Examples Of Justice In Hamlet
Dakota Bair
Mrs. Berry
Period 6B
Hamlet Mission Impossible
Justice
In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, justice, revenge, and love were big themes in the play. The concept of justice is hard to understand in the play, also agreeing that Hamlet also receives justice or revenge for his murdered father. By killing his uncle Claudius, does Hamlet truly receive justice or did he seek revenge for his father’s death? Was Hamlet’s doings for the love of his father or the hatred of his uncle? Justice is key for Hamlet because he thinks that he receives justice for the death of his uncle, but really it is just revenge. Hamlet is charged by the self-proclaimed ghost of King Hamlet to avenge the King's death. This is the focus of the …show more content…
Horatio states Hamlet’s case to Fortinbras; And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver (V. ii. 348-358)." This truly tells the scene of Denmark. Bloodshed led to more bloodshed that soon led to the death of everyone involved. Many lives were lost because of a quest for Justice. If so, in the pursuit for justice and many lives are lost on your way, is it truly justice that’s been found? No it is not. If there were to be justice with the death of Claudius only then, yes justice would have been served. Since there were so many lives that were lost in Hamlet’s seek for his justice then there was justice but only revenge.
One can also look upon the point of view from Laertes. He comes to Denmark to find his father murdered and sister dead. His father killed by Hamlet and his sister gone mad because of it, and so she kills herself by drowning. Laertes exclaims, "And so have I a noble father lost; A sister driven into desperate terms,- Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount
Mrs. Berry
Period 6B
Hamlet Mission Impossible
Justice
In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, justice, revenge, and love were big themes in the play. The concept of justice is hard to understand in the play, also agreeing that Hamlet also receives justice or revenge for his murdered father. By killing his uncle Claudius, does Hamlet truly receive justice or did he seek revenge for his father’s death? Was Hamlet’s doings for the love of his father or the hatred of his uncle? Justice is key for Hamlet because he thinks that he receives justice for the death of his uncle, but really it is just revenge. Hamlet is charged by the self-proclaimed ghost of King Hamlet to avenge the King's death. This is the focus of the …show more content…
Horatio states Hamlet’s case to Fortinbras; And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver (V. ii. 348-358)." This truly tells the scene of Denmark. Bloodshed led to more bloodshed that soon led to the death of everyone involved. Many lives were lost because of a quest for Justice. If so, in the pursuit for justice and many lives are lost on your way, is it truly justice that’s been found? No it is not. If there were to be justice with the death of Claudius only then, yes justice would have been served. Since there were so many lives that were lost in Hamlet’s seek for his justice then there was justice but only revenge.
One can also look upon the point of view from Laertes. He comes to Denmark to find his father murdered and sister dead. His father killed by Hamlet and his sister gone mad because of it, and so she kills herself by drowning. Laertes exclaims, "And so have I a noble father lost; A sister driven into desperate terms,- Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount