Revenge And Betrayal In Hamlet

It is natural human instinct for a son to feel offended over the death of his father.  So is the instance of the two young princes, both spurned by the sudden death of King Hamlet toward destinies of avenging fallen fathers, which emerge to permit comparisons in Shakespeare's great tragedy Hamlet.  In the first act of the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, both are fatherless heirs whose uncles occupy the throne of their respected countries.  Both princes seek revenge for the events relating to the death of their fathers while their uncles and kings oppose their nephews, plotting to accomplish their own objectives.  However, by what is learned in the brief sidelined accounts of

Hamlet is acting crazy,so that King claudius will lower his guard. An example of this would be, during the story Bernardo and Francisco , are told to swear an oath to keep appearence of the king hamlet's ghost,a secret. Hamlet comes up with a plan to make

Prince Hamlet is not insane. Though at times his actions make one question whether or not that statement is true, Hamlet is only trying to cope with the harsh reality of his father’s ghost appearing to him, asking for him to seek revenge on his behalf. With so much being asked of Hamlet it’s reasonable why he feels and expresses himself the way he does. Everyone copes with harsh situations differently and its human nature to respond exactly how Hamlet has, by finding the miniscule amount of hope within a tragedy. If Hamlet was truly insane his friends and family members would have detected this way before any family incident had occurred not after his date of death. Although everyone in this play is truly convinced of this, he is simply pretending in order to successfully revenge his father’s death and execute his elaborate plans.

But being clever hamlet,comes up with a scheme of revenge. Hamlet was not crazy he only acted crazy to certain characters in the story. Hamlet is not crazy and here is proof why. Hamlet is just acting crazy to make king Claudius drop his guard. During the story Bernardo and Francisco are told to swear an oath on Hamlets sword, to keep the appearance of king Hamlet's ghost a secret.

Embark on a journey of revenge, indeed Hamlet did. However, he did not count the number of graves he would need. He began his quest for vengeance in such an enraged manner that he forgot everything about what he held dear. The grieving character was lost in his sadness and the author gives a hint of what Hamlet was feeling in act 1 scene 2 when he is talking to his mother and says, "But I've got more real grief inside me that you could ever see on the surface. These black clothes are only a hint of it." When people grieve they try to make sense of what happened, why did that person have to die? why wasn't I there to see him for the last time? All of these answerless questions were haunting Hamlet and then suddenly a ghost appears and sheds some light on the why's, and so it begins; a quest to satisfy the hunger of revenge and to try to understand death.

Revenge is a clear and frequent motif in Hamlet. Multiple characters, including the ghost, Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes all desire revenge, and they all share similarities, most notably avenging murder. Additionally, Hamlet gets revenge on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for their betrayal. Although revenge drives much of the play, the final few pages of the play contain all of the actual action, while the majority of the play deals with the plotting, decisions, and inner struggles of revenge.

m the very first act, Hamlet is introduced to us in a extremely fragile state. A state in which we as humans are quite empathetic to as he has just lost a very important figure head in his life, his father. Throughout his mourning the audience see’s Hamlet’s vengeful and melancholy side come out as he considers both suicide and vengeance. Hamlet induces thoughts of death through his words, “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt.. Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d..His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!.” (I.ii.lines 332-336). He elucidates through soliloquy that he wishes he could die, how could he cease to exist in this heinous world were his mother and uncle could turn the mourning of his

"Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift. As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge." says Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. (Act 1, scene 5) He states that he will “sweep” his revenge, but fails to do so throughout the entirety of the first five acts of the play. One may ask why exactly Hamlet is seeking revenge, that is a good question. Hamlet's father was murdered, and after the very quick marriage of his mother and uncle, he believes that they had something to do with his father's death. This affects Hamlet's mental state throughout the play and causes him to continually plot against his uncle. Three solutions I feel as if would help Hamlet get revenge are of the following: Hamlet

Bitter sweet is the everlasting, piercing taste that cannot be shaken when one’s only motive in life is revenge. In the play Hamlet it becomes Hamlets goal to seek revenge for his father’s death after he finds out his uncle Claudius killed him. Due to his revengeful mind he makes a mistake in killing Polonius the father of the women he loved, and she Ophelia, due to her father’s death, becomes infected with the madness which leads to her taking her own life. Is it up to us to seek revenge or up to fate? I believe that you shouldn’t take revenge into your own hands but let fate decide.

