Hamlet

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Many people want to get revenge of many things, such as the death of a person or some other things that they don’t make sense about it. The definition of the word Vengeance means to act or case in point of cause injury to return for an injury or harm someone else. Payback causes one to perform blindly during madness rather than through reason. In the act of Hamlet by Shakespeare, revenge plays an important role in the acts, in these acts there two main character that demonstrate revenge. All of their revenge canters in order of the love for their family member that died; these characters are Hamlet and Laertes.
Hamlet is the son of the late King Hamlet of Demark, who died few months before the start of the play begins. After King’s dead, his brother Claudius, becomes the new king of Demark and marries King’s widow, Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. Hamlet fears that Claudius killed his own brother in arrange to be the new king of Demark. After Hamlet’s fathers’ death a ghost appears to him telling him that Claudius had definitely kill the “I am thy Father’s spirit. To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love … Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (57). Hamlet now is more annoyed of how to revenge his father’s death, he becomes very suspicious. He wants to take revenge by killing Claudius, but hamlet does not thinks reasonable, because he had the chance to kill him but he wanted to wait until the time comes to kill him.
Instead of killing Claudius, Hamlet makes the mistake by killing Polonius. While hamlet was talking to his mother in the room, Polonius was behind a curtain so he thought that the persona that was behind the curtain was Claudius. By mistake he kills Polonius, “by stabbing the man through the curtain… how now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead ” (171). Hamlet had believed that the person was the King but it was Polonius. He made that mistak...