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The Feminist Cause Of Deaths In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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This was by far the most crucial point in the story! So many things happened as a result of this happening or should I say not happening. This event was the direst cause of multiple unnecessary deaths such as Gertrude (hamlets mother) and Polonius (Ophelia’s father) the events in hamlet (third act) would have played out differently if hamlet had killed Claudius during prayer by preventing the deaths of Gertrude and Ophelia’s father. The reason Hamlet wanted to do this was because a ghost appeared and a couple guards saw it. They reported it to Hamlet and then hamlet had to see for himself. Hamlet chased after the apparition until he was led into a dark forest. There the ghost had told him that hamlets father (who was the ghost) had been murdered by Claudius his brother for the throne! He told hamlet to revenge him. During Claudius’s prayer hamlet was waiting in the room next to him with a dagger he had the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius but stopped himself. Why? Because he didn’t think the death was good enough for Claudius. He wanted Claudius to suffer worse than that because Claudius had killed his father. …show more content…

When Hamlet decided not to kill Claudius with the dagger during his prayer. More drama with Ophelia spread which had only field hamlets anger even more. Her father waited and listened to the conversation between hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet found them out and chased after him. He found his mother and yelled and fought with her while confronting her about his father and her husband’s death. Claudius was in the wrong pace at the wrong time and was killed by hamlet! He stabbed him as he hid behind a curtain of some sort. It was an accident but he didn’t seem very regretful. In fact he simply didn’t

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In this case, Hamlet’s goal is to revenge Claudius—to have Claudius admit his sin and justify his crime with death; however, Hamlet is being overthinking of the importance of justification in a religious way and he gives up the best opportunity to kill Claudius that happens in this scene. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying and now I’ll do’s; and so he goes to heaven; and so am I revenged.” (Lines 74-75) He is considering not killing Claudius at this moment because he may fail to achieve his revenge by sending Claudius to heaven instead of hell. Apparently, religion plays an important role in this play--Hamlet was affected by his belief of salvation at almost every moment of decision making and made emotional decisions that push him in a dangerous situation.

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