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Hamlet Dek Revenge In Hamlet

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William Shakespeare “hamlet is a poem illustrating a prince seeking revenge over his father tragic death. Hamlet the prince is left clueless who killed his father until some night watcher gave him some news about a ghost that looked like his dead father. Hamlet decides to go see the ghost for himself and is shocked what the ghost has said to him. The murder of his father was no accident for a snake but instead hamlet father was murder from his uncle, Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Hamlet becomes angry at Claudius for killing his father and is also angry at his mother, Gertrude, for betraying his and marrying Claudius. Hamlet begins to act insane because he wants to distract the people around him so he can fulfill his revenge of the murder of his father.
In the poem Hamlet begins to have a insane at attitude when tries to seek revenge. At first hamlet begins to act that he is crazy but it slow begin to affect him. A first example is when hamlet begins to have a couple of suicidal thought. Shakespeare writes;
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ‘ gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!” (Shakespeare, 1529).
In these line hamlet has a thought of committing suicide but realizes he would disobey Gods command. According to an article by Andrew he says; “Far from evincing an acceptance of death or a belief in its religious purpose, Hamlet continues instead to view life and death as

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