Revenge in Hamlet The timeless play Hamlet by William Shakespeare explores the complexity of human nature, using, among other things, characters, symbolism and most notably the theme of revenge. The play begins with the death of King Hamlet having already passed. The King’s wife Gertrude has remarried the late king’s brother, Claudius. Her son, Hamlet mourns the death of his father all the while disgusted with what he calls an incestuous act. In the play, Hamlet and Laertes are faced with similar situations when their father’s are killed in cold blood, causing both to seek revenge.

When betrayed, one usually has negative emotions towards the people who have betrayed them. This idea is illustrated well in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, it is shown that betrayal affects the actions of Hamlet towards his friends and family, which indicates that the pursuit of vengeance often can cause one to forget the value of life. The betrayals that Hamlet suffered at the hands of his close friends and family, revealed important parts of Hamlet’s character, such as his intelligence, he is a very meticulous thinker that looks at situations from all angles, he is cunning, he has the ability to manipulate everyone into believing that he is insane, and he is skeptical, he does not believe any information until he

Shakespeare’s motive throughout the play Hamlet held many actions based on revenge. Revenge is what shaped the book because characters close relatives were murdered and it was up to the characters to give their dead loved ones justice. For example, Hamlet’s father was killed by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, and Laertes’ father, whom was the father of Hamlet’s love, was murdered by Hamlet accidently. Hamlet was after Claudius and Laertes was going after Hamlet. So it’s no surprise that this play ended in a tragedy. Now was revenge a worthy goal? No, no it was not because revenge leads to hatred between one another and causes a circle of revenge between characters.

Throughout the play Hamlet, the most profound theme is revenge and vengeance, leading into tragedy, several people want and seek revenge on each character, also known as an eye for an eye:not always ending beautifully. Hamlet, whom be the main character seeks murder on his uncle, who is King of Denmark after murdering Hamlet’s father. After, hearing about his father’s ghost, Hamlet goes into the woods and tries to speak to the ghost, “Speak; I am bound to hear”(1.5.3-4). Implying to his late father's death of a response. King Hamlet's Ghost replies that if he ever so loved him that Hamlet will “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”(1.5.25).

There are a few quotes in this play that can support my point of view. In Act III, Scene IV, Hamlet tells Gertrude, his mother “Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed; / Pinch wanton on your beck.. ravel all this matter out, / That I essentially am not in madness, / But mad in craft” Hamlet basically revealed that his madness was not honest. He expressed his disapproval for what his mother and Uncle have done. In Act III, Scene I, Claudius is talking about Hamlet, stating “actions although strange, do not appear to stem for madness.” Claudius was able to see through his act. In Act II, Scene II, Polonius admits that Hamlets actions and words have a “method” to them; that there seems to be reason behind everything he does, as if everything was a part of a plan. There were many people around him that did not believe he was indeed insane, but just strange. Hamlet almost gave it away when he said “How strange or odd, soe 'er I bear myself; - As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.”

“To be, or not to be; that is the question.” We have all heard this quote, but do we really think about where it comes from? It comes from Hamlet, the Shakespeare play all about revenge. In the beginning, Hamlet’s father dies, and Hamlet seeks vengeance to the mystery person who killed him. Throughout the play, we follow Hamlet, Claudius, (the new king), Gertrude, (Hamlet’s mother), and their friends and family as they journey through a tale of revenge and love. Hamlet is the main character, and he is the one initially seeking revenge on Claudius since he killed the former king. In the course of the play, Gertrude marries Claudius soon after older Hamlet dies. Shakespeare leaves details up for interpretation, but it seems obvious the Gertrude was aware that something had happened, and tried to help cover it up, along with Claudius.