"Hamlet" Essay on Revenge.

"If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him." Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (I, ii)(1) Once upon a time, there lived humans who lived in caves, and used sticks and rocks as tools. During this time, there was no need for complex human emotion, or higher level thinking, just the pure, and raw will to live. The law of the land was based on …

…and that justice is served warmly. Shakespeare's theories of human nature involved the facts that themes like revenge are ever-present in society, and they are the reason that humans act the way they act sometimes. A problem always starts out small, and ends up bigger than it was before. The result is something horrific, and terrible which is a cause of all the negative feelings, and ill wishes of those who seek revenge in life.