I sit here in the These cold and withered walls hide so many tragic deaths, Claudius’s simple yet gruesome plan for greed and power intertwined with Hamlet’s quest for revenge has ultimately unraveled a story of horror in which has left a wake of dead bodies. Instead my best friend, my dear brother Hamlet, has had his life cut short. Oh, how I miss him. Oh how, I wish I could be with sweet Hamlet, wherever he may be now. The cruel fate that was served upon innocent Hamlet, the death of the unheeding Gertrude, the way in which young Ophelia took her own life and the passing of the naive Laertes have one sole person to blame, the evil and manipulative false king, Claudius. To even say his name leaves a distasteful foulness in my mouth. He …show more content…
This act of betrayal ensured that Claudius would gain the throne and take control of Denmark. The death of Hamlet’s father took a massive toll on him, but it wasn’t until Claudius hastily married Gertrude that Hamlet got pushed ever closer to the edge. The death of Hamlet’s father followed by in his eyes the betrayal of his mother and then to be told by his dead father to avenge him. This was to much for him to bear, it put him on a path of revenge and sent him hurdling into the depths of madness in which there was no …show more content…
It was to happen during in what was supposed to be a friendly fencing match. If I had simply forced Hamlet to refuse the fencing match, perhaps the death of him and his mother may have been avoided, He may not have been cut with the poison blade and he may still be alive now. Hamlet was however unpredictable, he had gone mad, I was the sole source of rationalism in his life, I should have done more. I could see that Hamlet however deep down did have suspicions about the fencing match, it’s like he knew that death was imminent but he proceeded with it anyway, he said this to me, “Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be