McBeth vs Hamlet
... Revenge is a predominant theme in William Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet and McBeth. ... In the play Hamlet, Hamlet comes to find that his father has been murdered and has several ideas of who it might have been. ... ” (Act I, Scene ii, lines 254-257) Hamlet is immediately telling the audience that because of his father’s death revenge will be taken. He is also very positive that the newly crowned king may have committed the crime with some assistance from Hamlet’s mother (the former, now new kings wife). ... Hamlet first addresses the thought of the king being the murderer in Act I as stated in the quote above. In order to find out if this is true Hamlet has a play put on that would help proves his assumptions correct.