Internal Conflict In Hamlet

The war between a passion and one’s morality can cause tremendous conflicts, both within oneself and with outer factors. For this reason, the conflict between a private passion and responsibility is a popular theme within literature. Shakespeare’s Hamlet accurately portrays a character of this sort. Hamlet faces a desire for revenge, seeking to right the death of his innocent father. This task creates conflicts and follows the prince, which drives the plot and thematic values of the play forward. Hamlet almost becomes an exaggeration of the real emotions felt by humans, making the work relevant to this day.
Hamlet is an emotional character that faces and creates conflicts throughout the play. Immediately, the first scene reveals the internal and external conflicts that disagree with his morals. In just one soliloquy, the audience is faced with Hamlet’s feelings towards his mother, father, uncle, and the world itself.
There must be reasoning to Hamlet’s dramatic surge of anger and frustrations with the world and the God he loves. Anger, murder, incest, lustful thoughts, and suicide are all sins that construct from the contemplation of revenge. It is necessary for Hamlet to struggle against these sins to emphasize the negative effects that rebellion with God will create. Despite the fact that Hamlet expressed anger towards these crimes against God, Shakespeare expresses the consequences to all those who were involved in these sins by essentially killing then by each other’s hands. As seen in Scene 5 of the play, the results of these sinners are death. It should be noticed however, that repentance was only brought by Hamlet and his foe, Laertes, when, after Laertes asks for forgiveness, Hamlet states, “Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee-” (5.2.364). Hamlet’s conflicts affect everyone around him, whether they are enemies or loved