Laertes In Hamlet

In the play called Hamlet, characters like Laertes and Hamlet have both experienced their father’s murder. Their reactions display either right or wrong justifications throughout the play. Their reactions caused deaths, violence, and miscommunications to foil their plans of vengeance. Despite Laertes and Hamlet seeking vengeance, Hamlet’s reaction was worse than Laertes’s reaction.
One reason is that Hamlet’s reaction involved more innocent people to his bloodbath. Hamlet’s reaction caused innocent people like “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and other sailors killed” in the crossfire of Hamlet’s ship to England (4.6.19-20). His actions of being sad, philosophical, and dishonest to Claudius and his associates enabled Claudius to send Hamlet on a boat to England to get executed. In William Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Hamlet unknowing “commits meaningless abuse to gain unplanned pleasure and recklessness in the play” (Jorgensen.52). With Hamlet’s tunnel vision, his actions in the play were destined to get more people harmed. Compared to Laertes’s involving people to his bloodbath, Laertes’s reaction was more

Before Laertes’s and Hamlet’s slow death from the poison of their swords, Hamlet waits for Laertes to ask for “forgiveness” (5.2.315). Hamlet’s action of being prideful gets him killed in his plan for vengeance, and Hamlet had the audacity to wait until the last moment of his death to hear Laertes asking for forgiveness. Hamlet “actions are delayed because he want to execute his vengeance plot” (Jorgensen.48). Comparing to Laertes, Laertes also waited for the last moment to pressure hamlet to beg for his life. However, Laertes failed because he was going to be the first person to die in the duel. So, Laertes become the first person to ask for redemption by telling the truth to Hamlet. Laertes’s reaction to become the first man to ask for forgiveness makes Laertes’s action morally