Violence In Hamlet

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, a young man by the name of Hamlet was forced into understanding that revenge and anticipation would soon become two major life conflicts he would have to overcome. Having been written in London, England back in the early seventeenth century, this tragedy mainly focuses on Hamlet’s struggles on deciding whether he can trust this ghost that asks him to seek revenge on his father's death or whether killing the aggressor, in this case King Claudius, is the appropriate thing to do. In addition to this, throughout the text we are soon able to realize that the two men never really liked each other after considering the fact that Claudius married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, after Hamlet’s father’s mysterious death. Nevertheless Hamlet was nothing but a appreciated and straightforward gentleman in the kingdom. As for King Claudius, he was a well-rounded and respected King for his power. But having that said the real question would be what if we could write this tragedy during a different time ? Or place ? Or perhaps another language ? Or for a different type of audience would it change ? The truth is there are various ways in …show more content…
Say for example, the author, in this case Shakespeare would have written this book specifically for kids. The book would obviously change in a variety of ways, one being that there would have to be a limited amount of violence, as well as romance throughout the book. For example, Hamlet’s violent way of killing Claudius at the end of the book would have to be reduce to the point where instead of Hamlet stabbing him and forcing him to drink the poison till death, Hamlet throughout this part would have to simply kill Claudius in a less violent way like pushing him down a large staircase. As far as it goes for the romance Hamlet and Ophelia’s kissing and lovey dovey talk would probably have to be reduce as far as to them only being able holding