Why Is Hamlet Evil

In the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, the young prince Hamlet is looked upon from many perspectives to be evil. Hamlet does kill, and cost many people there lives through his outrageous plan of restoring his country and honoring his dead father. Hamlet never committed any crimes or harmed anyone in his country, before he was told by his ghostly father to avenge his killer. The young prince is an admirable man for giving everything up including his own life, to retaliate against his father’s killer. Hamlet’s heart and quench for doing right causes him to commit these acts of wrong doing. He will do anything in order to honor his beloved father and do the best possible for his people. Hamlet can be defended because no matter …show more content…
Hamlet is told of the seeing of his father’s ghost, he must at once see it for himself to truly believe the rumor. In shock not believing his own eyes, young hamlet indeed sees the ghost of his father and speaks with him. The now dead king, tells Hamlet of how he was poisoned by Claudius. In Reta A. Terry’s article, “Vows to the Blackest Devil” Terry states, “He is a man of honor, a noble man, and now that the vow is spoken he has no choice but to carry it through” (Terry 1074). This supports the idea that Hamlet is indeed and man of honor and has no other option than doing what the ghost has told him to do. At this point after the ghost has spoken, Hamlet takes everything to heart and starts planning revenge against his uncle Claudius, whom is now king and married to his mother. Hamlet now doesn’t care about anything or anyone in his way of avenging his father’s killer. Hamlet is a moral man and shows this by doing what is right to honor his dead father. With a strong mind and spirit, even after the ghost speaks to Hamlet, he still refrains from acting with anger and outrage towards