What is Justice ? You may think you know, but Justice has many meanings in society. Everyone can have their own personal definition or meanings to justice. In my opinion, justice is when there is equal fairness in a situation in which there wasn’t before. Another way I look at justice is avenging yourself or avenging someone when you felt someone has been doing wrong towards you or someone else. In the play “Hamlet” by Shakespeare and the story “Killings” by Andre Dubus, we will be looking at justice from different viewpoints and what made the people in these stories seek justice.
Hamlets Justice
In Hamlets point of view, justice was returning the favor for someone who has deceived him. He was pursuing justice for the murder of his father …show more content…
Which makes me wonder if the fact that Claudius did it causes hamlet to hesitate on getting revenge right away because Claudius is now the new king. The change in the way, in which hamlet seeks justice is in Act III , Scene III. He says “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, And now I'll do 't. [He draws his sword] And so he goes to heaven, And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.” This quote shows that Hamlet is really reluctant to kill Claudius , he is finding excuses to not kill him every chance he gets. He doesn’t kill Claudius this time because he thinks that he is praying and asking for forgiveness of his sins, and if he kills him after he asks for forgiveness then Claudius will go to heaven. Hamlet wants Claudius to suffer in hell for what he has done. In reality, if Hamlet was really after Claudius for his father he would've killed Claudius the first chance he got and wouldn't have even thought about heaven or hell until after he had killed him. The transition into Hamlet's revenge turning personal happened in Act V Scene II , Page 15 when he said “The point envenomed …show more content…
Another reason why he didn't get justice was because when he finally had caught Claudius off guard , He was on his knees and Hamlet though that he was praying for forgiveness for his sins. Hamlet thought that if he killed Claudius right then and there he would have went to heaven instead of hell where he wanted him to go for killing his father. Hamlet did not get justice because he procrastinated and really didn't have a well thought out plan to follow through
Hamlets Justice
In Hamlets point of view, justice was returning the favor for someone who has deceived him. He was pursuing justice for the murder of his father …show more content…
Which makes me wonder if the fact that Claudius did it causes hamlet to hesitate on getting revenge right away because Claudius is now the new king. The change in the way, in which hamlet seeks justice is in Act III , Scene III. He says “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, And now I'll do 't. [He draws his sword] And so he goes to heaven, And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.” This quote shows that Hamlet is really reluctant to kill Claudius , he is finding excuses to not kill him every chance he gets. He doesn’t kill Claudius this time because he thinks that he is praying and asking for forgiveness of his sins, and if he kills him after he asks for forgiveness then Claudius will go to heaven. Hamlet wants Claudius to suffer in hell for what he has done. In reality, if Hamlet was really after Claudius for his father he would've killed Claudius the first chance he got and wouldn't have even thought about heaven or hell until after he had killed him. The transition into Hamlet's revenge turning personal happened in Act V Scene II , Page 15 when he said “The point envenomed …show more content…
Another reason why he didn't get justice was because when he finally had caught Claudius off guard , He was on his knees and Hamlet though that he was praying for forgiveness for his sins. Hamlet thought that if he killed Claudius right then and there he would have went to heaven instead of hell where he wanted him to go for killing his father. Hamlet did not get justice because he procrastinated and really didn't have a well thought out plan to follow through