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Hamlet
Hamlet can simply be described as a man in the grip of insanity as he was ambitious, but couldn’t relish what was going on in his prosperous and abnormal family. Who would think that a prince of Denmark could have a hard time when he has everything at his fingertips? Hamlet wasn’t an ordinary prince as we come to find out in the beginning of the play as we learn that his father passed away. The unbelievable burden of having to deal with the death of a parent is not all Hamlet had to deal with, also on his mind was his whore of a mother Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, who marries Hamlet’s own uncle Claudius.
The feelings Hamlet had towards his uncle Claudius has drastically changed since his mother and he became married. Hamlet had nothing, but complete disgust for his whorish mother and uncontrollable hatred for his uncle. Hamlet had a hard enough time dealing with the death of his father now he is in the middle of a dysfunctional family that is about to erupt as Hamlet becomes more upset with the ensuing events.
This was just the beginning for the brewing tension between the noble family as a ghost appears who is reminiscent of Hamlet’s father. The ghost had valuable information that would push Hamlet to his melting point. The ghost revealed to Hamlet that Claudius was the reason for his father’s death and that Claudius murdered him to take advantage of what he had. “But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O vengeance! Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon 't, foh! About, my brain.—Hum, I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very...