Violence in Hamlet

• even during duel at the end death takes place by poison rather than a fair fight
• Fortinbras uses deception in his war campaign by seeming like he's attacking polish
• nothing the same - feudalism and renaissance mixed
• blood behind curtain
• violence accidental
• starts with soldiers and preparations for war
• 'speak daggers but use none' unlike Vindice and Hippolito who actually threaten their mother
• Claudius as monarch condoning Laertes' private revenge
• Bente Videbaek 'Hamlet can not be allowed to survive the fifth act'
• Violence destroying Denmark's system of government
• survey hamlet before he's violent then send him away - waiting for it?
• poison harder to detect - adding to hiddeness and secrecy
• poison as machiavellian method not letting people know it was you who killed
• killing not for glory but for power
• being good warrior not making kings anymore
• warrior triumphing at the end but no glorious victory
• Men and women dying in same way - poison indiscriminate
• Eye for an eye the theory behind revenge
• Hamlet's promises of violence are immeadiately followed by delay - his antic disposition and going to speak to his mum