Shakespeare's play, “Hamlet” is a revenge tragedy that is driven by this protagonist who
spends his entire time actually contemplating how to take out his revenge rather than extracting
this project. His inability to take revenge rashly leads to the murder of unnecessary characters:
those being Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Gertrude, even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Not only
this, he enables his own driven insanity to torture himself. Although he does eventually kill
Claudius, he is unsatisfied with his plan because of his delayed action.
The appearance of the ghost-or hallucination- was a very significant part to inform about
the wickedness of Claudius, leading to Hamlet’s theme of revenge in this tragedy. His strong
tendencies to kill Claudius surfaced once the ghost appeared and spoke to him of the truth. “ And
so i am revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, i his sole son,
this same villain send to heaven”. ( Act 3, Scene 3). Hamlet believed he was the only one to do it
and so it created some sort of determination inside of him to take revenge. It was this then that us
as readers thought he was truly going to be rash, but he was not. His mind ended up drifting
multiple ways-he lost himself.
His psychological conflicts strikingly were what led to this revenge. If it were not for his
mental health, he probably would have been less delayed in his reaction to the ghost and
Claudius would have died sooner-leading to less deaths overall. Hamlet was truly having
problems of indecision-meaning he thought everything over so critically, so meticulously that he
ended up killing Claudius in such an indirect way rather than a direct one. His alertness to the
task of killing Claudius led to his moral conflict within himself-leading to this soliloquy of
whether he should kill himself or not, or “To be or not to be” (Act 3 scene 1). His own overtake
of thoughts from his uncle to his mother led to his ...
