Seeking Revenge In Hamlet Research Paper

The theme of revenge in Hamlet is something everyone seems to be seeking. One seeking is the most is Hamlet. Hamlet wants revenge so much that it starts to affect his relationship with his friends and his lover. The revenge that Hamlet wants comes at a great price, which the play suggests.

When Hamlet is introduced into the play he is still mourning the loss of his father who was the king. He is not seeking revenge yet. When he hears news of a ghost at night that looks like the king, he goes to look for himself. When he gets there the ghost tells him “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (Ham.1.5.25). After the ghost tells him of how he was killed Hamlet begins to seek revenge. This does not only start Hamlets quest for revenge, but

This start to affect his relationship with the people around him. Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are Hamlet’s childhood friends who are sent to spy on hamlet by his mother and uncle. Hamlet knows this, which makes him unable to trust people he once trusted without question. Every time Hamlet’s two friends would show up he would start being mad so that they would report back to the king and queen what was causing his madness. It got so bad that he thought that they knew of the plot to have Hamlet killed in England. Hamlet had them killed instead. The biggest relationship impact is with Ophelia and Lacrtes. His madness causes there downfall. Ophelia was a smart and good person before she was caught in Hamlets revenge plot. When her father told her to stop talking to Hamlet, her and Polonius thought that is was there fault that Hamlet went crazy. Later in the play Hamlet kills Polonius by

During the course of the play Hamlet gets people caught up in his plot to get revenge on his uncle. The first person to be caught in it is Polonius. Hamlet kills him thinking that he is his uncle. With Polonius death he ends up drags Ophelia and Lacrtes into it. Ophelia goes crazy and dies and then Lacrtes want revenge himself. Even his childhood friends get trapped in the plot. When the king sends them to England with a note to kill Hamlet, Hamlets has them killed instead. At the end of the play his plot gets his own mother killed. Lacrtes in his own quest for revenge is killed along with him succeeding along with Hamlet. Hamlet finally kills his uncle, but at a cost. Everybody close to him dies including Hamlet himself. The scene gives off the impression that, when seeking revenge the person most dig one grave for the person they are going to kill and one for themselves because that person will ether die or lose a part of