hamlet

Prerana Jain Shakespeare: Power and History Professor Rosendale May 20, 2002 A murder for a murder will make a pile of bodies. “I am justly killed by my own treachery,” says Laertes (V.ii.308). If the reader agrees with Laertes, then he must acknowledge the fact that Hamlet, too, is guilty of “treachery” as both are in the same situation of a dutiful son seeking to avenge a father’s death. Depending upon whether or not one …showed first 75 words of 702 total…

…showed last 75 words of 702 total…power of destiny, Hamlet’s “tragic flaw” might actually be a subconscious knowledge of the truth. Hamlet’s death would no longer be tragic; it would be the due consequence of his own sins, including killing Polonius. Hamlet would not be the story of a virtuous son avenging his father’s wrongful death; it would be a satire on human pride and folly taking “an eye for an eye” and “making the world go blind.”