Mousetrap In Hamlet
“Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.” This quote is more than true in Hamlet. In Hamlet, revenge consumes and destroys not only Hamlet’s targets, but also the innocent. Hamlet seeked revenge on Claudius but ended up killing Ophelia and Polonius along the way.
Hamlet was set on getting revenge on Claudius in the beginning. He had a showing of ‘Mousetrap’ to see if Claudius had a reaction. After the play, he was speaking with his mother and thought that Claudius had come into the room. Hamlet grabbed his sword and killed Polonius. Hamlet let his desire to get revenge get in the way of seeing what he was actually doing. Once Hamlet killed Polonius, everything began to go downhill. “Haste me to know ‘t, that I, with wings …show more content…
Hamlet pushed her away so much that Ophelia committed suicide. Hamlet was so determined to kill Claudius that he did not realize how much he actually loved Ophelia. Once Ophelia was dead he regretted everything that he had done to her. He still let revenge get in the way of everything. “Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon – he hath killed my king and whored my mother, popp’d in between th’ election and my hopes, thrown out his angle for my proper life, and with such cozenage – isv’t not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm? And is ‘t not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come in further evil?” (5.2.63-70)
Hamlet was going to kill Claudius in the play earlier but Claudius had been praying. Hamlet did not want to kill Claudius while he was praying because Hamlet believed that Claudius would go to heaven. At the end of the play, Hamlet decided it was time to get revenge on Claudius. Laertes was also killed in the process of killing Claudius. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, and now I’ll do ‘t. and so he goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned: a villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do the same villain send to heaven”
Hamlet was set on getting revenge on Claudius in the beginning. He had a showing of ‘Mousetrap’ to see if Claudius had a reaction. After the play, he was speaking with his mother and thought that Claudius had come into the room. Hamlet grabbed his sword and killed Polonius. Hamlet let his desire to get revenge get in the way of seeing what he was actually doing. Once Hamlet killed Polonius, everything began to go downhill. “Haste me to know ‘t, that I, with wings …show more content…
Hamlet pushed her away so much that Ophelia committed suicide. Hamlet was so determined to kill Claudius that he did not realize how much he actually loved Ophelia. Once Ophelia was dead he regretted everything that he had done to her. He still let revenge get in the way of everything. “Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon – he hath killed my king and whored my mother, popp’d in between th’ election and my hopes, thrown out his angle for my proper life, and with such cozenage – isv’t not perfect conscience to quit him with this arm? And is ‘t not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come in further evil?” (5.2.63-70)
Hamlet was going to kill Claudius in the play earlier but Claudius had been praying. Hamlet did not want to kill Claudius while he was praying because Hamlet believed that Claudius would go to heaven. At the end of the play, Hamlet decided it was time to get revenge on Claudius. Laertes was also killed in the process of killing Claudius. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, and now I’ll do ‘t. and so he goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned: a villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do the same villain send to heaven”