Hamlet stabs the king and Laertes remarks, “He is justly serv’d” (5.2.294). Accordingly, Hamlet must also receive justice as well for he unwittingly murdered Polonius. Laertes achieves this retribution for both Polonius and Ophelia, whose death was spurred by Polonius’. Nearing the end of their lives, Laertes beseeches Hamlet, “Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!” to ensure that the two may pass peacefully without lingering dissention. (5.2.295-297) Gertrude’s lustful pitfall is also resolved when she sacrifices herself for her son by taking the poisoned drink.
When Creon learns that Antigone has buried her brother, he becomes furious and sentences Antigone to death despite his son’s and Antigone’s fiancé pleading, as well as a warning from the prophet. But as the prophet for-told, the gods are on Antigone’s side and for Creon’s crime he loses his only son, Haemon and his wife. The begging of the play, Antigone has her sister, Isemen outside the city gates. Antigone is trying to get Ismene to help her bury their brother, Polyncies. But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon.
Revenge is a hateful action performed throughout the history of mankind. It was written in ancient Babylonian laws, “an eye for an eye and a hand for a hand”, hence the record of the never ending cycle of revenge. Many Shakespearean plays are tragedies displayed through different themes and motifs, for example, “Romeo and Juliet” display tragedy through the separation of star-crossed lovers. The Shakespearean play “Hamlet” is a classic depiction of a tragedy through the theme of revenge. This main theme of revenge is displayed through Hamlet’s revenge on Claudius for the murder of Hamlet’s father, Hamlet’s revenge on his mother Gertrude for remarrying the late King Hamlet’s murderer and Laertes’ attempted revenge on Hamlet for his accidental killing of Polonius.
He continues, “it us befitted/To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe” (I.2.2-4), which prompts the city to grieve for the late king. Claudius never mentions his own feelings about the king’s death, but expects everyone else to mourn. He then goes on to talk about his marriage to Gertrude, as if his self-interested act of taking the dead king’s wife for his queen somehow compensates for his death. Claudius’ strange behavior is a hint that something is not the way it appears. It suggests that he is putting on a disguise, which is later confirmed when it is revealed that he is the one who murdered the king.
Hamlets anger, which stems from his mother marrying Claudius, bears him serious thoughts of suicide. This results in an attempt at a religious and moral sin which shows a weakness in his character. Hamlet shows some moral sense when he decides not to kill himself due to religious beliefs, which is a paradox that leads to Hamlet’s downfall. His statement “thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain” (I.V.102-103) establishes his tragic decision to let nothing stand in the way of his vowed revenge assuring the death of Claudius, a longer life span and the immunity of punishment towards his mother. As act III begins, the reader sees Claudius’s plot against Hamlet progress.
By the end of the play Oedipus does admit to Thebes that because of his choices, he led himself to his fate. “now loathed by the gods, son of the mother I defiled coupling in my fathers bed, spawning lives in the loins that spawned my wretched life. / It’s mine alone, my destiny- I am Oedipus. So even though he killed his father and married his mother, which he believes was destiny, Oedipus admits what he has done and he takes responsibility for following through with it,
Elliot Campos Nielsen A.P. English 14 October 2011 Oedipus: Guilty? I'll be the Judge of ThatIn the tragedy of Oedipus the King, it is Oedipus who is responsible for the fulfillment of his own catastrophic fate. In the pattern of a tragic play, it is by his own flaws that he creates a ripple, disrupting his life and setting the misfortunes into motion that ultimately result in his declension. In his own hands is the guilt of; the death of his wife, his children being cast from their home, and the eventual blinding of himself.
This sadness Hamlet feels, makes him question his own life in his famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy. The murder of Claudius is his ultimate revenge, but before doing so Hamlet must deal with the incestuous activity that occurred between his mother and his uncle. Hamlets plot for revenge on Claudius is furthered as he realizes that after the death of his father, King Hamlet, Claudius and his mother quickly got married. Hamlet is so frustrated with his mother and her actions, that he yells, “frailty thy name is woman!” (Shakespeare Act I scene II). His hate for women is furthered as seen in his treatment toward Ophelia later on during the play.
She is unknowingly used in the plot against Hamlet by her father and brother who are supposed to protect her but instead they use her and therefore open a way for Hamlets hate and disappointment to direct at her.To understand Hamlets treatment of Ophelia its essential to look at Hamlets hatred towards his mother. Because of his mother’s marriage to his uncle, Hamlet is scarred for life in his
Hamlet - Shakespeare- Personal view (Revenge) Revenge is a theme that comes out very strongly in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It portrays the story as a tragedy. Prince Hamlet learns of the man responsible for his father’s death and decides, by all means, to avenge his father’s death by taking the life of his father’s killer. This is in contrast to Christian teachings against revenge and Hamlet, being religious, should have known better. The ghost of King Hamlet can be thought of as the conscience of the mind which tells us to do the rational thing rather than the right thing.