How Does Hamlet Respond To Injustice

Hamlet Conclusion
Hunter Toelle
The word injustice is often used in the process of explaining a persons behaviours or actions when dealing with a situation in which they have been wronged. But if a person does not have self-respect for them selves then who knows how they will respond to the injustice that they have been faced with. Self respect is essential to every human being. When a person is born, throughout their life they develop a certain level of self-respect. Self-Respect comes from within a person, it cannot be taught. If a person lacks self-respect they are unable to make rash decisions for themselves to be able to survive in this world. When responding to injustice, a person’s self respect determines how one responds. Being prejudice is often a concern people face when trying to rectify irrational or hurtful behaviour. People try to validate their actions based on previous wrongs committed. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare argues that when faced with injustice, one’s response and actions directly correlate with the amount of self worth and self-respect one possesses. The concept that it most prominent, is the idea of injustice and how the actions taken by the protagonist, Hamlet, carries out as a

All lives end in tragedy. Ophelia has little self respect, lost sight in herself when control was taken away from her. Hamlet on the other hand, was able to control hi emotions and carry out his plan of being crazy while plotting revenge at the same time. These differences in the actions of character reflect the levels of self-respect and self-reliance. At certain times throughout the play Hamlet is undecided, “To be or not to be?” It reflects Hamlet’s inner struggle between life and death. Having dealt with many injustices, Hamlets strong self-reliance and self-confidence allowed him to die fighting to return Denmark into what it once