Hamlet Essay On Revenge Analysis

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“It is mine to avenge, I will repay,” says The Holy Bible, Romans 12:19. Hamlet strongly disagrees with this concept. Instead he relies on revenge to bring him the satisfaction he needs to ease his mind of avenging his father's death, only for it to lead to destruction. Through consequences, action, in action and immortality.
Action remains a huge theme throughout the play. Hamlet's actions for revenge causes many complications, such as his action to love his father so much that all he will care about is getting revenge. In the beginning of the play, The Ghost confronts Hamlet and says that if he ever truly loved his father, he will, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder,” (Act 1 Scene 5). Hamlet promises to prove his love for his father and get revenge on the person who committed the crime. He spends the rest of his time on earth trying to figure out a way to get revenge, which he loses sight of everything that he has. While so focus on revenge,
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Hamlet is told to get revenge from his father’s ghost. In Act 1 Scene 4, The Ghost says, “I do not set my life in a pin’s fee, And for my soul-what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.” This stays saying that the ghost, of King Hamlet, won’t be able to rest peacefully until he has been relieved of his past sins. The Ghost died without being free from the guilt of his sins so he comes back to Hamlet to avenge him. Hamlet gets revenge for his father so that he can be relieved from his guilt and go on to heaven. In conclusion, Hamlet’s revenge caused many things that could have been resolved in a better way. His revenge caused his actions and inactions to not be his own, they were controlled by the want for revenge. Then because of those the consequences were big and unfixable. Even though all he wanted was to help his father. Hamlet gets his revenge but at the cost of his own life and the ones he

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