How Does Hamlet Change

Shakespeare is known for his tragedies that he writes about, and Hamlet is no exception. In Hamlet, Hamlet learns from the ghost of his father that his father is killed by his uncle who is now the king and his stepdad. This leads Hamlet into madness where he has relationship issues with his girlfriend, Ophelia, who is the daughter of the king’s advisor, Polonius. Polonius is killed when Hamlet accidentally stabs him trying to kill Claudius. All of this happens due to Hamlet going mad over the grief of his father’s death and the incestous marriage of his mother to his uncle, leading him to become a blood thirsty monster.

The play begins with Hamlet learning about a ghost that lurks about the castle which prompts him to go find it with a knight, …show more content…
While Claudius is praying, Hamlet goes and talks with his mother but hears shuffling behind a curtain, he stabs it which kills Polonius who was behind the curtian. Before Hamlet stabbed Polonius, his mother had the upper hand in the argument because, as his mother, she believed that she the authority to tell him that offending Claudius was wrong, but after he killed Polonius with no hesitation, she becomes afraid of Hamlet. This causes their whole relationship to change. Hamlet killed a man who he was friends with for a long time with no regrets and calls him a rat. This leads his mother to believe that Hamlet is truly mad. Before Hamlet went mad, she was telling Claudius that Hamlet should not go to England for school but now she wants Hamlet to leave as soon as possible. Not only does his mother not love him, but once everybody learns that Hamlet murdered Polonius, they don’t want to speak with him anymore because they think he’s mad. One of the basic human needs is love and a sense of belonging which he doesn’t have due to not having any friends. This causes Hamlet’s decent into madness to worsen creating his new obsession with death. Whenever the incestous marriage is brought up, he uses imagery of diseases and rotting food or skin to describe it. Without anybody to help, nothing will stop Hamlet from killing …show more content…
Before going to England, Hamlet deliberately kills Rosencratnz and Guildenstern because they were working for Claudius. They were both childhood friends of Hamlet and he had no reason to hate them but because Hamlet was angry at Claudius he had them executed. Hamlet didn’t even feel bad for them because Hamlet decided that everybody working for Claudius needed to die. When Orsic, a messenger, told Hamlet that Laertes wanted to duel, Hamlet went to deliberately kill Laertes. This is seen by how Orsic contradicted himself by agreeing with Hamlet’s every point and was obviously lying about the king putting a bet on the duel. At the duel, the first round Hamlet won and Claudius said that Hamlet won. But Hamlet continued onto the second because Laertes wasn’t dead yet. When Hamlet killed Laertes with Laertes’ poisoned sword, he only had Claudius left. When Hamlet killed Claudius, Hamlet seemed happy. Hamlet poisons Claudius with Laretes’ sword and forces him to drink from the poisoned wine that Hamlet would’ve gotten if he won. Instead of just killing Claudius, Hamlet goes out of his way to kill Claudius with both of the poisons, Hamlet knows, would be a very painful