Grief And Loss Of Revenge In Hamlet By William Shakespeare

In Hamlet, a famous play written by Shakespeare, Hamlet faces many challenges. Right from the opening of the play, Hamlet is challenged with grief and loss and is given the task of revenge. This burdensome task consumes Hamlet, making his nominal success pointless and superfluous. However, what Hamlet’s task of revenge does accomplish is that revenge is a dark and dangerous deed which can consume someone as easily as liberate them. Hamlet is all about gaining revenge against his uncle/stepfather Claudius. Hamlet does not believe that it is right for a man to marry his brother’s widow. In the beginning of the novel, Hamlet struggles with this concept and suspects his Uncle of murder. Struggling with the idea that his Uncle should be able to replace his father, taking his wife and his crown, is what leads Hamlet
His failure with the loss of his life is what actually gives the work its meaning. The audience is able to see that this work is about the pointlessness of revenge; revenge consumes a person and destroys their way of life. The reader sees that although Claudius is in the wrong as well, that taking the law into one’s own hands consumes a person. One must work within an established system to accomplish their goals, not attempt to fulfill Hammurabi’s Code of old. While many consider Hamlet’s hubris of indecisiveness as his downfall, that reason and logic is what actually kept him alive. One must be sure of one’s choices before acting, not act out of blind rage and emotion. Had Hamlet been even more decisive, he might have been able to realize the error in his ways. Revenge became the most important thing in Hamlet’s life; taking away someone else’s life was more important than living his to the fullest. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare shows that revenge consumes a person’s life, as shown through Hamlet’s failure, and is all in all the wrong act to