Death In Hamlet

Part I of Essay
The deaths in Shakespeare's Hamlet were, with some exceptions, morally acceptable & justifiable according to Elizabethan standards. An Elizabethan death was considered morally acceptable as long as it was out of honor and loyalty; as a result of sickness or disease; or if ....

Part II of Essay
.... for King Hamlet to leave purgatory, Hamlet was required to seek "revenge (for) his (father's) foul and most unnatural murder" through killing Claudius, the murderer "with traitorous gifts" who killed King Hamlet. Claudius became aware that Hamlet knew the truth and that he was conspiring against him. As a result, he devised a fight in which Hamlet was slain by Laertes. However, before Hamlet died he managed to kill Claudius. Hamlet's determination to avenge his father's death is what led to his own death. But through these actions, he was ....