Hamlet

Hamlet Hamlet In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, two of the character's fathers are murdered. The first murdered character is King Hamlet whose murder is supposed to be revenged by his son, Prince Hamlet. The second murder is Polonius whose murder is supposed to be revenged by his son Laertes. Both Prince Hamlet and Laertes go to seek revenge for the death of their fathers, however they will each use different methods to accomplish their deeds. Prince Hamlet has a meeting with the dead ghost of his father King Hamlet. The Ghost reveals to his son that his brother Claudius murdered him. Hamlet is told by the ghost that he needs to avenge his death by murdering his uncle Claudius. By this time Claudius has already taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude. Hamlet decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father’s murder. Hamlet first decides to act “mad” which does not accomplish much besides warning his uncle that he might know that he hamlet, laertes, sword, claudius, uncle, poisoned, murder, murdered, father, stabs, king, death, play, son, prince, polonius, killed, first, father’s, fathers, both, time, seek, revenged, revenge, ready, queen, plan, out, much, mother, kill, go, ghost, gertrude