Fear In Hamlet

The tragic play of Hamlet is written by William Shakespeare. The play of Hamlet begins with the news of the passing of king Hamlet. The death raises many suspicions among Denmark. Claudius announces that king Hamlet death was due to being poisoned. Later on the play, the ghost of king Hamlet appears and talks to Hamlet. Hamlet learns that Claudius is the murderer of his father. The ghost orders Hamlet to get revenge on Claudius but with out harming Gertrude, Hamlets mother. Hamlet visits his mother and tell her about Claudius, and the ghost comes back and tells Hamlet to not harm his mother. Hamlet hears a noise and proceeds to stab the curtain killing Polonius, which he thought it was Claudius. Ophelia hears of her father’s death and turns

When Hamlet sees Claudius praying to God and asking for forgiveness for the murder of his brother, instead of killing him right away which he came close to, he says “Now might I do it, now he is a-praying, and now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven (3.3.72). Hamlet takes out his sword and thinks, if he kills him now while praying, Claudius will go to heaven. Hamlet does not count that as revenge, a villain who is the murderer of his father goes to heaven, that is doing him a favor. When King Hamlet dies, he dies whilst he was enjoying life. Hamlet’s decision not to kill Claudius while praying proves his sanity because he takes time to think about what will happen after Claudius dies and realizes that it would be doing him a favor so instead he lets him live, only to kill him later on and being that patient proves he is mentally stable and is using his brain, therefore he is

After Hamlet sees the ghost, he approaches Horatio and says “How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, as I perchance hereafter shall think meet-To put an antic disposition on” (1-5-178). Hamlet recognizes that in order for him to carry out a plan to kill king Claudius, he must put on an insane act. Hamlet says that he is going to act insane in order to keep others from knowing what he is planning. Only a sane person would do such thing, and he only puts his antic disposition in front of Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern because they are the people he is suspicious of the most. This shows true when Polonius says “Me knew me not at first: he said I was a fishmonger. He is far gone.” (2-2-187) In this quote, Polonius is speaking about Hamlet and his supposed insanity. This quotation is important because it shows that Polonius is not aware of the ‘antic disposition” Hamlet put on, which works in favor of