Revenge In Hamlet Research Paper

Within the Shakespeare play, Hamlet, the protagonist struggles with the death of his father, as well as, the new marriage of his mother. Throughout the play, Hamlet explains to the audience about his plans of revenge. However, the audience begins to wonder if he will in fact go through with his thoughts. Hamlet quickly believes that the queen, his mother, married the man who murdered his father, the old king. In thinking so, the situation inspires Hamlet to brainstorm and get revenge.

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.

Hamlet, and J Alfred Prufrock take us down the paths of revenge and recollection. Hamlet is driven by the want to revenge his fathers murder. Early on In the story Hamlet learns of the way in which his father is killed and this brings out a rage in him. This shows readers how much Hamlet really loved his father and how willing he is to get his revenge. Hamlet is willing to go crazy so that his actions wouldn’t be suspicious to his mother, Claudius, or Polonius. It was proved to work considering Claudius covered Hamlet’s murder of Polonius. Hamlet was willing to go as far as killing his two “best friends” so that he could kill Claudius. One example of Hamlets love for his father was how he said, “By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!—A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle”(1.2.145-152). Hamlet argues that his mother shouldn’t have been able to move on as fast as she did. He emphasizes one month, the time it took for his mom to move on and the fact that she married his fathers brother is what makes him even sicker. Hamlets affection for his father is what drives his pursuit of revenge. While Prufrock doesn’t show much love towards a certain individual, similarly,

In his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare frequently utilizes the word “revenge” and images associated with this word in order to illustrate the idea that the pursuit of revenge has caused the downfall of many people. He builds up the idea that revenge causes people to act recklessly through anger rather than reason. In Hamlet, Fortinbras, Laertes and Hamlet all seek to avenge the deaths of their fathers. Hamlet and Laertes manage to avenge their father’s deaths and in doing so, both rely more on their emotions rather than their reasoning, which eventually leads to their downfalls at the end of Hamlet.

The author uses revenge as a critical theme presented in his work. The Prince’s intense passion to avenge his father’s brutal death is what sets the mood. Can we even suggest his focus on revenge was abnormal? Even in this era, we are addicted to the belief and faith put in revenge. Often you hear characters say “revenge is sweet” amongst gangsters in popular movies and novels. These characters are often on quests and desire for revenge. For example, in Game of Thrones, Arya Stark (youngest daughter to the Stark family) kills Walder Frey (the man who slaughtered her family), as she dresses in disguise as a maiden to serve him dinner, she then holds a dagger to his neck and exclaims “the last thing you are going to see, is a Stark smiling down before you as you die” (season 6: episode 10- aired June 26, 2016), as she slits his throat and leaves him there to eventually bleed out. When Hamlet sees his Fathers ghost, he immediately announces that he had been killed by his corrupted brother Claudius. The spirit then explains to Hamlet how he has to avenge him “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (Ham:1, 5, 8-31). Hamlet then swears that indeed death is the answer to this foul, bloody murder, “Haste me know’t, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge” (1,5,28-31). Knowing the son of King Hamlet is often questioning himself, the revenge obviously does not get started immediately. He has many opportunities to kill the evil King of Denmark and avenge his beloved father, but often wastes those chances (such as when the alcohol addicted king is praying and confessing his sin to executing the former king, Hamlet has a chance to stab him in the back, but his over thinking mindset stops him). When he does finally kill Claudius, he does so instantaneously, without any thought. It is by chance that the future King of Denmark finally succeeds in his vengeance, which might otherwise have stayed not avenged. The hero is a portrayal

In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses revenge as a major theme present throughout the work. Revenge plays a crucial role in the development of Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Laertes, son of Polonius. All three men seek revenge for the murder of their fathers. Revenge can be interpreted as a separate character in Hamlet. Revenge is set to overcome anyone who seeks it. Initially, after each of the murders, every son had a definite course of action to obtain vengeance. Or in Hamlet's case the choice was to seek no vengeance. As the play unfolds, each young man approaches the desire for revenge and chooses a different path towards gaining it based on the guidance of another character in

