Hamlet's courageousness is shown through many aspects. After being given a mission of revenge by his late father's ghost young Hamlet not only accepts it, but also expands the mission to include purifying the whole court. He believes that his mission is not only to kill Claudius, but to kill corruption as well. Though he does not consciously announce his goal to root out the corruption in the court, it can be seen through his reactions after killing Polonius and manipulating the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. His reaction upon realizing that he had killed Polonius was not one of utter shock or one of regret; instead, Hamlet proclaims farewell to the "wretched, rash, intruding fool" (III.iv.33). Also, Hamlet tells Horatio that Ros

encrantz and Guildenstern "are not near [his] conscience" (V.ii.58), even after he has ordered the killing of the two. Even though Hamlet may sound cold and heartless, it is not so because in Hamlet's perspective, he was merely trying to rid the court of corrupted fools as it is part of his scheme of purifying the court. Hamlet's murder of these three characters reflect great courage because by doing so he had to overcome his religious belief that murder is a sin and live up to the challenge of purifying the court.

Another aspect of Hamlet that brands him the hero of this play is his nobility. Before his father's death, Hamlet is a very intelligent man, sophisticated and cultured. However, one of his flaws was his lack of maturity to deal with death. After his father's death, he has changed but he is still noble in essence. He is noble enough to give Claudius the benefit of the doubt, even after the ghost has revealed the truth to him. This is shown through the fact that he is willing to wait a few months until he can "catch the conscience of the king" (II.ii.559) through the use of the mousetrap scene. Unlike Fortinbras, who would risk thousands of lives "even for an eggshell" (IV.iv.53), Hamlet, for something as big as revenge for his father's death, must be totally certain that Claudius is the true killer until he can act. His nobility also will not allow him to embarrass anybody in public. In private, he will speak his mind fully, as shown when he yells such atrocities as "get thee to a nunnery" (III.i.133) to Ophelia in the nunnery scene. Another example of Hamlet speaking his mind in private is when he accuses the queen of living "in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty" (III.iv.94) in the bedroom scene. However, in the second scene of the first act, Hamlet promises his mother that he will stay in Denmark. He makes this promise in front of the court.

It is seen through the examples of Hamlet's courage and nobility that he is obviously the hero of the p

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