Hamlet's Troubles

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Hamlet’s Troubles

William Shakespeare is a master mind when it comes to literature and writing plays. One of the greatest plays he wrote is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In the play, Hamlet’s mind is drawn in many directions at one time by different forces. The two forces are, his Father’s ghost forcing him to kill Claudius because he murdered him, and the second one is the force of his love for Ophelia.
The force from Hamlet’s father on him is an obligated one. When the ghost says “But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown,” (I, iv, 38-40) Hamlet realizes that his uncle Claudius, who is now king, killed his father and he knows that he must kill him in order to avenge his father’s death. This is a heavy obligation on Hamlet’s part and he feels he owes it to his father to kill Claudius. When Hamlet gets the chance to kill Claudius he does not, instead he says “When he is drunk asleep, or in a rage, or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed…then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, and that his soul may be as damned and black as hell…” (III, iii, 89-95) and vows to kill Claudius when he is in sinning somewhere. This only make him procrastinate Hamlet is left to brood over the killing more, which, he already he has been showing signs of going mad. If Hamlet had killed Claudius right at that point in time, nothing else in play would have occurred. At the end of the play Hamlet forces Claudius to drink the poisoned wine and says “Here, thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. Is thy union here?…” (V, ii, 313-314) and with that the king dies. Hamlet finally avenges his father’s death, but it is only minutes before Hamlet meets his fate and dies as well. No matter what, Hamlet stayed loyal to his father through think and thin, and the thick of it was his own death.
In the case of Ophelia and Hamlet the force ...