Part one of term paper
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a classic example of a revenge play that never truly worked out as it should have. Time after time, Hamlet allows opportunities to slip through his hands postponing the death of his father’s murderer. One can’t help but wonder why Hamlet didn’t simply kill Claudius instantly after receiving the news from his f ...

Part two of term paper
... hurt throughout most of the play and unjustly face death as well. In many ways Hamlet was to blame for the pain inflicted on others such as Ophelia, Laertes and Polonius because of his own fears of being hurt as a result of the overwhelming anguish he faced after his father’s death. He truly wanted to avenge his father’s death and what he felt to be his mother’s betrayal for remarrying but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Hamlet was unaware of anything that had been going on in his hom ...