Cycle Of Revenge In Hamlet

Dial R for Revenge Revenge is a model embedded in our society since the earliest of times. It is a justice that evades the bounds of formal law and almost always undertaken responding to a grievance. To break revenge and its justice down to its simplest terms would be to illustrate the act as a cycle imposed with the result becoming an alliance with power. One character loses control, eventually taking this affair into their own hands, performing the act of revenge, which causes the one whom revenge is enacted upon to deem the desire for revenge contrary the revenger. It is a cycle that cultivates revenge until finally, the revenger is stopped. This is a very common theme throughout the great literary works of the world. Incidentally, some …show more content…
Hamlet realizing he is ever so close to proving the fallacies of his uncle, just not quite yet. This becomes a classic example where the element of revenge becomes more powerful than the aptitude of the characters involved in the plot. In the end Fortinbras is the only person able to act out his agenda and not complete the cycle till death. He can require the lands of his father’s that became lost. Yet, all this is achieved while not incorporating a cycle of violence, all exhausted after the deaths of Hamlet, Claudius and Laertes. An old saying exclaims that “Patience is a virtue.” none more was that an example than in this story. Revenge may seem as an easy way to accomplish fortune and power, or in this case the hubris that exacerbates an untimely death. When enacted impulsively the behavior of revenge can come back as an emotion that traps and haunts your very being and …show more content…
This story is in stark contrast to that of Hamlet. Here we are entwined with two tales of revenge held within the confines of this story. On one side we are impressed with the story of revenge in the form of suppression, and on the other side watch a story unfold of a woman not “as smart as she should be.” First comes out of the play the story of Mrs. Wright and the struggles she encounters in life with her husband. As it was a custom during this time period for the women to take a back seat in the marriage. While her husband, John, is held in high regards of the community we soon learn this might not be the case at home in this union. A couple of signs point to this conclusion, one the broken door, and this could be a classic stamp of great anger and outbursts. Another clue discovered in the pages of this play is the discovery of a dead canary. It is never confirmed, but can only be strongly implied that he was the one who broke the bird’s neck in another impulsive rage of anger. The canary could be seen as a metaphor for the caged animal Minnie Foster, who is herself trapped in a small cage of exile. The canary can also be a creature with a very pretty voice, just as Minnie once had in her life. Just as her voice was silenced it was also choked and strangled in the death of her husband John. The death of this little bird was the release of her freedom, also to locked away in