Hamlet is one of the most quoted and memorable of William Shakespeare’s plays. In Hamlet, Hamlet learns that his father, King of Denmark, was murdered by his own brother, Hamlets uncle. Hamlets father was killed before he could confess leaving him in purgatory, which means that he is left to roam the Earth, going to neither Heaven or Hell. Hamlet is so enraged he tells his father he would avenge his death so that his father will be free from purgatory;however, Hamlet has run into some obstacles. Hamlet first has to make sure that his uncle is the real killer, Hamlet doesn't know whether to trust his fathers ghost and Hamlet doesn't want to kill anyone. Before Hamlet can get revenge for his father he must make sure that his uncle is the real …show more content…
In Elizabethan time when this play was written ghosts were often said to be the devil. The devil is said to be able to take on any shape. When Hamlet see his fathers ghost he is unable to tell whether it really is his dad or the devil. It is said that the devil would tell people to do terrible things so when Hamlets dad asks Hamlet to kill his uncle he becomes a little suspicious. Nonetheless Hamlet still plans on murdering his uncle to free his father from purgatory. When Hamlet first sees his dad Hamlet is so shocked he said “Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d/Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,/Be thy intent wicked or charitable”. In this passage he questions the ghosts …show more content…
Hamlets loss hits him harder than it does anyone else in his family especially his mother who married her late husbands brother. Hamlet sees this quick marriage as a betrayal of his father. Hamlet explains his feelings on the quick marriage as this “ Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears/Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,/She married. O most wicked speed, to post/With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” Hamlet hated his uncle not only for taking his mother away, or taking his thrown, but most importantly for killing his father. Hamlet throughout the play battles with a conflict,should he kill his uncle? If Hamlet killed his uncle then he would be destined for Hell, since he was Christian and murdering is against their belief, yet if Hamlet doesn't kill his uncle then his father will still be left to roam the Earth. Not only will his father Roam the Earth, but what kind of son would he be if he did not get revenge for his