Hamlet
... by his uncle Claudius. Shakespeare makes that clear in the play when Hamlet’s father said “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown”. Hamlet had an extremely complex task to kill his father’s murderer, which is his uncle Claudius. What makes the task even harder Claudius married Hamlet’s mother, which made Claudius the new king. How is it possible to balance sorrow for a brother’s death with happiness for having married a dead brother’s wife? Claudius’s speech about marring his brother wife shows that Claudius had married his brother wife right after his brother death. This makes Claudius Hamlet’s new stepfather and the new king. Hamlet first chance to avenge his father’s murder was when Claudius was praying. Hamlet did not want to kill him at that point because if he did Claudius would have not gone to purgatory. Hamlet wants to make sure that Claudius goes to purgatory because his father has told him how bad it is. The father (the ghost) tells Hamlet “Doom’s for a certain term to walk the night, /and for the day confin to fast in fires, /Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature/Are burnt and purg’d away”. Hamlet is the person I sympathize with because he has the most burdens. I understand hamlet’s hesitation because he does not know if the ghost is telling him the truth. Since Hamlet does not know what lies beyond death, he cannot tell whether the ghost is truly his father’s spirit or whether it is an evil demon come from hell to tempt him toward destruction. This uncertainty about the spiritual world will lead Hamlet to wrenching considerations of moral truth. This could be one of Hamlet fears that the supernatural does not really excise. Hamlet by accident kills Polonius by stabbing him through a curtain he though it was King Claudius. Finally, Hamlet kills Claudius and avenges his father’s murder. Shakespeare state...