“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” William Shakespeare (the author of Hamlet) said this. The book Hamlet is all about revenge, and wrongs doings. During this play characters go through faces and act out on their emotions. These emotions drive them to do the unthinkable, however, while seeking revenge their plans backfire. Hamlet is the main character of the play, and is the first person to act out in revenge. When he finds out about his father's assassination, he starts plotting against his uncle/stepfather, the king. People, including his lover, thought he was going insane because of the way he was acting. He could’ve killed him but he wanted to make it grand, however, he ended up killing Polonius his lover’s father. Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle/stepfather, he killed his own brother to become king, the married his brother’s wife, Hamlet’s mom (Gertrude). When everyone else thinks that Hamlet has gone mad, he suspects that there’s something else going on. He sends out a letter to assassinate Hamlet but he intercepts this letter and has someone else killed. When Gertrude tells Claudius that Hamlet had assassinated Polonius, he starts plotting against Hamlet with Laertes. …show more content…
After the death of her father, Ophelia goes mad, and ends up committing suicide. This drives Laertes to hate Hamlet with all his might, and plans to poison Hamlet with the help of the King. Laertes challenges Hamlet to a dual, and they were planning to poison Laertes sword as well as Hamlet’s wine. The plan goes exactly the opposite they were expecting; Hamlet does get cut with the poisoned blade but his mom ends up drinking the poisoned wine. Laertes gets poisoned with the blade as well, and the king dies by Hamlets
Laertes was rash and quick to judge. When first coming back to Denmark he had a sword to Claudius’s neck thinking Claudius killed his father. Laertes wanted to see his father’s murder die, so he challenged him to a duel. Laertes poisoned his rapier to make sure it was Hamlet’s last fight. Laertes wanted to kill same as Hamlet.
He acted so crazy that he started blaming everyone else, and almost forgot about his anger towards Claudius. He acted so crazy towards the Queen, Ophelia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that he ended up hurting those people’s emotions, which led to Ophelia’s suicide as well. Hamlet showed us how not to live by not being himself. He may have wanted to kill Claudius and had all of the evidence to do so but acting like he was crazy was not who he was. This led to his tragic flaw which was his indecisiveness to kill Claudius when he had the chance.
He tells Laertes in order to make sure the young man gets revenge for his father, King Claudius will have them fence, and stack the odds in Laertes favor. He places poison on the edge of Laertes’ sword and places poison in the drink of Hamlet. When the fight is about to take place, Hamlet comes to Laertes and tells him he knows what he did was totally unjust. He asks for Laertes’ forgiveness, claiming it wasn’t truly Hamlet’s fault, rather than Hamlet’s mental illness to blame.
The term revenge is prevalent in the play Hamlet multiple times. My definition of revenge is the desire to get back at someone for something they have done to that person. This term is throughout the whole play. One of the first times that the concept is mentioned is when Hamlet finds out about his father being killed.
Polonius’s death did not only affect Ophelia, but it also caused Laertes to go mad with revenge, desiring “To cut his [Hamlet’s] throat i’ the church” (109, line 124). Not only does Laertes go mad with a murderous craving for retribution, he also shows mental deterioration of logic in his planning for Hamlet’s demise. Laertes is so obsessed by creating many ways to kill hamlet (with a sword, poison on a sword, poison on a cup, slitting his throat in a church) that he accidentally causes the fatality of Hamlet, himself, Claudius, and
The main plot of the story is about Claudius killing King Hamlet ,“I am still possess’d Of those effects for which i did the murder — My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.”(Act 3 Scene 3), and prince Hamlet getting revenge. But it’s Claudius who began the killing spree, you could say Claudius was getting revenge on King Hamlet since he had such a successful life as the King. He then marries the king's wife just weeks after killing him, irritating Hamlet. This leads Hamlet into his own revenge spree.
When Hamlet accidentally kills Laertes’s father, Polonius , Laertes immediately returns to Denmark from France where he was studying at college. He storms King Claudius’s castle with a mob. He desires revenge and does not waste any time before trying to get it. When Claudius convinces him that he is innocent in his father’s death he immediately agrees with Claudius’s plan to get revenge on Hamlet. While Hamlet is hesitant Laertes is brash and impulsive.
Soon after, his sister Ophelia is pronounced dead which only intensifies his anger towards Hamlet. Laertes bellows at Hamlet, “The devil take thy soul!”(5.1.243), uncovering that he accuses Hamlet for the passing of his dad and now sister. This drive is what prompted Laertes to collaborate with Claudius in Hamlet’s murder yet ultimately leading to his own death. This thirst for vengeance causes him to act quickly and abruptly, unintentionally getting poisoned by his own sword. Though Laertes surely illustrates how revenge can lead to one’s downfall, there is one character that proves this to be true even more so.
Hamlet was given the prime opportunity to kill Claudius when he found him on his knees begging for forgiveness. Hamlet negated not to kill him right then and there because he wanted Claudius to go to hell, not heaven. Hamlet’s lack of sanity, or his tragic flaw, in the play is definitely what caused his inability to
Laertes is quick compared to Hamlet’s twoish-months plot. Laertes returned to mourn his father and finds out that it was Hamlet who killed him. So when Ophelia kills herself from the grief of her father’s passing it only angers him more. He starts plotting and getting manipulated by Claudius to get rid of Hamlet. “Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech.
Hamlet, also, could not get over the death of his father. He found out when his father’s ghost came back that his brother, and Hamlet’s uncle, murdered him. He then was willing to do anything possible to get revenge on Claudius, his uncle. Both of
King Hamlet, the ghost, sets up Hamlet's downfall regarding betrayal by making him swear multiple times to seek revenge. Hamlet’s only goal is to mask the feeling of sorrow and grieving of his father by achieving revenge. Revenge however does not solve anything, it only creates more problems. Hamlet is betrayed by everyone and everything. Hamlet was betrayed by all members of his family, himself, and the world.
Claudius, as seen in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is both intelligent and clever, two traits that, put together, complement his manipulative and dangerous nature. Due to his cunning nature he portrays the role of a very complex villain. The death of King Hamlet by Claudius results in Prince Hamlet to act out of character, which thus resulted in the tragic death of Polonius and Ophelia. While Hamlet and Gertrude were having conversation, Polonius was hiding behind the huge carpet that was hanging on the wall. Unknowingly, Hamlet stabs Polonius.
Laertes returns to Denmark upon hearing the news of his father’s death, and straight away threatens to kill Claudius unless he gets answers. At the time, threatening a king was a capital punishment, which shows the extent Laertes is willing to go to get his revenge. Even after Claudius explains everything to Laertes, Laertes still wants his revenge and would like to kill Hamlet. Hamlet and Laertes were pretty close, so this once again shows how far Laertes is willing to go to enact his revenge, which is borderline mad. Finally, upon hearing the news of Ophelia’s death, Laertes is once again filled rage.
(Shakespeare. 4.5.114-115). He does not give Claudius a chance to speak, or ask questions, he just assumes. The king convinces Laertes to back down because Hamlet did it and not him. This cause Laertes to want revenge on Hamlet. Before he has a chance to get revenge, Ophelia dies.