Hamlet Is Wrong Not To Revenge
John Doe
Professor
Hamlet afpi “Revenge is wrong, yet Hamlet is wrong not to revenge.”
-Andrew Folley
In Shakespear’s Hamlet, a theme of revenge is shown throughout the play in which each character seeks out differently. The two polar opposites being Prince Hamlet and Prince Fortinbras are often discussed due to their different methods of action or in Hamlet’s case, no action. Assuming one has read the play, in the end, we are left with Hamlet’s dying wish for Fortinbras to be King. Because there is not anyone left to take the throne, the audience is expected to accept the fact that Fortinbras will be king and everything will be okay. The play has no conclusion; therefore, the future of Denmark is left to the audience’s imagination. The simplest argument is that because Fortinbras is a man of action, one assumes he will make a great king despite …show more content…
He is first mentioned after the Ghost shows up and Horatio wonders if the Ghost is a sign of the attack that Fortinbras has planned in order to take back the land that his father lost along with his life; and also seeks revenge for his father. At this point, Fortinbras’ aggressiveness begins to be shown because he has “[s]harked up a list of lawless resolutes” (1.1.98.) meaning that Fortinbras is leading in an army to reclaim the land that his father lost. Hamlet would never go through with such a mission; he may think about it but he would never follow through. The unstableness that Hamlet show throughout the play are not what a good ruler should portray. Andrew Folley’s reiterates the idea in his article, Heaven or Havoc? The end of Hamlet, “He remains prone to the violent swings of mood which have seen him oscillating between deep depression and manic outbursts.” The fact that Fortinbras is actually doing something regardless of the consequences that may follow, he is getting something
Professor
Hamlet afpi “Revenge is wrong, yet Hamlet is wrong not to revenge.”
-Andrew Folley
In Shakespear’s Hamlet, a theme of revenge is shown throughout the play in which each character seeks out differently. The two polar opposites being Prince Hamlet and Prince Fortinbras are often discussed due to their different methods of action or in Hamlet’s case, no action. Assuming one has read the play, in the end, we are left with Hamlet’s dying wish for Fortinbras to be King. Because there is not anyone left to take the throne, the audience is expected to accept the fact that Fortinbras will be king and everything will be okay. The play has no conclusion; therefore, the future of Denmark is left to the audience’s imagination. The simplest argument is that because Fortinbras is a man of action, one assumes he will make a great king despite …show more content…
He is first mentioned after the Ghost shows up and Horatio wonders if the Ghost is a sign of the attack that Fortinbras has planned in order to take back the land that his father lost along with his life; and also seeks revenge for his father. At this point, Fortinbras’ aggressiveness begins to be shown because he has “[s]harked up a list of lawless resolutes” (1.1.98.) meaning that Fortinbras is leading in an army to reclaim the land that his father lost. Hamlet would never go through with such a mission; he may think about it but he would never follow through. The unstableness that Hamlet show throughout the play are not what a good ruler should portray. Andrew Folley’s reiterates the idea in his article, Heaven or Havoc? The end of Hamlet, “He remains prone to the violent swings of mood which have seen him oscillating between deep depression and manic outbursts.” The fact that Fortinbras is actually doing something regardless of the consequences that may follow, he is getting something