Revenge Vs JusticeMacbath Essay Research Paper Revenge

Revenge Vs Justice(Macbath) Essay, Research Paper

Revenge causes one to act blinding through anger, rather than through reason. It is a part of human nature that forces us to seek revenge against the person who has granted us with pain. But following the principle of an eye for eye, tooth for tooth , is not intelligent way to pursue justice. This is the same case in the play Hamlet written by Shakespeare, in the 16——–th century. In the play the two of the character s fathers are brutishly murdered. The first murder character is the king Hamlet who is supposed to be revenged by his son prince Hamlet to king Claudius. The second murder of Lord Polonius supposes to be revenge by his son Laertes. Both Prince Hamlet and Laertes go to seek revenge for the death of their fathers. The revenges lead to the death of the entire Royal family. Also Fortinbras, King of Norway, was killed by King Hamlet; slain by sword during the duel. So Prince of Norway, son of King Fortinbras seeks for revenge on Denmark of his father s death. Also revenge is improper and wrong way to punish someone for his fault. Their acts of emotion lead to the downfall of two, and the rise to power of one.

After the death of King Hamlet, King Claudius married late Hamlet s wife, Queen Gertrude. Prince Hamlet, son of King Hamlet has a meeting with the ghost of his death father king Hamlet. Ghost conveys to his son that his own brother Claudius has murdered him. The serpent that did sting thy father s life / Now wears his crown. (I, v, 39-40). His father s ghost informs Hamlet that he needs him to take revenge through the death of his brother Claudius.

The ghost also asks Hamlet to:

Let not the royal bed of the Denmark be

A couch for luxury and damned incest

But, howsoever thou pursuest this actd

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive

Against thy mother ought; leave her to heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge

To pick and sting her. (I, v, 84-89).

The ghost asks to take revenge without hurting his mother because she does not know any thing and she is a seeming-virtuous queen; (I, v, 47).

Hamlet already hates Claudius even before he met the ghost. His views about Claudius can be seen in the soliloquy, when Hamlet compares his father to King Claudius. So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr / My father s brother, but no more like my father (I, ii, 139-140). He also incenses his mother for marring Claudius almost immediately after the death of his father. The rejection of Ophelia and the marriage of his mother and the shocking news from the ghost make Prince Hamlet panics and make him upset. Hamlet first decides to act insane. Ophelia s father thinks that the ignorance of Ophelia causes Hamlet madness. Hamlet s mood changes constantly, when he speaks to the people. He says to Ophelia you jig, you amble, and you lisp and make your wantonness your ignorance (III, i, 145-146). But she still loves Hamlet. She keeps calm and polite. When she returns Hamlet s love token, Hamlet speaks with her very angrily Get thee a nunnery: Why would thou be a breeder of sinners. (III, i, 121). Hamlet is still waiting for the time to take revenge of his father s death, but he is confused and double minded about whether the ghost is really his father s spirit or a devil.

In his soliloquy he says:

The sprit I have seen

May be the devil: and the devil hath power

To assume a pleasing shape: yea, and, perhaps

Out of my weakness and my melancholy (II, ii, 596-599)

Hamlet makes a plan:

I have heard,

That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,

Have by the cunning of the scene

Been stuck so to the soul that presently

They have proclaim d their malefactions;

For the murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak

With most miraculous organ. I ll have these players

Play something like the murder of my father

Before mine uncle; I ll observe his look; (II, ii, 586-594).

Hamlet in this plan is planning to see the reaction of Claudius during the play, and if reacts unusually then he is definitely guilty of his crime.

During the play The Mouse-Trap is acted by the players, Hamlet observes Claudius emotions and he knows that Claudius is that adulterate beast, (I, v, 43) who killed his father. Hamlet s plan works, his uncle throws a fit and runs out the room. Later on, when Hamlet finds him, he is kneeling down praying, and Hamlet pulls out the sword and, is ready to kill Claudius. But all of a sudden, Hamlet changes his mind because, if he kills him while he is praying he will go to heaven and Hamlet wants him to go to hell. His soul may be as damn d and black as hell, where to it goes (III, iii, 95). So Hamlet postpones the execution of his uncle. After that Hamlet proceeds towards his mother s room. He speaks to his mother angrily and blames her for marring his uncle You are the queen, your husband s brother wife (III, iv, 16). During the conversation, the ghost appears. Hamlet talks with the ghost but queen Laertes can not see the ghost. So she gets more convinced that Hamlet is in madness. In the queen s room Hamlet performs the murder of Polonius accidentally in the thought of him being Claudius. Nay, I know not is it the king. (III, iv, 29).

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