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Revenge Vs Justice(macbath) - Research Paper

Revenge Vs Justice(macbath)


Revenge causes one to act blinding through anger, rather than through reason. It is a part of human nature that forces us to seek revenge against the person who has granted us with pain. But following the principle of an “eye for eye, tooth for tooth”, is not intelligent way to pursue justice. This is the same case in the play Hamlet written by Shakespeare, in the 16--------th century. In the play the two of the character’s fathers are brutishly murdered. The first murder character is the king Hamlet who is supposed to be revenged by his son prince Hamlet to king Claudius. The second murder of Lord Polonius supposes to be revenge by his son Laertes. Both Prince Hamlet and ...

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Claudius married late Hamlet’s wife, Queen Gertrude. Prince Hamlet, son of King Hamlet has a meeting with the ghost of his death father king Hamlet. Ghost conveys to his son that his own brother Claudius has murdered him. “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.” (I, v, 39-40). His father’s ghost informs Hamlet that he needs him to take revenge through the death of his brother Claudius.
The ghost also asks Hamlet to:
Let not the royal bed of the Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damned incest
But, howsoever thou pursuest this actd
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother ought; leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
To pick and sting her. (I, v, 84-89).

The ghost asks to take revenge without hurting his mother because she does not know any thing and she is a “seeming-virtuous queen;” ”(I, v, 47).
Hamlet already hates Claudius even before he met ...

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and the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape: yea, and, perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy (II, ii, 596-599)

Hamlet makes a plan:
…I have heard,
That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,
Have by the cunning of the scene
Been stuck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaim’d their malefactions;
For the murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle; I’ll observe his look; (II, ii, 586-594).

Hamlet in this plan is planning to see the reaction of Claudius during the play, and if reacts unusually ...

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Added: 2/11/2005 06:25:49 AM
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