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Meaning Of Life And Vengeance In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Hamlet talks to his father’s ghost in the play, he listens to his request to get revenge upon Polonius, and to make everything right. But aside from Hamlet no one seems to see the ghost. His mother didn’t see the ghost during the bedroom scene, but Hamlet did. Causing suspicion to arise, maybe after all he was in need of help. Maybe he wasn’t able to get over the death of his father so he imagined him there. Even his own mother thinks he was losing his mind. A normal person wouldn’t be taking request from the dead, especially when it comes to murder. Hamlet truly believes that this is his goal, to get vengeance for his father. That’s the only thing he thinks about. He then beginning to doubt the meaning of life, he thinks of death is something
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Although he died young he died knowing he made good on the promise to his father. It is not made perfectly clear whether Hamlet is at peace with his untimely death, but he does make it clear with his dying words that he wishes people to know he died not a villain but a hero “Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind/ me!/If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart/ Absent thee from felicity a while,/And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain/ To tell my story.”

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“ Everything that moves hamlet to ponder suicide is his mother and claudius`s fault (Source 5,Point1).“And Hamlet's grief itself is indirectly expressed in his sense of loss and his idealization of his father. ”Hamlet is lost without his father and traumatized at what happened to him (Source 5,Point2).Hamlet contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of death because of he is under immense grief from his father's death and is trying to find a way to end it but his conscience keeps him from committing what he believes is a noble

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This is explained by the Ghost when Hamlet learns of his father being murdered in Act 1 Scene 5, in lines 35 -39, “’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life . Now wears his crown.” 2) The soliloquies that Hamlet provides over the sequence of the entire play allows us to distinguish what Hamlet was thinking about and display how he was losing his sanity.

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He doesn't even consider his friends’ suggestions or pay them any attention. Hamlet draws a sword on his friends forcing them to let him go and follows the mysterious ghost into the forest without any contemplation. Hamlet is basically thinking to himself “what is there to lose?” He doesn't find much value in his life. This is known because of how many times he contemplates life or death in the story.

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In his first soliloquy, he expresses his intense grief and inner conflict of wanting to commit suicide but not wanting to be punished by God. From this the audience can infer one of Hamlet’s fatal flaws; he is indecisive. He is constantly searching for certainty, since he is unable to make decisions without it. Although Hamlet is wary of the story given to the public to explain the King’s sudden death, it is not until the ghost confirms his suspicions and he uncovers the truth that he vows to “Remember thee!”. He suspects foul play was involved, yet he never acts on this uncertainty until certainty is provided for him.

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He was to the point where he thought it would just be easier to die than to live with all these struggles. Hamlet’s uncle Claudius killed his father which put a huge burden on his shoulders because he loved his father so much. What made it even worse was his mom, Gertrude, ended up marrying Claudius short after King Hamlet 's death. After the king was murdered, Hamlet saw his father’s “ghost” which told him that Claudius was in fact the one that killed him and that he wanted Hamlet to seek revenge for him by killing Claudius, but not to punish his mother for remarrying. He said it is not his place to do so and that heaven will judge her when it comes time.

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He questioned whether or not it was better to be alive or dead. At this moment, Hamlet is depressed and speaks out logical and emotional thoughts to himself. From this, we were able to conclude that Hamlet is discouraged with life. In addition, Hamlet’s perspective on life is formed from multiple events that had occurred. At the beginning of the play we learn that Hamlet’s father has died and this saddens him.

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Instead of taking action and killing claudius, he questions whether the ghost was actually his father asking to revenge his death or the devil resembling his father to try to tempt him into murder. In No Fear Shakespeare from Sparknotes, Hamlet talks about his doubts to believe the ghost is actually his father or not by saying “May be the devil, and the devil hath power T’ assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me (Act 2 Scene 2 Page 24). This shows how Hamlet was indecisive and how the ghost of his father was one of the major reasons why he was indecisive.

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