Essay About Act Iv And Scene Iii

The Revenge of Prince Hamlet
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The Revenge of Prince Hamlet
Shakespeares, Hamlet, is a wonderfully written play that has many tangled webs
of lies, betrayal, and revenge. The play starts off with the death of Hamlets father, the
king. One night Hamlet sees the ghost of his dead father. The ghost speaks to Hamlet and
tells him that he was killed by Claudius. Claudius, who is Hamlets uncle, has recently
become the new king and as well married Hamlets fathers wife, Gertrude. Prince Hamlet
devotes himself to avenging his fathers death, but because he is contemplative and
thoughtful by nature, his heart is not fully in the deed, and he delays, entering himself into
a deep depression and strong apparent madness. Hamlets quest for revenge leads him on a
long journey of deception and eventually his own death.
Hamlet himself feels that he is slacking on his vengeance. He explains that “all
occasions do inform against [him] and spur [his] dull revenge.” (Act IV, Scene iii) There
are many points in the book were Hamlet gets upset at himself because he isnt applying
himself to his quest for revenge. Hamlet must do what his father told him to do. His father
says that if Hamlet ever loved him, he will “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”
(Scene I, Act v) He considers himself weak and says “My fathers brother, but no more like
my father/ than I do Hercules.” (Act I. Scene ii)
Eventually Hamlet gets his revenge in a sword battle between himself and Laertes.
Hamlet scores the first hit, but declines to drink from the kings goblet. Instead Gertrude
takes a drink from it and is swiftly killed by the poison. Laertes then succeeds in wounding
Hamlet, though he does not die of the poisoned sword tip immediately. Laretes is cut by
his own swords blade, and, after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius is responsible for the
queens death, he dies from the blades poison. Hamlet, in a angry rage, stabs Claudius
with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink down the rest of the poisoned