Hamlet Revenge

McCullough et al further argue that one of the major causes of mental disorder is “the revenge” since it is highly attached to trauma, very severe violence, and tremendous post-trauma effects. Hamlet is among the influential protagonists in the Shakespeare’s work who finds himself in a state of confusion and agony of whether to revenge against the acts of his uncle, Claudius, who brought down his father to ashes and subjected him to an endless mental torture. He was a very humble and steadfast man of the high level of intellectualism and sensitivity, who trod very carefully as he may be described, on actions he would take pertaining matters of great depth on earth. Due to this character, he showed a lot of sluggishness on carrying out the revenge on his uncle who killed his father.

As a result, Hamlet was called all sort of names and given huge terminologies with others referring to him as “‘a coward,’ many called him ‘a failure’ who was defeated to take an action revengefully on his uncle who was now in the public domain as a murderer,” among other names (Kinney and Arthur 85). Lastly, he fails to accurately project the eventual feelings Hamlet’s mother may have towards him upon realizing that her son Hamlet had been killed by none other than her new husband. He decides to eliminate Hamlet so that he remains to enjoy life comfortably without disturbance from Hamlet. This was driven by the fact that by deciding to repent, the new king, Claudio, had to surrender everything and all advantages he was meant to enjoy.

He could not afford to repent and surrender the advantages. Things were becoming more complicated with time as Hamlet himself had got the knowledge about his uncle’s action of killing his father and, were consequently in the dilemma on the best cause of action to take as a reward against the action of his uncle. But wouldn’t this be fair? Laertes may find himself making the same mistake Hamlet made by revenging against the wrong person since he declares an open revenge on the world and he is ready to pay any price only to realize the retaliation he plans (Snider 84). However, he ends up dying shortly after he was unable to individually carry out a proper revenge against the mighty cunning Hamlet.

The beautiful and lovely Ophelia also turned to revenge against Hamlet out of anger from the death of her father but all in vain as she ends up dying before accomplishing the mission. Why are all actions planned against Hamlet end up failing? Many careful readers remain to pose questions of such kinds and the possible answer still remains unknown. Hamlet feels relieved at some points upon realizing that his greatest source of loss of societal ethics and patience (his uncle Claudius), plans a repentance and is willing to go down to his knees asking for forgiveness from him out of the crime he committed (Levitt 84). As was discovered in McCullough et al (1), Hamlet experiences a lot of trauma, violence and mental torture in his plan to carry out a revenge against his uncle.

The random and unplanned deaths end the play. The planning of the revenge by a various character in the play was, however, not achieved at all because the retaliatory attacks were planned but were not eventually accomplished on the right person but rather the planners find themselves subjecting wrong targets to unnecessary death. It seems to be the plan of the king. Both the king and Hamlet planned a revenge to each other but they are fearful and not readily willing to break or go against the ethics or morals of the society to an extent of shading the blood of humans. ” The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature, edited by Karen Lohr and Jane Shook, Appalachian State University, 1989, pp.