Essay On Hamlet's Relationship With His Father

Slamming doors, cold, clear tears running down your face like miniscule rivers. The yelling has subsided and it is eerily quiet, but the anger still roars inside of you. A fight with the parents is never a pleasant one. The relationship between a father and son is a strong bond, which can be devastated if one of them is murdered. What if, perhaps, that fight or conversation took place with you dead father. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 1 Hamlet Jr. is presented with that not so usual situation. Hamlet Sr. is murdered by Hamlet Jr’s. Uncle. During the novel you never see them truly interact, though you can tell how their relationship was by the way Hamlet acted after the death of his father. Hamlet is still grieving over his father's
His father is dead with no warning, little did he know he would soon be informed it was murder. He is devastated and is losing himself in a deep pit of despair, “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon gainst self-slaughter” (Shakespeare 29). If suicide was not a sin Hamlet would let himself burn, the amount of pain he is in over his father's death is tearing his very being apart piece by piece. He wants his excruciating pain to be gone in anyway he can possibly find. If Hamlet and his father did not have the bond that they did, he would not in his right mind contemplate suicide like he does in this scene. Hamlet and his father only have a brief interaction in Scene 5 of Act 1, in which Hamlet learns the truth about his father's death from his father's ghost. You are able to dissect by the way Hamlet carries himself throughout the opening scene, and how he acts that he and his father were, without a doubt, extremely close. It is a bond that you can see carrying out through the duration of the story. He is told to avenge his father’s death, if Hamlet and his father were not close he would not have even considered killing his