William Shakespeare s Hamlet, The Prince Of Denmark

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark has remained to be the most astonishing of William Shakespeare’s tragedies. It is widely known to be considered as a philosophy or drama based play, but moral center is universally acknowledged. The characters in Hamlet persistently struggle with the power of their consciences, as they are tempted to satisfy their innermost desires. Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark, is bestowed upon the strenuous task of taking justice into his hands to avenge his father’s murder. Through this, complications of morality is put on display and is the overall moral center in Hamlet which is shown in his conflict of the soul between honour and conscience; emphasizing the moral controversy regarding revenge,†¦show more content†¦He is given an available chance to avenge his father’s murder, but he ultimately decides to not harm Claudius believing he was praying. Furthermore, he assumed that it would be unjust to kill him and send him to heaven without true vengeance. This describes his indecisive conscience. Moreover, Hamlet displays honour in his dealings with Ophelia. He tries to warn her away from him by appearing to her in a state of disarray and acting rather psychotic. This is evident when he speaks to her for the last time; â€Å"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my back than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Venegas 2 What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery,† (3.1.131-139). Through this, morality is put on display and is the overall moral center in Hamlet which is shown in his conflict of the soul between honour and conscience. Hamlet’s questioning of life is a part of the moral center in Hamlet which promotes his virtue, perseverance, and ‘gentle human’ qualities. In Hamlet’s famous to be or not to be soliloquy, he is contemplating suicide. He compares death to a â€Å"little sleep,† (3.1.68), which