Response to Shakespeares Presentation of the...

Response to Shakespeares Presentation of the Responsibilities and Obligations Placed on Sons by Fathers in Hamlet Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a play based on the theme of revenge (otherwise known as a revenge tragedy). However there are other themes to this play that may not be as obvious as the main. Love, hate, madness are all other themes to this play, along with the theme of responsibility to sons and fathers. This theme is sustained throughout the whole play when, at the climax, the responsibility of avenging his dead father is finally undertaken by Hamlet. The first example of the responsibility of fathers and sons is right at the beginning of the play with Hamlet and his father the old†¦show more content†¦The idea of this ghost is to force Hamlet into avenging his dead father, and is the pivot to which the entire novel is balanced. Without the entrance of the ghost there would be no reason for Hamlet to have suspected Claudius of being the murderer of his father and therefore he would not have avenged his father’s death. The ghost, by asking Hamlet to do this initiates the revenge theme. When the Ghost leaves Hamlet is left to contemplate what he should do now. He decides that he must avenge his father by killing Claudius, he ends the scene by saying â€Å"So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word. It is ‘Adieu, adieu, remember me’ I have sworn’t†. This means that he feels he must do this, it is his duty and he has promised his father that he will avenge him. Hamlet now has this obligation to his father and must complete it. He begins to dress in black clothes and mourns his father. He begins to look dishevelled and behaves oddly. Comments begin to be made, things like â€Å"No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled† and â€Å"ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle†. Hamlet also begins to contemplate his revenge. He plans how he is going to kill Claudius, and how he disagrees with his mother’s marriage to him. Hamlet, many times, contemplates killing Claudius but never seems to be brave enough to do so; he is very much a procrastinator and wants to put off this revenge right till the perfect