Was Hamlet Trying To Get Revenge In Hamlet

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At the beginning of the play, Hamlet returns to Denmark, only to find out that his father was murdered and his mother married his uncle, King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius. A little later, Hamlet finds that his father’s ghost is still able to communicate with him and the ghost says, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”(1.5, 25) Here, he is trying to get hamlet to get revenge for him. Being his father, Hamlet would do anything for him, especially because he was murdered and betrayed by his mother and uncle. In Hamlet’s eyes, he was going to get revenge and justice for what claudius had done to his father, but the thing he didn’t know was that he was going to get many people killed in the process. After talking to his dad, Hamlet procrastinates

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