Hamlet Essay

“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” William Shakespeare (the author of Hamlet) said this. The book Hamlet is all about revenge, and wrongs doings. During this play characters go through faces and act out on their emotions. These emotions drive them to do the unthinkable, however, while seeking revenge their plans backfire. Hamlet is the main character of the play, and is the first person to act out in revenge. When he finds out about his father's assassination, he starts plotting against his uncle/stepfather, the king. People, including his lover, thought he was going insane because of the way he was acting. He could’ve killed him but he wanted to make it grand, however, he ended up killing Polonius his lover’s father. Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle/stepfather, he killed his own brother to become king, the married his brother’s wife, Hamlet’s mom (Gertrude). When everyone else thinks that Hamlet has gone mad, he suspects that there’s something else going on. He sends out a letter to assassinate Hamlet but he intercepts this letter and has someone else killed. When Gertrude tells Claudius that Hamlet had assassinated Polonius, he starts plotting against Hamlet with Laertes.

After the death of her father, Ophelia goes mad, and ends up committing suicide. This drives Laertes to hate Hamlet with all his might, and plans to poison Hamlet with the help of the King. Laertes challenges Hamlet to a dual, and they were planning to poison Laertes sword as well as Hamlet’s wine. The plan goes exactly the opposite they were expecting; Hamlet does get cut with the poisoned blade but his mom ends up drinking the poisoned wine. Laertes gets poisoned with the blade as well, and the king dies by Hamlets