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Hamlet Gang Related Shootings

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“In 2010 and 2011 gang homicides accounted for roughly 8,900 of 11,100 of the deaths in the U.S.” This dangerous outbreak of gang-related shootings is depicted within articles like, “I See Everything Through This Tragedy”, and have infected the grounds in which this amazing country was originally founded upon. Another article titled “Hatred”, also talks about how this driving hate, utilized within these shootings, seems to overcome any obstacle to plague the mentalities of others, causing them to commit these crimes. My whole life I have heard it said that, “Violence is never the answer”, but someone has to put hate-filled criminals like the ones mentioned within “Blocking” in their place for real change to occur. “Blocking the Transmission …show more content…

This hunger for revenge encapsulates Hamlet in a casket of anger and hatred for Claudius who struck Hamlet’s father down in cold blood soon after Hamlet converses with the ghost of his father, the late King Hamlet. Through this dialogue, Hamlet learns that Claudius played a key role in the slaying of King Hamlet and had kept it from the view of the public. After this revelation occurs, Hamlet then commits to dispersing all life from the body of Claudius, quickly following the newly discovered, heinous actions of the suspected tyrant. However, Hamlet’s anger and fury clouded his judgement and heavily influenced the monumental decisions that he made during the poem to be, less than adequate as a whole. The story of Hamlet signifies the theme of revenge in a manner that defines how it can corrupt and destroy a person both, emotionally and physically. This is thoroughly expressed in the poem during the scene where Hamlet stabs Pollonius, who had been eavesdropping on conversation between Hamlet and his Mother.The rage and confusion that overencumbered Hamlet had caused him to accidentally murder Pollonius. This is shown in the story when this dialogue is exchanged, “How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!”. “(stabs his sword through the arras and kills POLONIUS)” “(from behind the arras) Oh, I am slain.” In …show more content…

The impact that this type of hatred holds on society is explained in detail through all of the consistent tragedy that seems to be negatively impacting the relationships that we have with one another. The story of “Hamlet” also refers to a similar sense of hatred, like the one portrayed in “Blocking”, that is held by the character Hamlet, In how he primarily seeks to go against the tyrannical beings that conspired to murder his father in cold blood, To acquire a certain sense of closure for the death of his father. Revenge, Greed and Hatred are the primary influences behind the darkness that is corrupting the world in every way imaginable. These poisons are slowly chipping away at the mold that has held us together, through thick and thin, for hundreds of

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“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” (Shakespeare pg. 23) The foreshadowing in the beginning of the book provides Hamlet’s future intent to get revenge on Claudius. This goes to show how Hamlet couldn’t refuse revenge because he ended up killing his fathers murder. It’s built inside all

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Hamlet, also, could not get over the death of his father. He found out when his father’s ghost came back that his brother, and Hamlet’s uncle, murdered him. He then was willing to do anything possible to get revenge on Claudius, his uncle. Both of

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The violence in the city of Chicago nearly doubled in a year and most of the gang-related murders involved guns. After the murder rate skyrocketed in 2016, the local government realized that the strict gun laws in Chicago aren’t making a

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Furthermore, the audience or readers are encouraged to feel sympathy for Hamlet during his mourning period for his father and his anger towards the matrimony of Claudius and his mother. He vows to disregard his morality and seek revenge due to the burden of his new found knowledge. Through the use of the dramatic irony in this scene, the character development, structure of the theme, and the manipulation of the audience’s sympathies have all been

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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or take arms against a sea of trouble” (3.1.64-67). He

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Hamlet’s character is complex and often tormented by his own emotions. Hamlet dealt with challenging circumstances that made him hesitant, indecisive, and occasionally manipulative. Hamlet had the desire to get revenge on Claudius to serve justice for the murder of his father, King Hamlet. However, his desire fulfill the honor that he is destined to have. Carrying out revenge may be considered unethical and immoral, but Hamlet had the desire to get revenge to be honorable and serve justice for the murder of King Hamlet.

