Justified In Hamlet Research Paper

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Have you ever heard of a play called hamlet? The play hamlet is about revenge. In the play hamlet I think revenge is not justified because Claudius dies, hamlet dies, and Claudius killed hamlets farther.

My first reason why I think revenge is not justified because Claudius ends up dying at end of the story. Hamlet did end up killing Claudius but was it worth it? Claudius killed hamlet farther by pouring poison into hamlets farther ear. Claudius killed hamlets mother also at end of the story by her drinking poison out of a cup. Claudius was a very clever charter on how he messed with hamlets mind in the story.hamlet did kill Claudius by stabbing him with the poison dagger and make him drink the poison after he saw his mother die. next I will

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