Throughout literature, authors use various methods to intensify the tension in their writings. One method authors employ is the use themes to introduce the main point or concept of the story. In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the concept of revenge to resemblance and reflect the moral, social, spiritual, political, and personal dilemmas of the characters. The reoccurring theme of revenge, cause the characters in Hamlet to act aimlessly through emotion and anger, rather than through reason or a purpose. According to Ronald Broude, the author of Revenge and Revenge tragedy in Renaissance England, revenge is "the carrying out of a bitter desire to injure another for a wrong done to oneself or to those who seem a part of oneself." In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare follows the convention of typical ingredients that makes …show more content…
In The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince Hamlet comes face-to-face with moral, social, spiritual, political, and personal dilemmas. Starting with moral dilemmas, according to the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, moral dilemmas “the agent is required to do each of two or more actions; the agent can do each of the actions but cannot do both or all the actions.” Hamlet will seem condemned to moral failure no matter what he chooses to avenge his father’s death or not. Hamlet chooses to delay action because he is petrified that he will do something wrong or fail to avenge his father’s death. As a son, Hamlet “feels implied to answer to call honor”, but his melancholic qualities are holding from seeking revenge. He questions the aftermath of his revenge plot, whether he will be mentally stable or mentally unhinged. As a reader, I believe that Hamlet is fearful that his symptoms of depression, indecisiveness, excessive mourning, and sentimental outburst will continue or whether he will be free of