The play Hamlet has a relationship with the theme of responsibility. Three characters that show the good or bad of responsibility were Hamlet, Horatio, and Claudius. Hamlet had a responsibility to avenge his father’s death. Horatio’s responsibility was to support Hamlet and be on Hamlet’s side when needed, but Claudius was supposed to be a king and to be a good uncle, but murdered his brother just to become king and did not the show the responsibility that expected from him. Hamlet was distraught when his father was murdered. At first he did know who it was, but then he found out it was Claudius. He found that his responsibility was to avenge his father. His responsibility was to kill Claudius. He was doing something bad like murder to be
