Is Hamlet Good Or Evil

Hamlet’s madness is questioned by many readers. The truth is that Hamlet portrayed madness before he came up with the plan of acting madness. This madness is an important characteristic in the play with Hamlet’s actions revolving primarily around the idea he has because of his madness. There are several occasions further in the play when the audience sees Hamlet acting mad even though there is no one else in the room that he was aware of. In act three, scene four, when Hamlet is in his mother’s chamber and hears a noise behind the arras the rash decision to stab the noise behind the curtain shows exactly how erratic and unstable Hamlet is. His rash behaviour to kill without seeing what he is doing shows that his madness is real and not something he is faking to have revenge for his father. In act five scene two, Hamlet announces that he has switched the letter that ordered Hamlet to be killed in England; instead writing that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be killed. This is perhaps because he thought they were the ones who ordered his death when in fact they were just following Claudius’ instructions. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were Hamlet’s friends which show that he was perhaps paranoid in his madness. They were there to help yet his rash character after seeing the Ghost has yet again ended people’s lives. It is important to consider that in the Elizabethan era madness was defined differently than what the

The player's speech was meant to strike emotion into a cowardly Hamlet, or the play would be going in circles because up to this point, Hamlet does not know what to do about what the ghost has told him.  It also suggests an idea to Hamlet to see if the actors can muster up emotion or guilt in the king during The Players' reenactment of King Hamlet's death.  Since his confrontation with the ghost, Hamlet has been fickle on his decision and of the ghost's credibility, but now he knows how to reveal the guilt within King Claudius and takes action due to The Players.

In the play by William Shakespeare, the ghost of King Hamlet approaches his mourning and depressed son, Hamlet, who is still affected by his death. The ghost explains to Hamlet how he died and demands that Hamlet avenge his death. Note how the ghost approaches Hamlet when he’s the weakest and still mourning to persuade and manipulate him into taking revenge for him. In Act one Scene 5 the ghost states, “If thou didst ever thy dear father love-/ Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” The way King Hamlet words his request is more as a challenge; in which Hamlet’s love for his dead father can only be proven by carrying out whatever his father wishes. The ghost influences most Hamlet’s behavior, which not only affects the plot, but also the relationships with other characters. The ghost influences the relationship between Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude. He becomes angry at Gertrude because of her fast marriage with his uncle Claudius. Through the use of innuendos, antic disposition, and metamorphic plays, Hamlet makes it his duty to get King Claudius back for killing his father. Hamlet agreed to avenge his father without second thought. As the play advances, Hamlet begins to doubt the apparition. In act 3 Hamlet begins to have second thoughts and states, “The spirit that I have seen/ May be a devil…” This shows Hamlet’s inner conflict between listening to his father and avenging his death or following his ethics. To be sure that Claudius

The beginning of the play sets the stage for everything to unfold. Hamlet is weak in the mind due to his father’s unnatural death. In Act 1, Hamlet speaks to the Ghost and learns how his father died. Without Hamlet interaction with the Ghost, he would not have created a desire for revenging his father’s death. Now knowing that Claudius killed his father in order to take his place as king, it only makes sense that Hamlet desires the truth to be revealed as to what happened to his father.

Why Does Hamlet delay so long in achieving his revenge- what is really stopping him? There is an inner battle inside Hamlet that no one knows about, good versus evil, stuck between both worlds. Hamlet is the only one who can decided which world to want to be apart of. Hamlet, the story, reveals that the individual can only find meaning by looking inward and living according to his or her own beliefs and including values. Being and thinking independently is the key to purpose and inner peace. Unfortunately most human beings fail to find this inner peace because of the need conform to the group and act according to the desire of others. Why does is

The ghost already has an idea in his own mind about his revenge when he says, "But howsomever thou pursues this act, / taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / against thy mother aught" (1.5.91-93). Hamlet hides his desire for revenge by saying, "There's never a villain Dwelling in all Denmark but he's an arrant knave" (1.5.137-138). When Hamlet finds out that his friends had heard the whole conversation between the ghost and himself, he makes them swear not to say a thing, and intentionally pretends to be crazy. Hamlet's madness also allows him to avoid truth in his pursuit of revenge. Although Hamlet overtly wants to know the truth, his behavior is quite contradicting. By avoiding a confrontation with Claudius and accusing him directly of wrongdoing, Hamlet also avoids the possibility of truly knowing what happened.                                              