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His appreciation for his father also exemplifies his commitment to take revenge on Claudius and to avenge King Hamlet. As the father figure, King Hamlet sets the example of dominance and control that Hamlet has been poised to achieve., giving the added pressure of not letting his father down and keeping the family name strong. The Ghost’s message in the same scene exemplifies the idea of vengeance which could be described “-the kind of tit-for-tat retribution required of the Senecan revenger.” (429). The advice given by his father is paramount for Hamlet, as moves his motivations to a level he had direction in solving.

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When Hamlet meets with the ghost King Hamlet in the opening scene, he realizes that his father is murdered by Claudius. From Act I scene 5, the ghost King Hamlet is asking Hamlet to seek for revenge, “So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear” (1.5.12). By knowing this, Hamlet starts the revenge for his father and sets the tone of the entire play where death, revenge, murder, and suicide become the symbols of the whole play, and leads to the deaths of almost all the characters, including Claudius, Laertes, Polonius, Ophelia, Queen Gertrude, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet himself. Also, because of his father’s death and his mother’s quick marriage with Claudius, Hamlet has the idea of committing suicide. From Act I scene 2, "O, that this too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself to dew" (1.2.133-134).

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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.

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Firstly, Hamlet is a play of a man by the name of Hamlet, whose father was murdered by Claudius, his uncle. Claudius murdered the king by pouring poison in his ear to claim the throne for himself. Hamlet is then told by a ghost to murder Claudius for revenge, and he struggles within himself for the length of play whether to do it or not. When Hamlet begins to hesitate it does more damage than good and causes a chain reaction of tragic events, and makes the readers question whether Hamlet is truly sane or not. Claudius’s corruptness begins to show when he uses his authority to order those around him to rid of Hamlet.

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As Hamlet reaches the climax of the play, his entrapment comes in the form of malevolence towards Claudius in Act III, scene iv. This is when Hamlet stabs Polonius through the curtain, and then voices how he will fully commit to violent actions against the king, after the Ghost tells Hamlet again to do what he has been told. “I do repent; but heaven hath pleased it so, to punish me with this, and this with me, that I must be their

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This, along with how quickly his mother then married the murderous uncle, and at the request of his father's ghost sparks the thought of revenge in Prince Hamlet. Imagine the passionate feelings of betrayal associated with the loss of a father along with the lack of apparent mourning from everyone, including the widow. Despite these feelings, Prince Hamlet struggles with the thought of revenge, as evidenced by his inaction when he has the opportunity while Claudius appears to be praying and then again during his famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy. In the end revenge is served, doubly, as Prince Hamlet stabs Claudius with a poisoned sword and makes

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When Hamlet’s father returns to Denmark as a ghost, he tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him. Hamlet listens closely, and when his father tells him to take revenge for his death he says “Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift, as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.” This shows Hamlet is eager to take revenge for his father’s death. He becomes obsessed, trying to avenge his father’s death. This causes him to inadvertently kill Polonius, an innocent victim.

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77-100) of his play , Hamlet, William Shakespeare depicts Hamlet, following Claudius’s revelation of his guilt, as he is faced with the opportunity to kill his father’s murderer while he prays. Finally, Hamlet has the chance to fulfill his promise to his father and enact revenge, but ultimately decides killing his uncle in prayer would neither bring self-satisfaction nor redemption. Through his seething tone and imagery, Shakespeare demonstrates Hamlet’s extreme hatred of Claudius as well as the difficulty in pursuing internally satisfying revenge on one’s enemies.

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The common theme of revenge is portrayed throughout one of William Shakespeare’s most famous play’s known as Hamlet. In the story of Hamlet, there are multiple characters that could possibly take on the role of a villain, adding to many of the tragic and dramatic parts of the story. The most obvious evil character being Claudius, the King of Denmark and the brother of the former King of Denmark known as Hamlet’s father. Throughout the play, Claudius is driven by his evil-like qualities of greed, revenge, and dishonesty where we learn that he portrays the role of Prince Hamlet’s enemy. Claudius is a complex character who shows the perfect example of a “quintessential Shakespearean antagonist” (Claudius: Character Analysis, cliffnotes.com).

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