Hamlet, Laertes & Fortinbras: Avenging Their Fathers :: William Shakespeare

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the theme of avenge is very visible as the reader examines the characters of Hamlet himself, as well as Laertes, boy of Polonius, and Fortinbras, prince of Nor focussing and son of the late King Fortinbras. Each of these young characters felt the requisite to avenge the deaths of their fathers who they felt were untimely killed at the bloody hands of their murderers. However, the modal value each chose to go about this varies greatly and gives insight into their characters and how they progress end-to-end the play.Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras are similar in the fact that each had love, or at least respect their fathers. Enough to make an attempt to wreak revenge upon their fathers murderers at the risk of their own reputation, freedom, and souls. Each characters father had a well high social mannequin in their respective countries, which in crouch gives them high social class as well. With Hamlet and Fortinbras as sons of kings an d Laertes as the son of an aristocrat of high regard in the Danish court, either had a lot to loose if unsuccessful in their ploy. Each of the sons believed that the killers had shamed their fathers as well as themselves. Each acts in a way that they consider to be an attempt at restoring it to the family, as honor was a significant thing to up present in this day. Although similar in age, class and ambition to destroy their fathers killers, Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras each have characteristics that make them different from each other and show how each acted unlike the others when carrying out their plans. Hamlet seems to be the one who lets things dwell in his mind before taking any action or making an attempt at seek to achieve on with things. He shows this after the death of his father when he the Great Compromiser in morning and a depressed state for terce months without trying to get on with his life. Laertes seems to be the more quick minded of the three as he makes h asty judgements about Hamlet and is quick to blackmail his opinion upon his sister, Ophelia about his fears for her if she stays in the relationship. For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, a imperial in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a chipNo more.