Picture what revenge,insanity or death means to you. Revenge means the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.Insanity the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. Insanity the state of being seriously mentally ill. Death action or fact of dying or being killed What do you think of when you see ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare. It all takes place in El senor Denmark till the end, till death. Royalty with so much imperfections.
People would say that Claudius was a good king but was he really? Old King Hamlet was the former king till he got murdered. In Hamlet it states “I like him not,nor stand it safe with us, To let his madness range. Therefore prepare …show more content…
In the book it states during the conversation between Old King Hamlet and Hamlet that “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder; murder most foul,as in the best it is,But this most foul, strange and unnatural.”(pg 57)(Hamlet). Old King Hamlet is encouraging Hamlet to kill Claudius for he is hes murder and should die cold as well and seek revenge for he is his murder. In hamlet it also states “ Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Hartio- a fellow of infinite jest,of most excellent fancy .He hath bore me on his back thousand times,and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your vibed now?your gambols? you're songs? you're flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning ? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my ladys{chamber} and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh at that.-Prithee, Hartio, tell me on thing.(pg 249)(Hamlet). The skull itself a physical reminder of death. After all of Hamlet's brooding and philosophical contemplation of mortality, Hamlet literally looks death directly in the face.(shmoop).In the story another example of death is stated “Here,thou incestuous,[murd’rous,] damned Dane, Drink off this potion.Is[thy union] here? {forces him to drink the poison}{king dies}(pg 281). Hamlet forces the King (Claudius)to drink the from the chalice that killed his mother, that contained the poison used to kill his father as well. Death was used as ending to people problem and life. It was normal to see it happen for the time period but nobody really suspected so death was also used as a way to keep silence