Theme Of Sin In Hamlet
“We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that man is justified by grace through faith apart from works” (Acts 13:38-39, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-10). We believe that all true believers, once saved, are kept secure in Christ forever (Romans 8:1, 38-39; John 10:27-30).” Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law, while the meaning of salvation combines many philosophical ideas, ideas that cannot be comprehended by a fixed mind. Both words of diction displayed in Hamlet, were common ideas that Shakespeare audience, the Elizabethans, acknowledged. The Elizabethans believed that this general idea of sin and
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Nevertheless, he withholds on killing Claudius because if he was to die at that given moment in time, than the sins of the uncle would be washed away. Hamlet states, "Now might I do it (pat,) now he is a-praying,/ And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven/ And so am I (revenged.)/ That would be scanned: A villain kills my father; and for that/ I, his sole son, do this same villain send/ To heaven.”(III.3.77-83) Hamlet determines that he wants to kill Claudius when he will cease to exist in the midst of his sins, which will allow Claudius to undergo some type of calamitous amercement after death. The reason Hamlet goes through as this trouble is due the fact that he wants his fathers killer to endure suffering in their afterlife, meaning hell. Another way in which one could go to hell in the after life, was to committing suicide. In Hamlet is it evident that two characters, Ophelia and Hamlet, both had thoughts of ending their life’s. After the death of her father, Ophelia, who found dead in the water, did not get a traditional Christian burial, assuming that she had committed suicide. Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, gives a descriptive image of her death by saying, “When down her weedy trophies and herself/ Fell in the weeping brook. Her
Nevertheless, he withholds on killing Claudius because if he was to die at that given moment in time, than the sins of the uncle would be washed away. Hamlet states, "Now might I do it (pat,) now he is a-praying,/ And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven/ And so am I (revenged.)/ That would be scanned: A villain kills my father; and for that/ I, his sole son, do this same villain send/ To heaven.”(III.3.77-83) Hamlet determines that he wants to kill Claudius when he will cease to exist in the midst of his sins, which will allow Claudius to undergo some type of calamitous amercement after death. The reason Hamlet goes through as this trouble is due the fact that he wants his fathers killer to endure suffering in their afterlife, meaning hell. Another way in which one could go to hell in the after life, was to committing suicide. In Hamlet is it evident that two characters, Ophelia and Hamlet, both had thoughts of ending their life’s. After the death of her father, Ophelia, who found dead in the water, did not get a traditional Christian burial, assuming that she had committed suicide. Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, gives a descriptive image of her death by saying, “When down her weedy trophies and herself/ Fell in the weeping brook. Her