Hamlet's kills Polonius

In Act four, Hamlet's kills Polonius who is spying on him and his mother. Hamlet did not know that Polonius was hiding behind the curtain, but his anger and irritation made him loose himself. After he killed Polonius Hamlet still seeks for revenge. Claudius sends him to England because he wants to kill Hamlet there because nobody in Denmark would recognize that Hamlet is dead. Hamlet’s encounter with the Norwegian captain serves to remind of Fortinbras’s presence in the world of the play and gives Hamlet another example of the will to action that he lacks.

Hamlet kills Polonius 

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" How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge! What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?" Act.4 Sc.4 p.203 l.34-37
The first sentence says that he knows that he is wrong and that he should hurry with his revenge.In the second sentence he asks what is a man being if he just eats and sleeps.This passage shows that he knows that the time is right to take revenge and that he has enough evidence to take revenge but still he is so weak and scared to take revenge.

 "How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation. To this point I stand
That both the worlds I give to negligence.
Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged." Act.4 Sc.5 p.215 l.148-153
Laertes asks how his father died and that Claudius should not mess with him.

In the second part he says that he doesn't care if he goes to hell and that he will revenge his dad whatever it costs. Laertes has everything what Hamlet misses in his revenge. Laertes is ready to die and he is not scared to go to hell on the other side is Hamlet who is scared to take revenge for his dad. This part shows a great contrast because both want to revenge their fathers but there is still a difference because Laertes is ready to do what ever it takes and Hamlet is delaying his revenge because he is to weak and scared.

"And so have I a noble father lost,
A sister driven into desperate terms,
Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections. But my revenge will come."Act.4 Sc.7 p.225 l.27-31

 Laertes talks about his dead noble father and his beautiful sister who became insane because the dead of her father. He is ready to take revenge.The passage shows again the difference between Hamlet and other Characters in the book.

Everybody can take revenge except Hamlet.And we don't really know why hamlet struggles with his revenge because he has good reasons to kill his father's murder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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