How Does Hamlet Justify His Father's Death

Claudius realizes the state in which Laertes is in and uses it for his own use. Claudius in this passage is convincing Laertes that it was Hamlet who killed his father. He also convinces Laertes that he should kill Hamlet and also that he should not put a boundary on the revenge for his father. Laertes essentially turns into a tyrant when he rushes into the castle demanding the murderer to come forth while threatening King Claudius with Gertrude observing. The death and quick burial of his father had him in extreme suspense. Laertes is so angry he essentially strips himself of his faith and expresses that he is willing to be dammed to hell in order to kill the murderer of his father in a church! He says that he’s willing, “..to cut Hamlet’s throat i' th’ church” (IV.vii.140) Laertes challenges Hamlet to a duel even though he is not as great as a swordsman. With the first plan to kill Hamlet had failed, Claudius and Laertes scheme to poison the drink and sword in which either should kill him. Laertes indeed injures hamlet but hamlet does the deed twice. Throughout all of this Laertes dies in vain for when Laertes dies, he does not get to see his father’s murderer perish however he finally realizes that because of his short temper he has allowed himself to be used as a test rat for Claudius’ scheme.

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While Hamlet takes the entire play to attempt revenge, when Laertes hears about his dad’s murder, he reacts right away without hesitation or attempts to reason it. He threated to overthrow Claudius with back-up from a mob in Elsinore (Act IV, scene v). Then when Claudius tells Laertes that Hamlet is the reason for the death of his father, Laertes switches targets immediately. He doesn’t bother thinking it through about whether Claudius is being truthful or not and dives into Claudius’ plan to kill Hamlet. Following orders from the King, he plans to kill Hamlet with a poisoned sword during a fencing match with Hamlet. To ensure Hamlet’s death Claudius also poisons his drink but this backfires after his Queen drinks it by mistake and dies. In the end Hamlet, Laertes, and Claudius all fall to the poison blade.

Hamlet went from a mourning Prince of Denmark over the death of his father, to a revenge seeking murderer as the play progresses. This transition in character is evident through Hamlets meaning of life; the desire for justice. After the meeting with the ghost, his worldview completely changed to a craving for revenge. In today’s ever changing world, people who act on revenge are no longer socially acceptable. These people who act on revenge often commit mortal sins and heavy crimes and are set to life in prison. Hamlet is the only person to blame for his death because of his worldview. “A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.” (Shakespeare 3.3 76-78) At this point, Hamlet’s worldview is completely based on getting revenge for his father. There is nothing more important in life at the time. Hamlet has just killed Polonius mistaking him as Claudius. Moments later Hamlet is face to face with Claudius, but chooses not to kill him because he wants the worst for him. Hamlet says “ I, his sole son, do this same villain send to

In the beginning of Hamlet, the character Hamlet meets his father’s ghost who passes on to him the knowledge of his death. Hamlet learns that his uncle Claudius poisoned his father in order to take the throne and the Queen as his wife. After his father is done telling him, he decides he needs to avenge his father and take Claudius’s life. The fact that Hamlet is willing to commit a deadly sin in the eyes of Christ for his dad, reveals the son’s loyalty to his father. Not only is Hamlet faced with the situation of avengement, but

Hamlet written by William Shakespeare illustrates the thoughts and feelings of the main character Hamlet as he tries to avenge the death of his father, King Hamlet. The death of Hamlet’s father first starts as an accidental death, but the ghost of King Hamlet who is still in purgation tells Hamlet that it was not accidental. The ghost/King Hamlet tells his son, Hamlet, that he was actually murdered by his brother Claudius by the use of poison. After finding out the truth about his father’s death, Hamlet is given three injunctions by the ghost/his father in order to avenge his death, these include: remove the incest from the crown, leave your mother to god and her own guilt, and do not taint your mind. As the play progresses, Hamlet does his

"…Hamlet, thou art slain…The treacherous instrument is in thy, unbated and envenomed…" Hamlet does indeed die as a result of wounds inflicted by Laertes, but it is the poisoned tipped sword that causes the demise of Laertes as well. King Hamlet ruled Denmark and was the father of Hamlet. He had been slain by Claudius, his brother, who had since laid claim to the throne. While Hamlet mourned, he encountered the ghost of his father, who made him aware that his death had in fact been murder, and the guilt lay squarely on the shoulders of Denmark’s new King. "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown." Astonished, Hamlet swore vengeance for his father’s death. His efforts to prove his uncle’s guilt are hindered by his indecisiveness until he finally kills Claudius, while he himself is dying of poisoned wounds caused him by Laertes in their duel. "The point envenomed too! Then venom, to thy work…Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink off this potion,-is thy union here? Follow my mother." This left the Claudius dead, and King Hamlet’s death avenged, but at a grave cost to Hamlet. It is the lack of thought used in exacting their revenge which led to the deaths of both Laertes and Hamlet. The plan Laertes devised with Claudius to kill Hamlet with the poisoned tipped sword would have been successful, had they thought that the sword might be used against them, and panned

