As the saying goes "revenge is sweet," but is it really sweet, is it as easy as one, two, three, or are there consequences and problems that come with it? How do we know when to take revenge against somebody, and when is it justified not only to others but also to ourselves. The play, Hamlet, written by Williams Shakespeare, deals with the difficulties and burdens that revenge carries. Hamlet, the character is confronted with a situation in which he must take revenge against his father's murderer. Hamlet procrastinates the actual act of revenge that's where the mystery of the play stems up. There are endless explanations as to why he waits so long to take revenge against his father's murderer.

At the beginning of the play, Hamlet is haunted by his father's ghost, who tells him what had happened and how he had died. The ghost tells Hamlet, "The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown" (act I, sec.5). But it just happens to be that the "serpent" that the ghost is talking about is the brother of Hamlet's father. From that moment Hamlet realizes that the person that killed his father is his uncle, who is now married to his mother and is the new King of Denmark. The ghos

d set himself free from the craziness that he has experienced since his fathers death, and haunting. In order for Hamlet to make the Ghost stop haunting him he will have to kill the King.

t gives Hamlet some specific instructions as to what he should do about the news that he had received from him, "Revenge my foul and most unnatural murder" (act I, sec.5). The ghost basically instructs Hamlet to get revenge against his uncle for what he had done to his father. This is where the mystery of the play stems up because throughout the course of the play, Hamlet has many opportunities to take revenge against his uncle and yet he sort of passes them by until the very end.

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Another opportunity that Hamlet passes to get revenge is when the King is praying all by himself, which could have been the perfect timing for Hamlet. "Now might I do it pat, now he is a praying, And not I'll do 't. And so he goes to heaven, And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this it villain sent To heaven: (act iii, sec. 3) Hamlet passes his opportunity for revenge because he sees the King praying and asking for forgiveness. If he were to kill him at that moment the King would go to heaven for killing his father, but Hamlet doesn't want him to go to heaven for committing the act that he had.

The ghost of Hamlets father keeps haunting him, and reminding him to what he needs to do. While Hamlet is confronting his mother about the King after she has seen the play that he had set up, the ghost of his father comes back once again to remind him of what he needs to do. "Don't forget. This visitation Is but to whet thy alm

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