Examples Of Evil In Hamlet

King Hamlet was the King of Denmark and Claudius was his brother. To gain power, Claudius killed his brother and took the throne. He then married his sister in law,Gertrude, soon after. Claudius tells everyone that there is no need to mourn over the king, saying “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe,Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him Together with remembrance of ourselves” Hamlet (I.IV.1-7), upsetting Hamlet even more. Claudius ends up going mad from the guilt eating him alive from killing his own brother. He says "O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?' That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder --My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen" Hamlet(III, iii, 55-58).

Claudius wants Hamlet to look up to him as a father, rather than resenting him for the way he inherited the throne, and married his mother so soon after King Hamlet’s death. In Act I, scene 2, Claudius says, “To do obsequious sorrow. But to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness. ‘Tis unmanly grief.” (Shakespeare 92-94) What Claudius is saying, in modern terms, is Hamlet is allowed to grieve and mourn for a certain period of time, but after that period is over, it is considered unacceptable and unmanly. He wants Hamlet to get over his father’s death and look up to him, so he can get the admiration he needs.

The fact that Claudius and Gertrude want to get marry so fast leads to different thoughts. Claudius speaks to the royalty and not to the entire castle that includes the lower class because he does not want to raise suspicions. He could have killed King Hamlet, so he would be the maximum authority in the state of Denmark politically, socially, and economically. Gertrude and Claudius might have been lovers in the past and their rise to power has been carefully planned and executed. And Gertrude wants to preserve her power and high position in Denmark.

It is clear how Hamlet a lack of communication with his family. Although what happen with his father do not justify his actions it does justify his emotions. Hamlet loved his father very much. With any loss of a dear person, the human reactions towards the lost are always unknown. The grief Hamlet felt was so intense it was the main reason on why he could not forgive his mom for marrying his uncle. It is unknown why Queen Gertrude married King Claudius. Perhaps she married him for love, grief, or even the sake of Denmark, During this time period if the king died the queen must remarry or the prince must get married to become the next king if neither of the events happens the next person (not the prince) must take the throne. Queen Gertrude

After killing Polonius, Hamlet feel no guilt at all, he acts indifferently. The audience can evidence how appearances and reality come back into play when Queen Gertrude cries out, “O, what a rash and bloody deed is this” (Act 3, scene 4, page 106). Hamlet, responds without repentance, “A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother.” (Act 3, scene 4, page 106). After this statement made by Hamlet, there is a twist in the scene. Instead of the scene being centered towards the death of Polonius, it becomes centered towards Hamlet’s obsession and hatred towards his mother for betraying him and his father by the rapid and opportune marriage to

His actions were not justified in the treatment of his mother Gertrude. When the ghost of Hamlet’s father appeared he told Hamlet not to blame Gertrude and to tell her not to sleep with the king. When he enters his mother’s room, he thinks that someone is hiding behind the curtains. Hamlet stabs and kills Polonius thinking he is the king. He makes many accusations against Gertrude which was against the ghost intentions. He tells her that she loves Claudius merely after the king dies. He tells her that she has married Claudius not even two months after the king’s death. Because Hamlet had made these accusations against Gertrude, she had felt guilty because she had stated that HAmlet’s words felt like daggers in her ears and repeatedly told him to stop. The ghost of king Hamlet appears and tells Hamlet not to blame Gertrude. Because of this Hamlet’s actions are not justified because he has gone against the ghost’s instructions of blaming Gertrude and the delay of the killing of

Hamlet felt like his mother did not care for his deceased father enough. I think it was very disrespectful in all ways for Gertrude to even marry her late husband's brother. I feel that Gertrude and Claudius should have had more respect for the deceased and if they were to get married more than a month after the man’s death. In today’s society people would give Gertrude and Claudius ugly looks and talk about how nasty it is that they got together. People in today’s society would pity Hamlet to have to deal with his situation.

In the play of Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet, has a very rough life for a prince. His father, King Hamlet, was murdered by his own uncle, Claudius. Claudius went on to marry Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, making Claudius Hamlet's uncle and stepfather, and Gertrude his mother and aunt. Hamlet finds out that Claudius killed King Hamlet when King Hamlet visits him as a ghost. Hamlet looks for ways of getting Claudius to confess to the murder of his father to expose him of what he really is. In the end of the play, despite all of Hamlet's best efforts, Claudius has to resort to murdering Hamlet in order to keep him quiet. I believe that Gertrude was innocent of conspiring with her husband about the murder of her son.

The biggest betrayal is from his own mom, this prompts him to get revenge which is still a common method of feeling good when someone does something bad. Hamlet feels betrayed by his mom because she married claudiu, her late husband's brother, not even two months after the death of his father. This hurt Hamlet because his mom seemed to love Hamlet’s dad but then just gets over him and remarries really early. Hamlet’s mom acted as if his dad wasn’t important to her at all.

She spurs Hamlet’s anger throughout the play, because she marries Claudius so quickly. Once Hamlet finds out that Claudius is the one who murdered the late King Hamlet, it drives him even more insane that his mother would be one to marry so quickly. The act of marrying another man when she should be grieving implies that she is only using the marriage for her social status to remain as queen, especially before she had proper time to mourn King Hamlet. Critics say that the act of marriage so quickly was to save her role as Queen. That she is a frail woman that has allowed herself to be seduced by Claudius (Aguirre). Being a frail woman or not, her allowing herself to be seduced by Claudius and her hasty marriage shows that she is in fact a desperate woman. In an analysis of Queen Gertrude, it can be seen that her hasty marriage to Claudius makes her desperate to keep her social status as Queen, with no regards to her first husband’s death, or Hamlet’s

“To be or not to be,” says Hamlet, acknowledging the presence of Claudius standing out of sight. The presence of betrayal is common throughout history, especially literary pieces such as Hamlet. One would even say the plot revolves around betrayal. Shakespeare’s use of betrayal served the purpose of unveiling the characters for who they really are. It does this by, pushing the character to abandoning their values and placing their family, friends, and kingdom in harm.

Betrayal in its very nature is going against the trust of someone and doing something that will hurt them in the long run (1). In Hamlet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, people betray one another left and right. Betrayal is the driving force of all the actions in this play; at all times of this play someone is being betrayed. This play starts with a death and ends with death. It does so because of the betrayal that is perpetrated by the different characters in the play.

When Hamlet died Queen Gertrude was quick to marry his brother, Claudius. Hamlet II was very distraught and was grieving over his lost father, while Gertrude doesn’t seem to deal with the death of her husband. She even says, “Thou know’st ‘tis common- all that lives must die…” (1.2.71). This shows two things

A lot of moral corruption can be seen in today’s society. We see it in movies, on TV, in books, on social media, and many other things. Moral corruption means doing something, regardless of it being right or wrong, for your own benefit, like stealing, lying, committing adultery, etc. It is a very prominent theme throughout Hamlet. Almost all of the characters perform some kind of moral corruption, whether it be Claudius killing his brother or Hamlet conspiring to kill Claudius.

In many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, the playwright draws a connection between the moral health of the kingdom and the corruption of the ruler himself. In Hamlet, he explores the extent to which corruption influences characters. By utilising animal and nature imagery, Shakespeare exemplifies how sexual and political vices corrupt characters and ultimately lead to their demise.