Hamlet Forgiveness Quotes Analysis
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below": Corruption and Confusion found in Hamlet.
"Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him" (Luke 17:3). This quote from the Bible relates to the themes found in Hamlet. After the murder of King Hamlet, Claudius neither repents that he murdered his own brother nor does he show any sign of remorse. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare suggests that no sin is too great for God to forgive, but first we must ask for forgiveness; not to seek forgiveness is the greatest sin of all, worse even than murder. Prince Hamlet is justly angered by his uncle's actions and vows to "sweep to [his] revenge."(1.5.37). Although Claudius never asks God's forgiveness, there are many other characters in the play who commit sins but later express remorse. Laertes plays a main part of the king's plan for Hamlet's death. The king plans a fencing match in which Laertes' sword will be poisoned. Upset by his father's murder and the death of his sister, Ophelia, he agrees to the king's proposal: "[Claudius] is …show more content…
Greatly upset by this, Prince Hamlet recalls how much Queen Gertrude and his father loved each other before his murder. "Confess yourself to heaven, repent what's past, avoid what is to come, and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker...Good night. But go not to my uncle's bed. Assume a virtue if you have it not. [That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, of habits devil...]" (3.4.170). Hamlet and Gertrude are talking in her bedroom after Polonius has mistakenly been killed. He tells her to ask for forgiveness of her sins and to commit no more such sins with his own father's brother. Hamlet says his uncle is a monster for being responsible for such devilish actions and that she should repent while she
"Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him" (Luke 17:3). This quote from the Bible relates to the themes found in Hamlet. After the murder of King Hamlet, Claudius neither repents that he murdered his own brother nor does he show any sign of remorse. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare suggests that no sin is too great for God to forgive, but first we must ask for forgiveness; not to seek forgiveness is the greatest sin of all, worse even than murder. Prince Hamlet is justly angered by his uncle's actions and vows to "sweep to [his] revenge."(1.5.37). Although Claudius never asks God's forgiveness, there are many other characters in the play who commit sins but later express remorse. Laertes plays a main part of the king's plan for Hamlet's death. The king plans a fencing match in which Laertes' sword will be poisoned. Upset by his father's murder and the death of his sister, Ophelia, he agrees to the king's proposal: "[Claudius] is …show more content…
Greatly upset by this, Prince Hamlet recalls how much Queen Gertrude and his father loved each other before his murder. "Confess yourself to heaven, repent what's past, avoid what is to come, and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker...Good night. But go not to my uncle's bed. Assume a virtue if you have it not. [That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, of habits devil...]" (3.4.170). Hamlet and Gertrude are talking in her bedroom after Polonius has mistakenly been killed. He tells her to ask for forgiveness of her sins and to commit no more such sins with his own father's brother. Hamlet says his uncle is a monster for being responsible for such devilish actions and that she should repent while she