Consciousness Undone

In Hamlet there are buried many strong messages and suggestions. The reader of this play may look only at the surface of the words written, but would miss all the haunting messages of life and living without any faults. Throughout this play the ideas of guilt and vengeful thoughts pull at the words and actions of Hamlet and his uncle Claudius. These themes of the character’s thoughts have an underlying message that Shakespeare hopes readers and listeners will pick up. Shakespeare repeats the theme in many of these character’s lines to make his point to the audience. Shakespeare uses the words and thoughts of the two main characters to show that guilt and vengeful thoughts control people once they are allowed entrance to the human body and mind
Hamlet is the first poor soul who lets vengeful thoughts enter him. All to soon his father’s ghost comes to warn him of his uncle’s doings. Hamlet, before knowing the truth, begins his plot with a hurried promise that he, “with wi...