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Justice And Corruption In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Hamlet’s insight behind justice and rightful revenge derives from the precept of the divine rights of kings. Although it’s pretty straightforward where Hamlet’s personal grudge for Claudius came from, the most compelling rationale behind his actions is to reform the splintering state of Denmark. From this, the only way to dispose of the corruption is by addressing the source, which Hamlet determines to be Claudius. Once Claudius dared the divine right of the king and committed a grisly murder, he began the destruction of the country. It’s because of this rationalization, Hamlet believes that it’s his God given opportunity to condemn Claudius 's soul as punishment for his behavior. Due to this, Hamlet believes that he trusts his reasoning,
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And so he goes to heaven, And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven” (3.3.78-83). In this quote, Hamlet mistakenly thinks that Claudius is praying since he on his knees and this shows the true anger that Hamlet has. Just killing Claudius isn 't enough, Hamlet must make sure that Claudius is being sent directly to Hell where he will suffer for eternity. One of the most prominent times we see Hamlet’s anger is when he murders Polonius, the father to Ophelia, his lover, thinking that it was Claudius.

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From a young age, Claudius dreamed of being king and he was looking hopeful until Hamlet stole the throne from beneath him. This betrayal manifested inside Claudius and he was determined to reap his revenge, even if he never envisaged going to Hell, it was in the grasps of possibility. He felt like this was the only way to prove himself superior. Killing the King in his slumber, even if it meant everlasting

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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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Hamlet's uncle claudius killed king hamlet out of envy. It was envy for the throne and for the power to be the king of denmark. In act three scene three he clearly states that he murdered king hamlet for his own ambition, for the crown and for the queen of denmark, Gertrude. A lot of the deadly sin envy goes around throughout the story of hamlet. A lot of people want something someone else has.

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And so am I revenged. That would be scanned, a villain kills my father, and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven” (line 74-79). Hamlet believes that Claudius is praying and doesn’t want to kill him, because he doesn’t want him to go to heaven. This inability is the tragic mistake that hamlets creates, to his soon to be

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Corruption Where there is corruption, there is dishonest and wrongdoing being conducted. In this tragedy play Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses King Claudius by revealing how power can lead to corruption. He does this by revealing King Claudius as the murderer of his own brother, and to tries to cover up his crime by trying to kill Hamlet but ends up killing Queen Gertrude and was later poisoned by Hamlet hand.

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Justice is an unusual subject. The word is sometimes undefined in some instances, Justice is often mistaken for revenge. There’s always a debate about whether revenge and justice are the same thing. You either get justice or not get justice, but every once in awhile there’s a moment where Justice wasn’t served but the person got what they wanted. HAMLET’S JUSTICE

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Not all people respond with hate and revenge, some people let themselves get walked over but not hamlet. Hamlet does not respond to injustice too kindly. He wants revenge for his father's death, wants to set things right, help out whoever is in charge of people receiving karma by taking things into his own hands. His main goal in the novel is to seek revenge on his father's death, this started when he was visited by the ghost of the old king. The ghost said to him “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” the ghost of the old king wanted Hamlet to seek revenge on claudius for his ‘unnatural” murder of the kind.

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However, Hamlet’s goes through a journey of different feelings towards this motivation. Hamlet is initially ardent to kill Claudius, driven by his anger and hate towards him. For example, Hamlet describes his hate for Claudius when he exclaims, “O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!... At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark (1.5.107–110). His description of Claudius as the villain shows that Hamlet seeks to commit justice for the corruption that Claudius has brought about.

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Looking back, the superheroes you admired gave you a sense of justice that involved a punishment of incarceration or even death. However, this does not bring back the lives of the dead or fix the issues of the inflicted. As you get older, you may come in contact with a few stories that challenge that very notion of justice, such as “Hamlet”, by Shakespeare and “Killings”, by Andre Dubus. These stories share a similarity in that both characters, Hamlet and Matt respectively, seek retribution in their journey for justice as nearly all justice stems from that, the desire for retribution. HAMLET : Hamlet’s defines justice as a punishment for those who have wronged others.

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First off, Hamlet was set during the Elizabethan era. That time the punishment was severe torture. Heads and limbs were cut off, people were whipped, it was so different from today. Even the Catholic Church at that time used torture to make people confess. Given that the play’s characters were Christian believers and monarchs was believed to be appointed by God Himself by Elizabethans, there is no other way to serve justice for what Claudius did except to kill him.

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He sought to avenge the death of his father, thus giving his father justice. However, Hamlet’s quest for vengeance did not allow him to remain a righteous character, but instead turned him into a villain. Claudius who is seen as the villain is only responsible for the death of one person, while Hamlet is responsible for numerous. He kills three himself, causes Ophelia to commit suicide, arranges the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, forces Claudius to drink poison even though he is already dying from a poisoned sword wound. So while Hamlet is justified in wanting to extract revenge for the death of his father he was not justified in the amount of deaths that he caused either directly or indirectly.

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Hamlet is presented with several opportunities to pursue his vengeance, but delays each time for multiple reasons in which reveal his true nature. There are many reasons Hamlet restrains from killing Claudius. Firstly, Hamlet does not know whether the ghost should be believed or if it is just the devil in disguise trying to trick him. This is a valid reason because if the ghost is the devil, then Hamlet’s soul will be damned to the Hell. Hamlet’s

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