Evil And Corruption In Hamlet Essay

Revenge is not the right solution; it only causes more suffering and pain. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet the young prince of Denmark plots for revenge after finding the news that his father, the former king, was murdered and dethroned by his own brother. Throughout the play, Shakespeare focuses on a tone of mysterious dread and surmounting tension to reveal the internal conflicts within Hamlet’s psyche. To illustrate his theme of how evil and corruption lead Hamlet to madness, Shakespeare depicts distinct and worsening images of decay within Denmark. The first sign of the country’s moral disintegration appears at the beginning of the play, when Hamlet and a few officers wait on the dark battlement of the castle for the ghost of his father. The unsettling and eerie quiet is broken when one of the officers, Marcellus, claims “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I, IV, 100). Although the the ghost of Hamlet’s father has not yet
Throughout the play, we can trace a progression of corruption that begins with the murder of his father and leads to the “death” and “disease” of Hamlet, Claudius, Polonius, and others. Like the corrupted government of Denmark, Hamlet’s mental state has fully degraded to the point of return; he has murdered five people and, because of that, he has struggled with his sanity and given up all hope for a return to peace. “He poison him I’ th’ garden for his estate...You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago’s wife” (III. iii. 292-290). However, Hamlet is planning to murder his uncle, Claudius. And because of Hamlet’s madness, he sees that the corruption originating from disease leads to death. “Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do” (IV. iv. 47). Hamlet’s corruption has completed. He avenges his father’s murder by killing the King. He has goes against God and his