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

Towards the beigning of the play Hamlet encounters the ghost of his father whom was perviously killed by his uncle during his father sleep before he could repent for his sins. The ghost of his father goes on to revel what Hamlet had suspected that was the doing of his uncle since the day of his crowning.The spirit exsplains exscatly how the events took place and requests that his son(Hamlet) be the one to avenge his restless soul. "Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder"-1.5.31. After the reveling and revelutionary visitation, Hamlet is somewhat shocked and becomes filled with anger and a thirsty heart for revenge. "How strange or odd som'er I bear myself (As i perhance here after shall think meet. To put an anti desposition."-1.5.140.142

Firstly, Hamlet is a royal prince of the Danish court. Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius. The ghost of King Hamlet says that when he was napping in his orchard, Claudius, his brother, poured a "leperous distillment," or a poison, into his ear. The poison curdled his blood and caused his skin to develop horrible sores. When Hamlet learns from the ghost of his father’s murder, he weeps, and promises action, though he delivers none. Hamlet grieves deeply for his father, Hamlet carefully plots his revenge and waits for the perfect moment to avenge King Hamlet. Claudius’s murder of king Hamlet initiates Hamlet’s quest for revenge. Hamlet expresses his feelings while in dialogue with the ghost: “Haste, haste me to know it that with wings as swift/ As meditation, or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge” (Shakespeare 1.5.29-31).The significance of this quote explains about Hamlet saying to the Ghost of his father that he wants to know about his murder so that he may seek revenge faster than a person falls in love because it is the first time Hamlet talks the revenge for the murder that he seeks for most of the play.

Some people seek revenge because they want to forget about what happened to them. Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare, is about the the tragic events that happened between king family. Hamlet, is the first son of the dead king Hamlet, who found later in a story that his mother married his uncle. Hamlet’s soliloquies throughout the play illustrates that Hamlet is depressed and interrogate, and this contributes to the meaning of the play as whole because of the things he was facing throughout the play was over his head/mind which made him go crazy and which resulted in death of innocent people.

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.

Revenge. Revenge causes one to act blindly through anger, rather than through reason. It is based on the principle of an eye for an eye, but this principle is not always an intelligent theory to live by. Young Fortinbras, Laertes, and Hamlet were all looking to avenge the deaths of their fathers. They all acted on emotion, and this led to the downfall of two, and the rise to power of one. Since the Heads of the three major families were each murdered, the eldest sons of these families swore vengeance, and two of the three sons died while exacting their acts of vengeance. Revenge is a major theme in the Tragedy of Hamlet.

To respond to any given situation, characters within this tragedy use the actions of others as a means of justifying their own. This is an indirect example of revenge. An instance of this would be Hamlet’s mother responding to King Hamlet’s death by going on to immediately marry the King’s brother. While her actions may not have been in spite, her response is still reactive and destructive of the personal lives of those around her, specifically Hamlet, who quickly develops a loathing and distrust for women, due to his mother’s unfaithful ways. Hamlet is not a performance piece that singularly focuses upon the horrendous consequences, caused by the seeking of revenge.

Revenge has been the downfall of many throughout the course of time and fiction. Revenge is a powerful emotion that can drive even the strongest individuals mad, forcing them to act with their emotion as opposed to their rations and morals. Hamlet is a play in which one of the main themes throughout is the pursuit of revenge. Upon realizing what his Uncle Claudius has done Hamlet goes on an endless quest for vengeance at his father’s ghost’s request that serves as the catalyst for most of the madness and despair that occurs throughout the play. For this reason, Hamlet’s central theme is the pursuit of revenge as every major event in the play occurs as a result of Hamlet’s quest.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the son of a recently murdered father, who was King Hamlet, is hell-bent on avenging him by killing the man who poisoned his father and wed his mother by hiding his revenge plot by using his depressed manor and his apparent insanity. Hamlet’s plot of revenge depending on depression and his apparent insanity that is portrayed throughout the play using imagery, irony, symbols, structure of the play, setting, characters, and character relationships.