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Could Hamlet’s actions be considered justified? I don’t think Hamlets actions are justified because he takes forever to revenge his father’s death and a lot of innocent people had to die because he couldn’t kill his uncle that killed his father. He also could have killed his uncle while he was praying this would have solved everything if he did it then, because all the innocent people wouldn’t have died. In Hamlet the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears and tells Hamlet to revenge his death he said that his uncle Claudis killed him. In (Doc A) the ghost tells Hamlet to act fast and he told him not to blame his mother for any of it even though she is probably involved. It would have been justified if Hamlet did this but he didn’t he took a slow time and he hurt his mother in the process of trying to revenge his father’s death. In (Doc C) he goes into his mom’s room and antagonizes her for killing the king and marrying his brother within a month. (Doc C) he hears someone hiding behind the curtain while he is antagonizing his mother and he think his uncle is behind the curtain so he stabs him and kills him but he didn’t realize it was Polonius behind the curtain. (Doc C) the Hamlets father’s ghost appears and tells him not to attack his
(Doc D) Hamlet is yelling and screaming at her and this is how Hamlets action aren’t justified. (Doc C) Ophelia is also mad at Hamlet for killing her father and cause of that she ends of killing herself by drowning. So Hamlet instead of just killing his father he kills Ophelia and Polonius. His actions could have been justified because she knew they were spying on Hamlet she could have told his secretly that they were spying on him but she didn’t. I still don’t think he had to yell and scream at her and he also didn’t have to kill her father in the

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