While some might think that Hamlet felt violence and bitterness throughout the entire play, Hamlet develops emotionally and mentally as a character, allowing him to become a better person than who he was at the start. Throughout Hamlet’s journey, emotions such as violence, fear, and anger drive his motives; he keeps portraying his actions as just, when in reality, it is pure revenge. Young people often let their emotions blind their true sense of justice and revenge. Hamlet develops as a character throughout the play and eventually becomes a good man. Act 1, scene 5 in Hamlet describes how the Ghost of King Hamlet states a mysterious command to his son which states, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”(pg23). This quote is the first …show more content…
Mine and my fathers deaths come not upon thee, nor thine on me”(119). This quote illustrates the mutual forgiveness that Laertes asks of Hamlet, despite the fact that they nearly killed each other. The words”exchange forgiveness” is like a transaction where both sides come together to accept the grief and conflicts that each had with one another. The two created harmony between one another and their families, and this is a crucial thing because both died at the end and it's beautiful that they both died with forgiveness and not hatred. The second part of the quote illustrates how both of them are equally responsible for the deaths and issues that occurred throughout the whole play and one isnt greater at fault as it states “come not upon thee nor thine on me”. Both sides suffered losses such as Hamlet losing his father and Laertes losing Polonius. The mutuality between these two at the end of the play shows the development of Hamlet as a person emotionally as he does not seek revenge anymore but instead justice with laertes. Hamlet could have easily neglected Laertes' forgiveness and taken it to his advantage and killed him. But instead, Hamlet's emotion corresponds to him choosing a “just” path, showing how Hamlet evolved over the course of this