Hamlet is a good example of how vengeance ultimately ends up taking more lives then was originally lost.

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Vengeance

        What is vengeance?  Is there an exact science to the word vengeance?  Vengeance to me is the act of reciprocating after an event has happened in either an equal or greater manner to what has already been done.  Vengeance distorts logic due to the suffering that one experiences due to something horrible that might have happened to them.  They feel as if they must return the pain to the wrong doer and usually, they will do anything they can to get even, even if they have to hurt many other people along the way.

        Hamlet is a good example of how vengeance ultimately ends up taking more lives then was originally lost.  The murder of his father in the beginning of the book drives Hamlet to get revenge.  Overwhelmed with feeling due to his loss and anger at his new uncle turned step-father, Hamlet starts to turn-off his friends.  Ophelia, who once was his secret girl-friend, is now disgusted at the way Hamlet acts towards her “I have heard of your paintings well enough.  God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.  You jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.  Go to, I’ll no more on’t, it hath made me mad” (Act III, Scene I, Lines 150-154).  Hamlet yells at Ophelia even though he truly still does have feelings for her.  In the end, Hamlet’s strive to get revenge for his father’s death, turns into a mass murder-suicide, him being one of the many who are lost.  

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        Another character from Hamlet is Polonius, a sneaky councilor of the State, friend of Claudius, and father of Ophelia and Laertes.  Polonius does not get along well with Hamlet at all and instead lends an offer many times to spy on Hamlet.  By spying on Hamlet, he is returning what Hamlet is supposedly doing to his home.  Hamlet is Laertes’ biggest competition in life, while ultimately they have many of the same characteristics, they are very different, and Polonius and Laertes both do not like him.  Not only is Hamlet, disliked for his competitive characteristics, but he is also in love ...

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