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Hamlet Self Respect Analysis

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Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator about the role self-respect plays when an individual responds to injustice. Self-respect, or self-esteem is a feeling of confidence and pride of an individual or the feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity. Self-respect affects an individual in all kinds of perspective such as confidence, sense of honor or even an individual’s response to injustice. William Shakespeare developed the idea that when facing injustice, the action an individual take is related to self-respect. His play Hamlet discusses a number of injustice for instance, Hamlet’s uncle killed his father and married his mom, Ophelia is used by his father and the King, etc. The difference in the action of each individual …show more content…

When Laertes is confronting Claudius with the death of his father he says “Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! [He dares] damnation. To this point [he stands], that both the words [he gives] to negligence, let come what comes, only [he’ll] be revenged most thoroughly for [his] father.” (Act IV scene iv l.138-142) For revenging his father, Laertes is willing to throw his conscience and grace to hell and don’t care about the consequences his revenge will lead to. He focuses on the revenge and put everything else behind. His self-respect has made him fearless and determinate. When Claudius asks him to what extent is he willing to kill Hamlet and avenge his father, Laertes answered “[He will] cut his throat in the church.” (Act IV scene vii l.139)Laertes is determinate, to avenge his father, he is willing to give anything to avenge his father, even if he has to give up his religious belief, even if he will kill, even if he has to go to hell after he’s dead for what he had done. Due to his high self-respect, instead of putting things behind and move on, he chooses to stand up and bravely fight against all the injustices. Even though he knows that these are difficult to conquer, on account for his self-respect, he does his best to fight and tries to set things

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His main goal is to ensure Hamlet’s death, which is motivated by his guilt. He writes a letter to the King of England saying to execute him, which fails. He then persuades Laertes to duel with Hamlet by feeding him lies. However, guilt brings out the truth in people, and Laertes confesses during battle the truth about Claudius and his plan. Hamlet furiously stabs Claudius to death.

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Evidently, Laertes immediately assumes Claudius is to blame for the death of his father and swears that from this moment onwards, he will fight to avenge Polonius. This is a clear contrasting view of how Hamlet is indecisive about what he should do to get his own revenge for his father, as he puts off murdering Claudius for a long time. Though, this suggests that Laertes is more hasty than Hamlet due to his fury. Laertes believes that he must kill whomever killed his father without question. On the contrary, Hamlet takes his time to plan out how he will kill who killed his father.

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This can be presented through the events with Laertes, In the scene showing the burial of Ophelia they both jump in the coffin and start fighting. Hamlet pulls out from the fight first, giving us a hint of his Maturity growth. We see that with all the trouble Hamlet has experience, his become a bigger person and realizes that Laertes also lost his father and sympathizes with him. He comes clean and admits his wrongdoings saying “give me pardon sir…. I have done you wrong”.

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He blames everything on Claudius because he is the one that killed Hamlet’s father and now his mother. This give Hamlet peace about all of the events that have lead to this moment. We should learn from this that revenge in haste can be chaotic and unsuccessful. Revenge may not always be the answer, but if that is what you choose, then it needs to be well thought out and tested for flaws. I think that Laertes got the revenge that he wanted and even though it resulted in his own death as well, he got some closure that he needed.

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Wrath more closely represents laertes in this scene but it does not skip over claudius due to this plan to have Hamlet killed that Claudius himself

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Throughout the play Hamlet continues to act insane and even dies with the act continuing. Even after Hamlet gathers all the evidence that proves Claudius is the murder, Hamlet continues to behave in a strange way. When he mistakenly murders Polonius he does not react as a sane person would. This act enrages Laertes, who then wants to avenge his father’s death. Driven to madness by the murder of his father, Laertes, with the help of Claudius conspires to kill Hamlet.

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Laertes was worried about his and his dad’s pride so he decide to murder hamlet. Laertes plans the big fencing match with Hamlet. He tricked hamlet and poisoned the tip of his sword. After he poisoned the tip of his sword everything went downhill. Laertes was being greedy because he wanted his dad to be king and stay king.

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Additionally, they are both vengeful. Hamlet shows that he is vengeful when he says “Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge”. Laertes shows that he is vengeful when he wants to kill Hamlet. They also both care about Ophelia. On the other hand, Hamlet and Laertes have some differences.

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Similarly, Laertes is known for being a good fighter, a man of action, and having the ability to lead. During the play, Laertes states, “To cut his throat i’th’ church”(4.7.98). Laertes here claims he would go as far as kill Hamlet in the church, something almost unheard of for the

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Then, Laertes chooses to become a participant in the killing of Hamlet. As aforementioned, this plan for death is a success, but causes many other deaths along with Hamlet to fail.

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By doing this she leaves Laertes all alone in the world. When Hamlet returns from England to hear this news he is petrified. He becomes angry with Laertes for grieving too much and in return Laertes is angry at Hamlet because he thinks this is all his fault. The two gramble at each other. This leading to the last act of cruelty.

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This is an act of villainy because Hamlet didn’t know that Laertes’s sword was poisoned which means that Hamlet wounds Laertes out of anger, and would mean that Hamlet would be seen again as a murder to the people of Denmark. This again shows that Hamlet could be considered to many as a villain instead of in Hamlet’s mind a hero. When Hamlet has the opportunity to kill Claudius while he is praying, he stops himself and which could be seen as the most active part of Hamlet’s villainous trait stops himself from killing Claudius. Hamlet justifies this action because in his mind Claudius would be sent to heaven and decides that if he is to kill Claudius if needs to happen when Claudius is committing a sin (III, iii, 74-97). When Hamlet decides this it truly reveals himself as a villain because he is scheming to send Claudius to a place worse than purgatory.

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