moral order

Understanding the importance of moral order is essential to the

full comprehension behind Shakespeare’s ideas in the play Hamlet.

Moral order in plain definition can be understood as the presence of

good and the absence of evil in the manner the world works. Claudius,

the antagonist in the play, being the main source of evil, uses various

characters in his plans and through his actions causes the characters as

well as Hamlet to fall subject to this evil. Ultimately, disturbing moral

order by all the deaths and suffering created. Therefore, it is evident

that A. C. Bradley’s is accurate in stating that moral order is the

ultimate power in the play, and shows itself to be true through the

inevitable demise of those characters which took part in disturbing it.

According to A.C. Bradley, “In Shakespearean tragedy the main

source of convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good…

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