Betrayal In Hamlet

In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Hamlet, a studious young man and Prince of Denmark, struggles to face the death of his father and the task to kill his father’s murderer, Claudius. He was once known as a charming, smart young man before his father’s death. However, Hamlet experiences depression and anger at the world, causing him to look outwardly on society but failing to look inwardly on himself. The death of his father and the task for vengeance leads him to question whether or not he should follow through in killing Claudius. He becomes a man of thought rather than a man of action. In addition, the delay of King Claudius’ murder leads the readers to believe that he wishes not to kill him; he

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” Presumably, family and friends should be people whom you can trust for anything. Right? However in the William Shakespeare 's tragedy, Hamlet, he exposes the few wicked relationships within different character 's transactions. This essay expresses how without support or a backbone in a relationship can be detriment to any self growth for the future. Shakespeare devotes his scripting to narrate the hideous ironic death of each main character from the act of betrayal. Some traits that Hamlet possesses which people inaccurately diagnosed him with insanity. Signs such as feeling conflicted, extreme sensitivity, feelings of isolation dominated by fear of failure,

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.

Betrayal is tough to deal with, especially when executed by a friend or family member. The idea of betrayal plays a significant role in the play Hamlet and is one of the major themes. Throughout this tragedy, Hamlet is betrayed by multiple people who he thought he could trust. One of the most significant acts of betrayal is that of Gertrude; her marriage to Claudius, only two months after losing her previous husband, Old King Hamlet, has a profound and significant effect on Hamlet.

In Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, the protagonist plots an elaborate plan of revenge to kill his stepfather which ultimately results in killing the whole royal family, and those closest to them. After King Hamlet’s untimely demise, Hamlet is throw into a chaotic whirlwind of emotion and drama. Once he is realizes that the new king possibly could have taken his father's life, he is faced with a dilemma: do nothing, or take revenge. He begins lashing out and making uncouth decisions while pushing everyone away. Anger slowly pushes him toward his breaking point and his thirst for revenge makes him think killing is the best justice.

By using Laertes’s swords, Claudius cuts himself from the censure from the queen who “lives almost by [Hamlet’s] looks” and, more crucially, the public who has “great love” and “affection” towards Hamlet that will “convert his gyves to graces” that the arrows “would have reverted to [Claudius’] bow” which is “not where [he] aimed them” (IV: 7: 12-25). Claudius commodifies Hamlet as a trap to make Laertes believe that Hamlet alone is to blame for his shame and

The word love is used many times throughout Hamlet. It is used to show respect to one one person to another. It was used to express feelings from one character to another. But, the word “love” adds emphasis to the theme of loyalty vs. betrayal in the play. Using the word “love” was to show your loyalty to one another.

Betrayal is defined as treachery or disloyalty. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare this is what ultimately led Hamlet and his loved ones to their deaths. From Claudius and Gertrude to Polonius, Ophelia, and Laertes. By the end of the play basically everyone except for Horatio has betrayed Hamlet in some way, even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

The worst feeling of ache everybody ought to sense is when you are betrayed through some who you thought loved you. A betrayal is an act of disloyalty and it is violating someone's trust. In the play Hamlet by using William Shakespeare, betrayal is a reoccurring action among many characters. This play indicates the target audience unique types of betrayal that is imaginable, from a husband betraying his wife, a boyfriend betraying his lady friend and a mother betraying the son and father. These moves of betrayal hurt the human beings that are most loved and break them the place it most hurts in the end. Betrayal is one of the strongest and most essential themes in Hamlet. The whole play revolves around the homicide of King Hamlet. Betrayal

(IV.iv.38-40, 42-45) Hamlet considered himself a naïve man or a complete coward for not carrying out his father’s wishes of killing Claudius before. He decision on becoming violent against his uncle slowly brought himself out from the depth of no self-esteem and up into the realms of determination. His final sign of self-deprecation shows the audience not only Hamlet’s raging emotions against his uncle but his change of morals and ethics as he decides to kill Claudius whenever the opportunity presents itself. The desperate craving for revenge while trying to follow the morals and ethics of his religion causes Hamlet to tumble down to his great demise.

Claudius then devises a plan to kill Hamlet by having him engage in a duel with Laertes who would be armed with a poison tip sword and a poisoned drink for Hamlet. Claudius believes that he can make Hamlet appear the villain when in reality he is the trigger for all of this chaos to start with. Laertes and Hamlet duel and find themselves to both be poisoned. After Laertes infoms Hamlet that the king is to blame for both the poisoned sword and drink, Hamlet decides to make Claudius drink the rest. Before he does Claudius pleads “O, yet defend me, friends: I am but hurt” (Shakespeare 5.2. 317).

To trust and love someone fully and have them hurt you can seem like one of the greatest pains in the world. To be so close to someone who willfully breaks your bond leaves a fierce bitter and angering empty space that eats you from the inside out. “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, prays on these feelings, otherwise known as betrayal, and structures it as one of his many themes in his sadistic, but all too true play.

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Claudius betrayed his nephew, Hamlet. Claudius married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, one month after the passing of his brother, the King of Denmark. Purposely, Claudius murdered his brother to gain control of Denmark. Claudius and Hamlet’s relationship started out similar to Polonius and Ophelia’s, but Claudius ruined the relationship after he betrayed Hamlet.

The story of Hamlet by William Shakespeare revolves around murder, revenge, and love. Yet, the stories protagonist as well as main character holds an odd secret to him that the audience tends to overlook. Being that the good guy in the story isn’t really all that good. The character battles through the death of his father, and how to deal with the unavoidable reality that his uncle was the one whom turned his life upside down, but how much are we as an audience willing to overlook simply based off a unfortunate past.

Although Laertes mentions the use of poison in this instance, he is not using it in a cowardly way. He is not being a coward because, although he is using poison, his target, is knowingly going into a fight to the death. Unlike Claudius, Laertes has the courage to face his opponent and kill him. Even though Laertes has a plan which includes Claudius’s choice method or murder, poison, Claudius follows up with a backup plan. Claudius says that when Hamlet, “calls for a drink, I’ll have preferred him / A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping / If he by chance escape your venomed stuck. / Our purpose may hold there” (IV.vii.157-160). In other words, if Hamlet avoids the “venomed stuck” of Laertes sword, Claudius will give him a poisoned cup that will ensure their “plan my hold there.” Claudius’s use of poison here shows his cowardice in direct comparison to Laertes’s courage. They are both given an opportunity to kill Hamlet with poison; Claudius chooses a method where he does not have to attack Hamlet with force, but since Laertes is not a coward, he chooses a method of killing which requires direct force. Much like Laertes, Hamlet courageously uses poison to kill. After the Queen has mistakenly taken a sip from the poison cup, Hamlet becomes furious and exclaims, “The point envenomed too? Then venom do thy work!” (V.ii.306). He then proceeds to stab Claudius, who then