Revenge Leads to Tragedy

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reaction to the Ghost's news that Old Hamlet was murdered is rather ironic. Here, he seems willing to "sweep" to revenge Hamlet takes forever to get things done. Could it be that Hamlet will later hesitate to avenge his father's death because it is. “It's not easy to kill a relative, much less a king” (Roberts, P. 123). Hamlet finds it difficult to kill Claudius even though he is convinced that he definitely is the person who murdered his father the king.
I feel that Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic hero. Hamlet has all the good traits needed to be a tragic hero. He is brave and daring. One example of this is that when he went to England, he was taking a big risk. If his plan didn't work, he would have been executed. He also is loyal. His loyalty to his father, was the reason he was so angry at Claudius and his Mother. Another trait was that he was intelligent. He was able to think up the idea of faking insanity, in order to get more information ...

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him as a father – an idea that furthers Hamlet’s contempt: “We pray you to throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As of a father” (Davies, P. 73).
There are others whose deaths are a result of manipulation from society. In Hamlet the death of a character becomes a frequent event. Many people lose their lives as a result of their own self-centered wrong-doing. This is the case of Polonius’ family. The real tragedy of Hamlet is not about Hamlet or his family. It is of Polonius’ family because their deaths were not a result of sinful actions of their own. It was due to their innocent involvement in the schemes of Claudius and Hamlet.
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