ABSTRACT
Hamlet is asked to avenge his father's murder. He hesitates somewhat, not a very long time. It seems so long because of everything that goes on inside him. W. Shakespeare creates a sense of inner monologue that runs throughout the dialogues of the play. It is psychic time that seems so long, an underlying counterpoint to external events and linear time. The play is drenched in subjective depths that seem to last forever. Revenge stretches over time. An inner meaning of revenge ethics is: one tries to right things, redress an injury, right a wrong. Revenge is on the side of some kind of sense of justice, an affective attitude that has pervaded much religion. Revenge takes place in an aura of magnification. Pain and blood and wounds and rage are acutely magnified. It plays on the sense of being wronged, the need to right things, to blot out disturbance.
