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Shakespeare’s most highly criticized and debated work, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is also one of his most analyzed works in modern times. The theme of revenge and its methods is still not clearly understood by most scholars. There are many different ideas as to the reason for each characters approach to their personal revenge in the play. The three main characters that are plagued by the necessity of revenge are Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras. It is the way in which each of these characters goes about their revenge that sets them apart from one another because the circumstances of their preoccupation with revenge are the same. All three of these young men’s fathers were killed invoking them to avenge the murder. The question is who went about avenging his fathers murder in the most rational, emotional, and effective way? There are three main families in The Tragedy of Hamlet. The first main family is of Fortinbras of Norway. The second family is of the main character, Hamlet. The third and last of the main families was the family of Polonius. The heads of all three of these families was killed. Some scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet this way to show the different ways in which Prince