Hamlets Dilemma
I understand fully Hamlet's motives in hesitation to kill his uncle. He acted according to his catholic belief in a very brutal way. However one thing believed by catholics more in later years, is that it is not our place to decide hell or heaven for a person. Most Christians in general believe that. I personally am a supporter of the death penalty. However I don't see it the way Hamlet does. When a savage man cannot be saved by punishment, he deserves death not only for the good of himself but for the good of those in his presence. Though I'm a Christian I do not believe in the death penalty with the mindset as they should be damned to hell. I think of it more as an extermination of one who cannot be saved in this life.
Many Catholics will also read you the punishments of the breaking of old testemant laws in Hamlet's defense. The bible states that if you kill you should be killed. However most noncatholic Christians will tell you how those laws have been done away with being that they are old testiment times when God would slaughter thousands upon thousands of people for their sins along with the very few holy men of those times. According to the new testiment alot of those old hash ways are done away with by Jesus.
I would not agree with Hamlet in the killing of his uncle because I believe he is doing it for the wrong reason. I believe a person does not damn another person to hell. Yet having the motive, reason, and taking the action to do so is the same sin. I believe it would have been more just if Hamlet had killed his uncle for the good of the kingdom, his mother, and his father's ghost. Not for revenge and reservement of time in hell for Claudius. Hamlet's idea in this case makes sence but is extremely twisted and unholy. I do believe Hamlet is going mad and it is probably from his extreme sensitivity to the situation of his family.
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