Hamlet: A Tool of a Higher Power Essay -- Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

Hamlet A Tool of a Higher Power Throughout Shakespeares Hamlet, it seems that a higher spiritual power isinfluencing the events winning place in the differentiate of Denmark.  A ghost of the latterly deceased King Hamlet appears to Young Hamlet telling him of his virtuallyfoul and most unnatural murder (1.5.30). This begins a chain of events leadingup to the martyrdom of Hamlet, and the spiritual cleansing of the throne ofDenmark. Firstly, Hamlet sees the evil and contemptible state of life story in Denmark.Gertrude, Hamlets mother and the Queen of Denmark, marries his Uncle soon afterthe death of his father. . . .The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forththe marriage tables (1.2.189-90).  Depressed, and most likely confused, Hamletspeaks his for the first time soliloquy in the play, else named the dram of evil speech,           . . . Frailty, thy name is woman          A little mo nth, or ere those shoes were old          With which she followed my poor fathers body          Like Niobe, all disunitewhy she, even she          married with my uncle . . .          With such dexterity to incestuous sheets          It is not, nor it can not come to good.          (1.2.152-158,163-4). In addition, Hamlet sees the corruption inDenmark when the ghost of his recently deceased father appears to him.  Theghost claims that... ...een dies from drinkingHamlets poisoned drink, and when Hamlet realized he is not going to live to seeanother day, he kills the King, thus winning his revenge.  Fortinbras, the Princeof Norway, takes over the throne, while Horatio (Hamlets one true friend) tellsthe story of the awful, evil deeds done in the state of Denmark.  Furthermore, the deaths of the nobility of Denmark act as a expression of spiritualcleansing, meaning that all the wrong-doing had been revenged and paid for bythe deeds at the end of the play.  All the evil, and the foul doings of Denmarkhad been absolved by the deaths of the main characters.  Hamlet is to a faultconsidered a martyr because he was a good person who died, so that he could, inessence, cause the purification that returned the natural order of things in thestate of Denmark.