Revenge_(hamlet)

Revenge (hamlet) REVENGE In my mind, the primary theme of Hamlet is revenge and betrayal. To me it appears that, throughout the whole play, someone is always trying to get back at someone or is using someone for their own benefit. This theme has always been a common one among playwrights and even modern screenplay writers because it can be very easy to create a very complicated work based on the theme of revenge. Throughout Hamlet there are different examples of people succumb with the need for revenge. The most obvious example is Hamlet. Hamlet is on a quest to revenge his father's murder. This becomes clear right from Act 1, Scene 5 when Hamlet first realizes that his father's death was not accidental but that his father was actually murdered. The lines "Adieu, adieu! Remember me." (line 92, Act 1, Scene 5) shows that this is the ghost's intent in coming back to speak with Hamlet. Although he does not say the words "revenge", or kill, he indirectly and subtlety leads Hamlet to believe that he is to avenge his fathers death. When Hamlet repeats the phrase "Adieu, adieu! Remember me!" these words show that Hamlet will not ever forget his fathers plea to hamlet, king, revenge, claudius, need, death, very, scene, feel, now, think, someone, polonius, laertes, know, father's, example, adieu, way, time, theme, situation, shows, rage, line, last, kill, fathers, father, act, about, words, whole, unless, toward, throughout