What are ways in which characters struggle to restore honour and certainty in hamlet?
There are three characters in the text who are struggling to restore honor to their father’s names by avenging their deaths. Hamlet, obviously, is struggling to restore honor to the state of Denmark by avenging his father’s murderer and ending the immoral relationship between Claudius and Gertrude. Laertes wants to honor his family’s name by avenging his father’s murder and his sister’s death. And off in Norway, the prince Fortinbras is preparing to honor his country by avenging his father’s death at the hands of Hamlet’s father. It could probably be argued that in the end, Fortinbras is the only one who does the job well, since Hamlet is confused by his own intellect, and Laertes is confused by his strong emotions.