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet relays Hamlet’s quest to avenge the murder of his father, the king of Denmark. The late King Hamlet was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who took the throne and Hamlet’s mother Gertrude for himself. Hamlet is beseeched by the ghost of his father to take vengeance upon Claudius; while he swears to do so, the prince inexplicably delays killing Claudius for months on end. Hamlet’s feeble attempt to first confirm his uncle’s guilt with a play that recounts the murder and his botched excuses for not killing Claudius when the opportunity arises serve as testimony to Hamlet’s true self. Hamlet is riddled with doubt towards the validity of the ghost and his own ability to carry out the act necessary to

Throughout Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, Hamlet’s emotions, actions, and thoughts cause much trouble during the play. Hamlet encounters stages of sarcasm, inanity, suicidal tendencies/self-deprecation, and procreation/indecision which develop not only his personality but the play itself. Hamlet uses sarcasm to express his emotions, pretends to be insane (ultimately leading him to become truly insane), self-deprecates throughout the play due to family events, and procrastinates because he is indecisive. Hamlet encounters many life-altering events throughout the play such as his uncle poisoning his father and quickly remarrying Hamlet’s mother, to accidentally killing Polonius thinking it was Claudius, all the way to debating upon: his own

Where Claudius is being set up by hamlet. In act one we see that hamlet met with his father ghost, who told him that he was murdered by his brother and that he should take revenge. Hamlet not knowing if the ghost a is an evil spirit or telling the truth. He decides to trap Claudius by coming with a play that explains exactly how his father was murdered to see the reaction out of the killer, hamlet succeeded.

This ghost calls for Hamlet to take “action” by avenging his father’s death by plotting against Claudius. . Although Hamlet does not know if this new information is true, this causes him to display unpredictable behavior, indicating he has become enraged with the passion to avenge his father's death. Throughout the beginning of the play, Hamlet considers the idea that the ghost is really the devil and is trying to send him to hell. This only drives Hamlet further into madness, as his call to action is impedid, but he becomes confused on his approach to the matter. One prime example of the extent at which Hamlet goes, is when he comes very close to killing Claudius.

The purpose of the ghost in the play is to avenge his own death. The Ghost was Hamlet father and he was trying to get Hamlet to kill Claudius who was the Cause of his death.” I am thy fathers spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night and for the day confined to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt

In The Morality of Hamlet—`Sweet Prince' or `Arrant Knave'?, Patrick Cruttwell addresses whether Hamlet is good or evil. He states that the answer to this questions depends on which set of morals people judge his actions under. Either they judge him based on Christian morals or Pagan morals. In addition, he states that this play, like so many other pieces of literature, has grown into a myth. He also states that is a paramount to answer to what degree Hamlet he was actually mad and his true motives for avenging his father before making a judgment about his morality. Additionally, he brings up that most actors now play he with at least some degree of instability, while actors in the eighteenth century actually chose to depict him as feigning

On the contrary, there are also characters in the play, “Hamlet” by Shakespeare that shows how reason led to disaster. Specifically, when King Claudius realizes that Hamlet is a threat to his status of being king, he begins to use his brain to construct a well thought out plan for eliminating Hamlet. King Claudius’ strategy is described after he brilliantly sedates Laertes’ anger from discovering about his father’s death. Laertes’ discovery led him to march through the castle to direct his sword at King Claudius. “Bring you in fine together/And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,/Most generous and free from all contriving,/Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,/Or with a little shuffling, you may choose/A sword unbated, and in a

Moreover; Hamlet has doubts about his father’s “ghost” true intentions. He often wonders if the ghost has evil intent towards him and he is ashamed he might be being used by the entity. “The ghost I saw may be the devil and the devil has the power to assume a pleasing disguise, and so he may be taking advantage of my weakness and sadness to bring about my damnation” (II.II.565-569). For this reason Hamlet sets out to do a play to prove both his uncle reaction and the ghost’s effectively delaying once more his uncle’s assassination.

Throughout act two and act three, Hamlet finally comes up with a plan for his revenge, but it does not go as planned. The main reason to even perform this play was to confirm that what the ghost had said was true. Also, he hopes that Claudius will react in a way that would prove he is guilty. Hamlet makes sure the play is performed correctly, telling the players: