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Why Is Hamlet Wrong
Hamlet was not entirely wrong in his actions. It is an often debated topic, whether Hamlet was right for seeking his father's revenge and killing Polonius, Claudius, and the others along his journey. You argue that it was just objectively immoral and wrong. However, you have to acknowledge his circumstances and the things that continue to happen to him. His father died and his mother remarried to his uncle just after his father's funeral. Then he sees his father's ghost, and it tells him that his uncle had really killed him. His father's ghost also told him to get revenge for him, yet not to harm his mother. Hamlet had just had his whole world destroyed and was told to kill his uncle by his father's ghost. And before you say the ghost was just an illusion and Hamlet …show more content…
You could say, since he and the ghost were out of the other sight when they spoke, that the conversation was just of Hamlet's imagination. I would like to argue that Hamlet's uncle, King Claudius, reacted to the play, re-enacting the story Hamlet had been told by the ghost. Claudius had the play stopped after the death of Hamlet's father's murder was re-enacted. Something hit a little too close to home, eh? These reasons alone are enough to justify Hamlet's want for revenge. Hamlet kills more than just Claudius throughout the play. But he had been feigning madness and it made the royal family afraid and confused. Because while he seemed completely mad, he would do or say things here and there that threatened their dark secrets. Polonius, a close friend of the royal family. Began to plot with Claudius to see if Hamlet had gone mad because Ophelia, Polonius' daughter, had rejected him or if it was because of his father's death. Polonius was stabbed by Hamlet while listening to Hamlet's conversation with his mother. Hamlet had hoped it was Claudius behind the curtain, but he still got rid of the obstacle

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