Importance Of Loyalty In Hamlet

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“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.” David A. Bednar. A home is the only safe zone some children have, when it is not an enjoyable zone it just destroys what once was there. This essay will examine loyalty to others as well as oneself loyalty revealing the significance of staying devoted, “King Hamlet ghost appears”, and “kings’ death”, also “prepare a charlie”. “Let us impart what we have seen tonight unto young Hamlet”, Horatio knows that young Hamlet would get a kick out of what they have witnessed out by the gate. Horatio is known to tell the truth and only the truth when it …show more content…
Claudius is all about maintaining his own power, he is also a corrupt politician who can very well manipulate others. Claudius is very loyal to himself. Claudius seemed to have had strategized the killing of his king/brother Hamlet, and takeover as king of Denmark. In the process he also married the widow Gertrude to help him insure the throne snatching it away from Hamlet after the kings’ death. Once Claudius is aware that Hamlet killed Polonius, he was afraid that it could have been him in danger. Having the conscious of killing his brother eats him away, he worries about what he has to do to get rid of Hamlet this way he feels safe. When sending Hamlet away, he passes down the information to Laertes of what occurred to his father, and teams up with Claudius to come up with an ideal plan to kill …show more content…
All is not well. I doubt some foul play”. Hamlet suspects that his father was not killed by a natural cause, but by something else. When Horatio tells Hamlet that he has seen the ghost of king Hamlet, he is ecstatic to hear such news and wants to see it for himself. The moment that Hamlet meets with the ghost of his deceased father, he is told the horrific event that lead to his death and it was no accident. King Hamlet explains to Hamlet that Claudius was the one who poisoned him during his afternoon sleep. Hamlet is told that he needs to revenge his death at all cost. Hamlets loyalty to his father is shown after he promises that he will kill his father’s murderer. Now knowing the truth Hamlet sets out to prove that his father was murdered by his uncle Claudius he does not want to act just yet, he begins by requesting the players to act out The Murder of Gonzaga, this play acts out a father being murdered and the loving wife remarrying the kings brother. As Claudius becomes disturbed with the play, Hamlet knows that he has his uncle right where he wants him to be. Hamlet acts irrational from time to time, especially when killing Polonius, he did not hesitate to look who was behind the curtain. Hamlet disregards all threats being done to Denmark national security, this creates his own carelessness. We than see that Hamlet kills Claudius the exact same way that Laertes had planned it, by giving him the poisoned drink. Hamlet being the faithful

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