Hamlet 4

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One of the themes I found in the play Hamlet, was the way Hamlet seemed to hold back on getting revenge for his father's murder once he know who did it. After his father's death and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet started to spiral into a suicidal frame of mind. It is in this state that he meets the mysterious figure of his father's ghost where he is told that it was his uncle, Claudius responsible for his death. Hamlet pledges to revenge his murder by Claudius who, the ghost also informs Hamlet, had already committed adultery with his queen during his lifetime. "Although Hamlet accepts the ghost's word while he is with him, seeds of doubt about the ghost's authenticity have been sown from the very beginn


Becker J. George "Shakespeare's Histories". New York: Frederick Ungar

Heilman B. Robert "Shakespeare: The Tradagedies". New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc

Although Hamlet dies at the end, he was able to avenge his father's death. Because Laertes confessed that the king was to blame for hamlets mothers death as well as for the poison on the sword, Hamlet was able to achieve his revenge in terms that exonerated his soul from danger. If Hamlet didn't hold back on getting revenge for his father's murder, I think his mother would have still been alive and Hamlet would have became king; instead they all died because of procrastination.

"Hamlet decides to test Claudius' guilt and the authenticity of the ghost; he will stage a performance of a pl

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