Part one of term paper
The deaths in Shakespeare's Hamlet were, with some exceptions, morally acceptable & justifiable according to Elizabethan standards. An Elizabethan death was considered morally acceptable as long as it was out of honor and loyalty; as a result of sickness or disease; or if it was accidental. Men who died in the midst of battle out of honor an ...

Part two of term paper
... of honor and loyalty during his quest to avenge his father's death. Hamlet died a morally acceptable death that was a result of his loyalty as a son for the honor of his father. King Hamlet returned from his grave as a ghost to tell Hamlet that he was "Doomed for a certain term to walk the night…Till the foul crimes done in (his) day of nature were burnt and purged away". In order for King Hamlet to leave purgatory, Hamlet was required to seek "revenge (for) his (father's) foul and most unna ...