Prince Hamlet begins the story as a good man, with good intentions but when his uncle Claudius begins to come around and court Hamlet’s mother, Claudius's begins to rub off on Hamlet. Claudius is an evil man who murdered King Hamlet to take the thrown and like the black plague, his evilness begins to spread to others, such as Prince Hamlet. Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost, and promises him that he will focus on nothing but his revenge on his uncle and his plan to leave his mother with heaps of guilt. “I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copies there; And thy commandment all alone shall live, Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix’d with baser matter….” (1.5.99-109). Hamlet has promised to ignore everything except the
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The people have begun to think Hamlet is going mad, which he did. Hamlet’s revenge has ruined him. Hamlet talks about how even the best of people can be down turned by their ambition, and his turned him into a monster. “My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth." (4.4.65) He said that if his thoughts were about anything other than murder, that he will consider them worthless. Hamlet falls victim to his uncle’s wicked schemes, the anger and unforgivingness of Hamlet drives him crazy. It even leads to him carelessly murdering Polonius. Hamlet let’s his uncle get the better of him, he even goes so far to worry more about his political stand than anything else. “Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon—He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, Popp'd in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage—is't not perfect conscience To quit him with this arm? And is 't not to be damned To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?”(5.2.70-75). Hamlet is more worried about his throne than his father's revenge at this
The people have begun to think Hamlet is going mad, which he did. Hamlet’s revenge has ruined him. Hamlet talks about how even the best of people can be down turned by their ambition, and his turned him into a monster. “My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth." (4.4.65) He said that if his thoughts were about anything other than murder, that he will consider them worthless. Hamlet falls victim to his uncle’s wicked schemes, the anger and unforgivingness of Hamlet drives him crazy. It even leads to him carelessly murdering Polonius. Hamlet let’s his uncle get the better of him, he even goes so far to worry more about his political stand than anything else. “Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon—He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, Popp'd in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage—is't not perfect conscience To quit him with this arm? And is 't not to be damned To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?”(5.2.70-75). Hamlet is more worried about his throne than his father's revenge at this