Lies, love, revenge- all were complexly raveled into a plot-line that has stood the tests of time for over 400 years. That plot-line belongs to Shakespeare’s tragic play Hamlet which is about Prince Hamlet, a man ordered by his father’s ghost to avenge his murder. Things become complicated when he discovers that his father’s murderer was none other than his newly pronounced uncle-king-step-father. At the end of the play, tragedy is presented full force when Hamlet finally kills the king: and also when his girlfriend, mother, girlfriend’s brother, and himself kill one another. This play focuses on many themes including the theme of forgiveness, a common theme many of Shakespeare’s plays (Matchett). In Hamlet, William Shakespeare used repetition to convey the theme of forgiveness through the various conflicts between Laertes, Hamlet, Gertrude, and Claudius.
The repeating pattern of forgiveness is established my Queen Gertrude and Claudius. In the beginning …show more content…
The Ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius murdered King Hamlet. Out of obedience, Hamlet agrees to avenge his father’s death. Although Hamlet intends to follow the ghost’s orders, Hamlet gradually becomes strange and grows mad because of it. The primary goal throughout this play is for Hamlet to achieve revenge for his father’s death. However, based on his destructive behavior, this task causes his mental and moral state to wane. First, to Ophelia who he claims that he once loved, he grossly and sexually insults her. Then, to his own mother, he is disrespectful and incoherent at times. Finally, his vexation reaches a high when he unintentionally kills Polonius. His buildup of internally conflicting madness give proof that his pursuits to avenge his father were causing unhealthy behavior and forgiveness would have prevented it
The repeating pattern of forgiveness is established my Queen Gertrude and Claudius. In the beginning …show more content…
The Ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius murdered King Hamlet. Out of obedience, Hamlet agrees to avenge his father’s death. Although Hamlet intends to follow the ghost’s orders, Hamlet gradually becomes strange and grows mad because of it. The primary goal throughout this play is for Hamlet to achieve revenge for his father’s death. However, based on his destructive behavior, this task causes his mental and moral state to wane. First, to Ophelia who he claims that he once loved, he grossly and sexually insults her. Then, to his own mother, he is disrespectful and incoherent at times. Finally, his vexation reaches a high when he unintentionally kills Polonius. His buildup of internally conflicting madness give proof that his pursuits to avenge his father were causing unhealthy behavior and forgiveness would have prevented it