Throughout the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the pursuit of revenge leads to a tragedy and the fall of many. With his judgement clouded with anger, Hamlet made many wrong decisions that led to the downfall of his family and his plan to seek revenge for his father’s death. With the lack or reason used in his plan, due to his anger, led to the deaths of many of the characters. Revenge is one of the themes of this play and revenge is the reason why this is classified as a tragedy and the reason why everyone is dead. Due to the patriarchs of each family passing away, all of their children wanted to extract revenge on those they believed killed their fathers. Hamlet’s main goal was to kill his uncle, who was now his father due to his marriage to his mother. He saw a ghost who told him that his uncle killed his father. …show more content…
Will he be the ruthless killer, and kill those who have wronged him or will he be passive and accept it? With the passing of his father, Hamlet feels it is necessary to extract revenge, he feels that he is bound to revenge and is attached to his father in many ways. Being the only son, he feels it is necessary to avenge his father’s death and kill the man who married his mother. Luc 2 Due to his impulse and madness, Hamlet kills an innocent man, Polonius, whom he believed to be Claudius spying on him. With this first death, Hamlet starts to show his true colors. To his mother he says, “Leave wringing of your hands. Peace. Sit you down And let me wring your heart. For so I shall If it be made of penetrable stuff, If damnèd custom have not brassed it