The term revenge is prevalent in the play Hamlet multiple times. My definition of revenge is the desire to get back at someone for something they have done to that person.
This term is throughout the whole play. One of the first times that the concept is mentioned is when Hamlet finds out about his father being killed. This is happens when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father wondering around. These few lines from the play demonstrate how the concept of revenge is used in this scene that I have explained:
Ghost “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”
Hamlet “Murder”
Ghost “Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, unnatural”
Hamlet “Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As Meditation or the thoughts
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Laertes says “I am satisfied in nature, whose motive in this case should stir me most to my revenge; but in my terms of honour I stand aloof” (273).
This shows that Laertes still wants to get revenge on Hamlet for killing Polonius. Since this has happened, the play goes into a lot of turmoil. The play goes into turmoil because Hamlet is trying to get revenge for his father's death while Laertes is trying to get revenge on Hamlet for the killing of Polonius. The concept of revenge is prevalent in this play, but the concept could also be applied to my life as well. For example, one time that I have had the concept of revenge in my life would be my sophomore year during football season. During this year our numbers on the Varsity team were down so there was a lot of us sophomores playing Varsity. Every Friday night we would play and get destroyed by the other team. After that, we would have Saturday morning practices just for the Junior Varsity (JV). We would be so mad because we lost the previous night and we hated losing. Then when it came Monday and we played the JV team from the same school we played on Friday, and we were out for revenge. We played wanting to beat them to show them that just because their Varsity beat our Varsity doesn't mean that it is going to be an easy game for them. We played that way all season. We ended