Hamlet Is A Revenge Tragedy

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and a seemingly lengthy time to wear black clothing in grief, but the idea that Hamlet has lost his father, is subject to Claudius' ruthless words and is alone in his grieving makes us sympathise with him.

Shakespeare creates even more sympathy for Hamlet in the audience through the worrying issue of his mother's marriage to Claudius. Hamlet's father died merely two months ago, and Hamlet soliloquizes saying, "ere those shoes were old/ With which she followed my poor father's body/ Like Niobe...married with my uncle" Employing the image of shoes getting old Hamlet emphasises how quickly things changed following the supposed intensity of his mother's grief.

Hamlet is a character who has had much to deal with in the play. At the beginning of the play his father, the king of Denmark is cruelly murdered by his uncle, who then almost immediately marries his mother Gertrude. Hamlet dispieses them both greatly for this impromptus, untimely marriage; 'The funeral baked meats Did ...

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