After reading the passage from "Hamlet," we can choose the following option concerning its theme:
A. Forgiveness can be more powerful than the desire for revenge.
What is theme?
- Theme is the main idea developed in a literary work as a whole or in a part of it. A literary work can, thus, have more than just one theme.
What is the theme in the passage?
- In the passage from "Hamlet" that we are analyzing here, the theme of forgiveness being more powerful than revenge is developed. Hamlet has killed Polonius, Laertes's father, and Laertes is now avenging that murder.
- However, Laertes asks Hamlet to "exchange forgiveness with [him]." Here, we can see that, for Laertes, forgiveness is more important that revenge. By forgiving, one frees oneself from anger and resentment.
With the information above in mind, we can choose letter A as the best option.
The passage we are supposed to analyze here is the following:
[Laertes:) Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Northine on me!
-Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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