Is Hamlet A Hero Or Villain Essay

Hero or villain? Friend or foe? Many people have different views on Hamlet, but I personally would consider Hamlet as a hero in this situation. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the plot goes as Hamlet is instructed to return home for his father’s funeral. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his mother had been remarried to Hamlet’s uncle, his father’s brother. After discovering this, his father, came to him, as a ghost in spirit, and told him that he was actually murdered. Hamlet was next in line for the throne, after his father had died, but somehow Claudius, his uncle, was now the King.
In attempt to get revenge for his father, Hamlet kills Polonius, but as consequence for that, King Claudius exiles Hamlet to England. Where King Claudius had already arranged for a fight between Ophelia’s Brother Laertes and Hamlet. Hamlet then told Horatio how he planned to overcome Claudius’s scheme to have him murdered …show more content…
A tragic hero will evoke both our pity and our terror but never is completely good nor is the hero ever completely evil. To justify the tragic effect, the hero will appear better than we are, in the sense that he is of higher moral worth. The hero will have to suffer a decline from a state of being happy to one of being sad, brought about by his tragic flaw. Making the King confess took a lot of strategic planning and also with logical thinking. According to the portrayal of the ghost, Hamlet was faced with a supernatural conundrum, in which he had to decide whether the ghost was evil or sending a message from the dead. The ghost claimed to be Hamlet’s father and even revealed he had been murdered by his own brother, who had taken the crown from Hamlet’s father. After some thought, a chance arose for Hamlet to catch King Claudius showing a sign of regret for murdering his own brother, taking the crown from him, and also taking his wife at the same