What Is Right And Wrong In Hamlet

Morality is a subjective set of standards that a society uses to determine what is “right” or “wrong.” Due to the subjective nature of morality, it is easy to see how one’s own sense of right and wrong may change over time. Everyone develops their own standards for what is or isn’t acceptable based on their own experience. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a story of what happens when a person experiences events so traumatic that they weaken his sense of morality. The title character is surrounded by betrayal from his family and friends, and is driven to think and do things that he would not have even considered otherwise. The men in Hamlet’s life betray him. Hamlet says to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern “You were sent for and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to color: I know the good king and queen have sent for you.” (2.2.25) Here he has caught Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in an act of betrayal. This hurts Hamlet. He shows compromised morals when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths “I had my father’s signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. Folded the writ up in form of th’ other, Subscribed it, gave ‘t th’ impression, placed it safely, The changeling never known. Now, the next day was our sea fight, and what to this was sequent Thou know’st already.” (5.2.55) This shows Hamlet getting revenge for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s betrayal. This is not morally right, because the crime did …show more content…
Any man, save for a man of inhuman integrity, will fill the mold that his environment creates for him. It just depends if the man has higher or lower viscosity. “Hamlet” is important because it shows the audience how true it is that we are a product of our environment, by showing first-hand what happens when you are surrounded by betrayal and