HAMLET QUOTE -> theme help please!!!!? :(?

Question

"Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand/Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:/Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, /Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, /No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head"
- The ghost talking to hamlet in act 1, sc5


which theme does this relate to out of these:
-disorder is dangerous/unacceptable so order must be restored
-a hero's fatal flaw will lead to tragedy
-appearances do not match with reality


and explain briefly please :( i personally don't think it really goes with any but my teacher said we had to use one of those!

Answer 1

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Tough choice. You can go with the first or third choice.

Disorder is dangerous: the King was killed, so the new King must be killed. Or, the rightful heir to the throne, Hamlet, should have become king and so therefore must become King. (If Hamlet is clearly of age, why doesn't he become King? There's some reference to a vote or something, but rightfully the Prince inherits the throne, not the King's brother, unless the Prince is underage, which Hamlet isn't.)

Or you could go with choice #3, which is that the King appeared to die while napping, but really was poisoned.

This particular scene doesn't apply to number 2, although much of Hamlet does. The king's uneasiness is about not having confessed his sins before he was killed, which isn't his fatal flaw, just an accident of fate.

Answer 2

Here, I got this description from sparknotes.com...

Analysis: Act I, scene v...
"...most important, it introduces the idea of retributive justice, the notion that sin must be returned with punishment. Claudius has committed a sin, and now, to restore balance to the kingdom, the sin must be punished. The idea of retribution haunts and goads characters throughout the play, functioning as an important motivation for action..."

Hope that gives you some help. It'd be best to read the whole act with that in mind...I always found that good ol' Bill Shakespeare needs to be read aloud - you just miss too much by just looking at the words.

-J

Source(s):

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/section4.rhtml