Hamlet Essay

In the play of “Hamlet”, Hamlet was the son of a king, King Hamlet. King Hamlet was said to have died from a poison snake bite. After King Hamlets death Hamlets uncle, Claudius, had then married his mother, Gertude. Hamlet had been going through so much anger and depression with the situation of the death and the remarriage. He had been feeling even more cautious about his uncle. Hamlet had heard of his fathers ghost coming to the kingdom and Hamlet finally sees it for his own eyes. The ghost had told Hamlet how Claudius was the one who actually killed King Hamlet. Telling Hamlet to get revenge on Claudius but not his mother. From that day Hamlet had been plotting on how to get revenge on Claudius. Hamlet planned to act as if he’s become mad so he would not get any attention of him knowing about Claudius being a murderer.

One reason was because he wasn't sure if the ghost was actually the ghost of King Hamlet. Hamlet started thinking the ghost might've been a demon trying to make him have bad intentions against Claudius. For Hamlet to believe the ghost he had set up a play to see how Claudius would react. The play was a reenactment of King Hamlets death. When the play had began everyone had questions but when the scene of the Kings death begin, Claudius ordered to stop the play and stormed out dramatically. This gave Hamlet confirmation of Claudius guilt. After the play, Hamlet found Claudius praying, asking God to forgive his sins. Hamlet could have took his revenge at this moment but then he thought: If Claudius is asking for forgiveness for his sins then Claudius would go to heaven. Hamlet knew a revenge of killing a murderer and then sending them to heaven was not what his father wanted so he left. Giving up his chance of revenge left Hamlet with a big