"How does Shakespeare represent the development of Hamlet's revenge during the first three acts of the Play?"

... "How does Shakespeare represent the development of Hamlet's revenge during the first three acts of the Play?" Shakespeare's Hamlet, written in 1601, is a play on the subject of revenge and tragedy. Hamlet's father is murdered by Claudius; Hamlet's uncle and subsequently father. Hamlet refuses to believe his father's death was an accident and his suspicion falls on Claudius and Hamlets mother Gertrude who subsequently marries Claudius. Throughout the first three acts of the play Hamlet wills himself to carry out his revenge yet falters at the last moment by making excuses. The visitations from Old Hamlet's Ghost pressurises Hamlet into the Roman ideology of revenge, where the son must act if the state does not take action against the murderer and not the Christian moral code where revenge and justice must be left for God only. The development of Hamlet's revenge is one which is diverse and will be explored

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