Hamlet's Revenge

The theme of revenge is developed through Hamlet’s statement because he wrote the letter targeting his friends. Hamlet knew that his friends would be delivering the message so he indicated in the document that whoever is bringing it must be killed. This develops the theme because Hamlet only did this to take revenge that his own close friends betrayed him to become an ally of Claudius. He was affected by the fact that they were going to go behind his back and spy on him, and now he seeks retaliation. The letter was to remove the fact that Hamlet should be killed, Hamlet could have written anything else but he decides to target his friends as revenge due to the fact that they deceived
Hamlet.