Escapism In Brideshead Revisit

Whilst an audience would feel Hamlet must follow his visceral feelings and exact a bloody revenge, there is also the moral issue that both a viewer and Hamlet must wrestle with in order to make a decision over whether the death of a murdering, ‘incestuous’ Uncle is necessary. From the time the audience hears of his intentions they feel sympathetic towards his cause even though he is to commit a chilling crime. This is best explained by Francis Bacon, the writer of ‘Of Revenge’ who states that ‘revenge is a kind of wilde justice’ and:

‘The most tolerable sort of revenge, is for those wrongs, which there is no law to remedy’

There are surely no greater wrongs than killing a brother and a King in one fell swoop, but there are other motives for this revenge, primarily honor. It is the ghost of Hamlet’s father whom fuels revenge in the early stages of the play, he urges Hamlet to abandon all ‘nature’, a euphemism for morality, and kill Claudius in order to release the spirit from ‘purgatory’ in a similar manner to Claudius the ghost asks Hamlet to turn his love into actions:

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