In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he uses the guise of his family members to blur the line between doing what’s right for his family and exacting revenge for his slain father. In the story Hamlet must make many decisions that can benefit his family or hurt it. After the death of his father, he is devastated and many thoughts enter his mind. One of these thoughts concerns the rise to power of his uncle. Considering how quickly his mother recovers from the death of her husband and continues to be queen to his uncle unsettles Hamlet. Struck by grief and speculation Hamlet goes to the extremes in order to avenge his father. It’s difficult to determine if Hamlet made the right choice, killing his uncle and accidentally killing his mother as well in order to bring justice to his father. It is apparent that Hamlet does not decide to immediately seek revenge on his uncle for his fathers’ death and instead enters a madness trying to find the right thing to do. It is understandable that he might not act on this information that was given to him by his dead fathers’ ghost …show more content…
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, his main characters die similarly to those in Hamlet. Drinking poison is a common theme in both of these plays and you learn to not grow attached to any of the characters for fear of them being killed off later on in the story. The characters in these plays have a way of being developed well throughout the story and then tragically killed at the end of the story. This proves true in Hamlet, Shakespeare develops Hamlets character by showing how distraught he is by his fathers death and how it would make sense that he is attracted to Ophelia but instead rejects her. But then at the end of the play Hamlet reveals that he loved Ophelia the whole time. But staying true to a Shakespeare play, Hamlet and the rest of these main characters including Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes die at the