Within Hamlet a lot of death takes place within the tragic story. Who is to blame is a controversial subject. The main coordinator of the deaths was Hamlet’s Uncle, Claudius. This is due to his first action of killing Hamlet’s father. If he had not of done that, Hamlet would not have been as deeply depressed and suspicious of his Uncle and Mother’s actions. Without the killing of his father, Hamlet would have never thought of murdering his family members. In a close second was the “Ghost” of King Hamlet. The Ghost presented Hamlet with the initial thought and “fact” that Claudius poisoned his father. With the suspicion that the ghost was only a being of the Devil, Hamlet did not immediately attempt to kill his father. In combination, the ghost and Claudius, both lit the spark and fueled the fire within Hamlet. Without the actions of these two characters, most to none of the death would not have happened. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother plays the next biggest part in the Hamlet killings due to her acceptance of Claudius and being naive to the actual truth and hiding it from Hamlet. Gertrude also seconds Claudius’s conclusion of Hamlet being crazy or mad in order to cover up the fact that Hamlet was getting close to the truth. The king’s second hand man Polonius, added to the murders just as much as Gertrude did. He was always in what was going on and added even more depression to Hamlet’s mind. This addition was due to Polonius’ demanding Ophelia to not see Hamlet and that he was doing bad things to her. Polonius, in an act of irony, gets killed by Hamlet while trying to listen in on a conversation him and his mother were having. Hamlet’s madness made his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, get involved due to Claudius sending Hamlet to England to try to save the kingdom from his rash acts and certain craziness. These two men also get killed indirectly by Hamlet due to their involvement with the king’s operations and trying to question the heck out of Hamlet. Fortinbras and Laertes played similarly small roles in the murders but they never directly involved themselves in the actions of the royal family. Fortinbras added stress to the king while “passing through” Denmark and then invading the kingdom. Laertes arrived at just the right moment for Claudius to take hold of him and unleash a plot for Hamlet’s death. Claudius convinced Laertes that Hamlet meant to murder Polonius (which he might have) and that he should be the direction of his anger. Within the time that all of these events took place, someone had to interpret the actions of these people; that someone is Hamlet. Without him interpreting and taking others’ actions into account, none of the murders would have taken place either. The thing is that someone had to send those thoughts into motion and without the death of King Hamlet brought on by Claudius, Hamlet would not have had to think the ways he had.
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