Hamlet Analytical Essay

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“Hamlet” is a carefully structured story. As a revenge story, it has three clues that shows the reader there is bloody revenge mood enveloped in the whole book. Hamlet goes for revenge for his father who was killed from his uncle; Laertes takes revenge for his father who was killed by Hamlet; Fortinbras gets revenge for his father that died in the fight at the war. From these three clues, the Hamlet’s revenge is the main one and other two revenges helps the story to become more interesting. Also, all those revenges reference the theme- hate and greedy. In beginning of the story, Hamlet is unhappy that his mother is marrying his uncle, and he doesn’t believe his father died due to the snake. He think the “snake” is his uncle, until the Ghost of hamlets father told him the truth, proving him to be right. Since then Hamlet wanted revenge for his father and Hamlet says that he will forget everything he learned before, but will not forget to seek revenge. During Hamlet’s revenge, Claudius is more powerful than Hamlet, making it difficult for hamlet to seek revenge, putting himself in danger. He starts acting like he is crazy to help him get the other character’s attention away from his action. Once he gets a chance, he creates a drama show that shows …show more content…

He is angry about his father’s death, which later leads to him leading his army into a revolution, but the king uses the skills he has in speaking to change Laertes’s mind so he can stop the revolution. This makes him want to kill Hamlet. Because of the adversity between Laertes and Hamlet, they have a duel. During the duel, Claudius and Laertes want to use poison to kill Hamlet. However, in the end Laertes feels that he should not kill Hamlet, but unfortunately, he and Hamlet both get stabbed by the poison sword. The queen also drank the poison drink and Hamlet find out what was happening, so he used last of his power to use the poison sword and kill