The Importance Of Trust In Hamlet

Trust is defined as the reliance on the integrity, strength, ability or surety of a person or thing. To break ones trust is to lose their confidence in the person or thing. Trust can be broken with a single, unreliable action and is often challenging and difficult to win back. In the case of the one whose trust was broken, it is a difficult, jarring and abrupt change of reality to discover the betrayal and loss of trust in someone who they once relied upon . In William Shakespeare 's play entitled Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet is unable to take swift revenge on his father 's murderer. This is due to the fact that Hamlet has become distrustful of the most important people in his life and so this sparks a question in those around him but also

His first words in the play is an aside saying "A little more than kin and less than kind" (Shakespeare. 1.2.64-65). Hamlet is already distrustful of those around him, shown in the way Shakespeare uses an aside. This displays a lack of trust and ability to speak his mind out loud. Due to the death of his father and the quick and untimely coronation of Claudius as the new king, Hamlet becomes hostile and distrustful of the people around him as people tell him to move forward and accept his father 's death, just as they have. While he believes his sorrow and mourning is genuine, Hamlet discloses to his mother that the other 's mourning is fake and only "seems"(1.2.83) real. Hamlet believes that their loyalty is fickle and unreliable, there by isolating himself and relying on his inner circle of friends and family to deal with his loss and to loss that support, would leave Hamlet

As a result of Hamlet 's isolation with other people, Hamlet is forced to analyse all his actions by himself, however, without verification Hamlet excuses and delays his revenge by overanalyzing his situation. In the end, Hamlet became isolated from society and those that were closest to him. By himself, Hamlet began to question himself further confusing himself and distracting him from his goal of revenge. Through the death of his father, hamlet lost trust in his people. Through the betrayal and remarrying of his mother, Hamlet lost trust in his mother and women, leading to his distrust in Ophelia. Through the murder of his father by Claudius, Hamlet lost trust in those associated with the King and thereby lost trust in his childhood friends. Medha Chaitanya once said "The pain of losing trust on someone whom you love is equal to the pain of killing yourself." Hamlet lost the trust of all his important people, distracting him from his goal and leading to his death. There must be some merit to Chaitanya 's words after