Why Is Fortinbras Important In Hamlet

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The drama illustrates the rage for revenge that follows the King's assassination by his brother, who then assumes the throne. The play's main motivator is the idea of payback. Along with Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras also desire justice.Revenge is feeling that exists in people from since they themselves exist, also this psychological feeling is a primitive justice in the absence of norms and laws. People are often blinded by revenge and fail to realize that it causes more harm than good. This was also true for our characters in the play Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Leartes. All three of them were driven by revange and they had same reason for it, it is death of his fathers, difference was just between how much each of them was ready to do what …show more content…

Minor character Fortinbras has attributes that highlight what makes Hamlet unusual. Throughout the play, Fortinbras' traits bring out both the best and the worst in Hamlet. Hamlet's soliloquy in Act IV Scene IV highlights all of Fortinbras' admirable traits. . Fortinbras motivates Hamlet to take active steps just by watching him and his actions that he took. Hamlet is aware that he has been planning Claudius's murder far too carefully. Fortinbras, on the other hand, is driven and acts on his beliefs and did not think much about consequences. For instance, Young Fortinbras made it clear in the letter to the King that he would reclaim the territory that his father had lost. In his decision there is no second thoughts or waiting for a better time, he is immediately ready for action, there is not time to lose. His father's death gave him a strong will to act and not to think about whether the decision is right and whether he should do it. Fortinbras believes that his father's passing and the loss of his Norwegian lands reflect poorly on both of them. He thinks that reclaiming the land lost in the conflict will bring Norway back to its dignified pre-conflict state. However, while Hamlet sits around waffling between life and death, Fortinbras makes a decisive and prompt decision to raise an army to retake …show more content…

Like hamlet and Fortinbras Leartes also lost his father and wants to avenge him. When he heard what happened to his father he immediately felt anger and anger was force that drove him. He is suspicious, as we can see in his speech to Claudius. How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with. / To hell, allegiance! He shows that he is looking for the culprit for his fathe's death not hiding his intentions in contrast to Hamlet who kept his secret of seeing his father as a ghost who told him that he was murdered by his