Revenge has indeed occupied a major area in our concerns that we often find it included in traditional lists of the sins. However, the view on revenge, being that of the average Elizabethan, is a case to case basis, for the average spectator at a revenge play was probably trapped in an ethical dilemma-a dilemma, to put it most simply, between what he believed and what he felt. The moral angle of the story is unavoidable, for it underlies the question- Is Hamlet predicated on the assumption that the Ghost’s command is morally binding? Regarding this matter, most critics still hold that the average Elizabethan believed a son morally bound to revenge his father’s death. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, raises a fundamental question of how Shakespeare intends his readers to regard the ethics of revenge.
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