnawing guilt of Claudius” and that he has been having a lot of

Hamlets father was king married to Queen Gertrude but Hamlet had to return home to attend his funeral. He was a loving son; mourning, only to figure out his mother (the queen) had already married once more. The Queen’s new husband is King Claudius who is Hamlets uncle and the deceased King’s brother. This betrayal was like none other in Hamlet’s eyes. He knew right anyway from a feeling that Claudius was responsible for King Hamlet’s death. Hamlet even worried and sometimes assumed that his mother was part of the planning or even killing of his father. Returning home immediately became about getting revenge on the people that hurt his family and even in some cases that meant his mother. Hamlet was a smart man and very cunning but in the end it doesn’t work out for anyone.