A Grave Situation: Hamlet's Dilemma

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     I do believe it is safe to say that Hamlet's nuts. Like, really nuts. However, despite this, he made a promise a few acts ago to avenge his father's death and kill his uncle. Well, his uncle who married his mom...so his step-dad-uncle. Ok, moving on, Hamlet Sr's ghost appeared, stuff happened and now Hamlet Jr is all 'I must kill the [current] king!' Or rather, 'I must get the king to confess. Oh. And then I kill him.' 

    Either way, the king going to die.

    Either way, Hamlet's crazy.

    Either way, this play is really quite...intense. 

Anyways, after a play Hamlet ingeniously tweaked to reenact the death murder of the king, Hamlet expected the king to have some form of reaction. 

By the way, the king did have a reaction.

   Personally, I like to imagine the king just abruptly standing up and screeching about lights and whatever and then running away all:

Lights! Get Me Lights! Arghbrefiebwrj!

So, Mr Murderer flees the premises and finds himself confessing everything he's done and feels.

The king confesses that he did kill the king, he did take the throne, and he does want forgiveness...if possible.

Yeah, Claudius confessed. He's guilty. So guilty.

  Meanwhile, Hammy over here finds his way over to his good ol' Uncle/Step-Dad and sees that he's praying. 

   Hamlet is slightly taken back by that and if anything, is quite displeased with this.

    You see, Hamlet came to his uncle to kill him. However, Hamlet feels conflicted to kill Claudius while praying since if killed by praying, there is a pretty good chance this guy will go to Heaven. Hamlet wants Claudius to burn in Hell. 

  To an extent, that also reveals much of Hamlet's character as well. Killing the man wasn't enough apparently. No, just slicing your sword and walking away wasn't good enough. Hamlet wanted Claudius to go to Hell.  This shows a great amount of anger and hatred from Hamlet to Claudius. 

   Alas, Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius. Again, he doesn't take action, however, I personally believe he is justified this time. 

     Looking at this from Hammy's POV, your uncle killed your dad and you find out about this. 

I don't know about you, but I would be absolutely livid. Beyond myself with grief, anger, frustration and many other emotions that are probably just synonyms to the ones mentioned. I personally would do everything in my power to get revenge. 

     Yes, the king was apologizing and yeah, he even said he was guilty, but to kill him while he was actually praying didn't seem appropriate. Because he was praying? Ahaha no, who cares what he was doing. But the chance of this stale piece of white bread to go to Heaven? Unacceptable. 

      Hamlet had every right to wait. 

Not to mention, I believe more of a confession should be made. You know? Perhaps more publicly. As of right now, Hamlet isn't exactly viewed as sane, and claiming his dead father told him to kill Claudius who killed him doesn't exactly seem believable.

So yeah, unless Hamlet's got proof, they'll just think the guy's crazier than they thought. 

Oh! Also Claudius, that son-of-a-gun! Yeah. He totally doesn't seem sorry. I don't care if he begs for forgiveness, if he's sorry, if he prays, if he jumps out of the book and stops Global Warming, he's not sorry. He's guilty of killing his brother, and he is an absolute scumbag for trying to fix it by basically crying to yourself how bothered you are by your 'guilt".

Claudius basically took someone's delicious cookie, stuffed it in his mouth, washed it down with soy milk, and looked at the poor person and was all 'Hey, I'm really sorry I took your cookie, but damn it was a good cookie." 

The deed is done, and honestly, there isn't much more to say about it. Claudius now has what he wanted and has to live with the 'guilt' of how he got it. 

Oh. Also...Hamlet, you suck. I liked Polonius. (I still like reading as you in class, but you're scum too.)

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