The ghost informed Hamlet that he had been killed by Sir King Claudius and that Claudius was, in fact, Hamlet's uncle. From there, the ghost only asked for one thing and one thing only, and all the deceased king requested was revenge from his son. Taking in all this information, wanting to avenge his father's death, and wanting to do as his father asks causes Hamlet to do many crazy things, including pretending to have lost his sanity. This causes many deaths in the story during Hamlet's journey to revenge. One of which was Polonious, who was stabbed by Hamlet during Hamlets rant to his mother.
The play’s main protagonist Hamlet lets his grief over his father’s murder fuel his thirst for revenge, Ophelia lets the grief over the murder of her father Polonius drive her to apparent suicide, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes is pushed to conspire with Claudius to kill Hamlet as a result of his grief. Grief might as well be its own character in Hamlet because if it was it would always be center stage. The grief present in Hamlet comes in many different shapes and forms. Even for life today, until people learn how to deal with grief it will become an inherent part of a person’s character. It is interesting to note how Shakespeare portrays his male and female characters ability to handle grief.
That monster vows revenge on his creator after being rejected from society. An autobiographical criticism of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein reveals striking parallels between the author and her misunderstood and alienated main characters. Throughout life, when faced with a loss, most people react negatively and dwell on the tragic event. Mary Shelley, however, chose to express her pain by mirroring her own emotions through her characters. By the time her novel was published in 1818, Mary had already lost three of her four children and before she started writing Frankenstein, her illegitimate daughter with Percy Shelley died in infancy.
Ophelia drowned in the river, which causes Laertes to flee the room, overcome with grief. With the deaths of his only beloved family members, Laertes is in a rage and is overcome with grief and tragedy. Now that he knows Hamlet killed his father, he also blames Hamlet for driving Ophelia insane, which leads her to her death. So, he is probably on a bloody rampage, wanting to kill Hamlet in an instant. Everyone pities Laertes as his father and sister die; however Claudius uses this as an advantage to have Laertes kill Hamlet.
Soon after, the young prince is visited by a ghost that resembled the appearance of his dead past father. To increase confusion on Hamlet’s situation even more, the ghost gives details about the truth of King Hamlet’s death; the King was murdered by Claudius while asleep. Because of this and other similar factors, like betrayal, Hamlet began to fall down into a sense of insanity. Throughout William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, indication of Prince Hamlet’s true madness is seen in his feelings of abandonment and betrayal from the relationships he has with his family and friends, the unstable emotions and thoughts of avenging his father’s “unnatural” murder, and the unbelievable appearance and meeting of the presumably ghost of former king of Denmark Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet. The character of Hamlet has
Roderick’s behavior is insane and the narrator tries to bring him back to normal by reading him poems by Sir Launce lot Canning, Roderick is obsessed with these poems. Soon his sister dies by an unusual sickness and Roderick convinces the narrator to help him bury her body in a tomb underneath the mansion. While they were burying her, the narrator finds out that Roderick and Madeline were twins. Then the narrator to calm Roderick down read him the poem of Mad Trist, while he’s reading he starts hearing noises and Madeline appears at the door. They buried her alive and she wants vengeance by killing her brother.
He then blames two guards for the deed and becomes king of Scotland. Throughout the course of this play, Macbeth murders his best friend, Banquo, Macduffs entire family, and plots to kill more so he may keep his title. He becomes crazy with power and rants about the witches’ predictions daily. He becomes, in his eyes, immortal. On the other hand, his wife becomes so guilty for their deed she begins to sleepwalk and talk of their crime in the night.
Hamlet struggles with himself, he begins to act strangely. Just look at the scene with himself and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he acts strangely, he disrupts normal life in the palace, he too brings chaos to Ophelia's life too. She apparently loses her mind and ends her life with suicide. Polonius is killed. Laertes wants to avenge the death of his father by killing Hamlet.
In “Hamlet” byWilliam Shakespeare, Hamlet experienced acts of betrayal by individuals in his inner circle and reciprocated with acts of revenge which ultimately resulted in his his death. In the novel, Hamlet, the main character was portrayed as an intelligent university student who returned home to attend his father’s funeral. The first incident of betrayal Hamlet experienced occurred when Claudius, Hamlet's uncle/stepfather /King, killed his father and took control effectively robbing Hamlet of the crown and the chance to be King. Hamlet adored his father and was devastated when his mother, Gertrude, had an incestuous relationship with his uncle who she married so quickly after his father’s death that ..the funeral baked meats…did furnish forth the marriage tables. 1.2.184-185.
Munch’s father died when Munch was twenty-five, and soon after that another of Munch’s sisters, Laura, went mad and was committed to an insane asylum. Munch himself wrote in his diary that, “The angels of fear, sorrow and death stood by [his] side since the day [he] was born" (Fineman). Munch’s repeated confrontations with loss and madness made him chose to paint in a new and more psychologically motivated way. He wrote in his journal, “no [more] interiors with men reading and women knitting” (Hunter 47). Though one might argue that all painting carries with it an element of the psychological, because art is an expression of what the mind sees and not necessarily what the eye alone sees, but Munch’s overall intention was to paint emotion in a more deliberate sense.