To Ophelia, whom he had formerly lovingly courted, he brusquely states “I loved you not” (3.1, 129) and deeply offends her with his brutish behavior and lurid sexual puns. Heartbroken, Ophelia becomes insane and eventually drowns herself in a brook. His fantasies of revenge also become more sinister as he cruelly resolves to kill Claudius “when he is drunk asleep, or in his rage” (3.3, 93) in order to insure that his step-father cannot confess his for his sins and therefore goes to hell. Worst of all, Hamlet murders innocent people without regret. He sends his former best friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths through forging Claudius’s seal with the orders that they are to be killed immediately upon arrival. He does not display any regret for this and only states, “They are not near my conscience” (5.2.65) Similarly, in a fit of madness and rage, he storms into his mother’s bedroom, mercilessly kills Polonius who is in hiding and only references what he has done by brieifly addressing Polonius’s corpse, “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.” (3.4, 38) Then, he proceeds to verbally assault his mother who has just witnessed his horrible deed to the point where she exclaims “these words like daggers enter my ears” (3.4, 108) and observes that Hamlet is truly “mad” (3.4, 121) The great tragedy of the play is that Hamlet’s passion for revenge creates an insanity that makes him stray so far from his moral values and leads to so much unnecessary

After Hamlets father’s death, he was allocated with a responsibility of killing his father’s murderer at a very young age that emanates to him as a shock. Before his father’s death hamlet was just a normal child who was far away from the evil side of the world; his own nature causes great conflict within him. To illustrate where on one hand Hamlets desired to kill Claudius the other he was continuously trying to find a way to get purge from the responsibility but his love and loyalty towards his father was coming in-between his own values. Hamlet said to Horatio and Marcellus that “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.”(1.5.8) this elucidates that hamlet never wanted to take the responsibility of killing

Hamlet’s irrational behavior of thirsting for revenge causes those around him to die. When Polonius is stabbed by Hamlet because of Hamlet’s insane craving for revenge on Claudius, whom he thought he was stabbing, “Hamlet, acting blindly through impulse, slays the wrong one; the result is — guilt. This warning, therefore,

The main character Hamlet, has his focus set on avenging his father’s death in the play Hamlet and this sight has affected him by murdering the innocent and old father, Polonius, by accident. In act 1, Hamlet is talking to the ghost of his father who was murdered and says revenge his “foul and most unnatural murder”and in response Hamlet says that he has “sworn’t” (I.v.31-119). As Hamlet says “sworn’t”, he means that he swears that he will avenge his father’s death. By saying this, he shows that his primary focus in the play is to avenge his father’s death and based on that, his actions will reflect his promises he had made. Later in the play in act 3, Hamlet thinks he sees Claudius and kills the man and as he does so, he says that Claudius

Hamlet, full of tragedy and anger, trying to cope with his father’s death, suffers the consequences in the end. Wrath enveloped his mind and soul controlling his feelings toward his mother and uncle blaming his mother for his father’s death and angry with his uncle Claudius after finding out his uncle murdered his father. Wrath one of the seven deadly sins is held most responsible in this tragic story. Hamlet murdered innocent people out of anger believing it would be Claudius instead of discussing with his mother rationally.

Throughout the play Hamlet has one major motif and its to avenge his father’s death. An example can be seen in the following, “O vengeance! Why , what as ass am I! This is most brave, that I, the son of a dear father murder'd prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words and fall-a-cursing like a very drab.”Although Hamlet can be seen as a “serial killer”, as the sympathetic protagonist in a revenge play, Hamlet’s killings take place in a favourable circumstances: when Hamlet kill polonius in anger and haste, he doesn’t do in a cold blooded way and it also shows a case of mistaken identity because Hamlet believed that it was King Claudius. Despite Hamlet’s mistake he’s still motivated to avenge his father’s death.

Hamlet’s revenge was so strong that he accidentally killed Polonius while confronting his mother about her affair with his uncle. Hamlet really never got his revenge until the day of his set up fencing match with Laertes. where Laertes sword is poisoned and Hamlet drink as well which was being held by his uncle Claudius. In a split second his mother Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned drink and hamlet gets stabbed by the poisoned blade. Hamlet proceeds with the fight stabbing Laertes with his own sword, at this moment Gertrude dies.

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet explores empirical questions searching for revenge and truth amongst the lies as he comes to grips with his father’s death. In the end, Hamlet proves to be an exceptionally existential character. In all of the chaos within the castle, Hamlet, a university student arrives back home and finds out that his father, the king of Denmark, died of foul play. The Ghost of Hamlet’s father visits him and tells him the story of his unfortunate demise. There, it was revealed that Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius is the murderer. Throughout the rest of the play, Hamlet seeks to avenge his father’s death. However, he is so enraged and consumed with sorrow that it builds up to this extreme and almost deranged madman. Hamlet makes it clear that he is a experiencing a sign of grief. “For they are the actions that a man might play, but I have that within which passes show, these but the trappings and suits of woe” (I.ii.84-86). Most would say that Hamlet goes insane in the play and his grip on right and wrong gets thrown out the window. However, his unhinged way of thinking is actually a brilliant ploy to get everyone around him to pay no mind to the crazy person. It is such a crafty and witty trick that Hamlet is able to manipulate everyone around him to truly see Claudius -- a murderer and usurper.