Hamlet’S Motives For Revenge Hamlet was a normal young prince, waiting and training to become king, but also wanting for his father to rule for a very long time. So when his father died Hamlet knew he had to been murdered. But that wasn’t enough to send Hamlet on a journey of revenge. In the other hand, the events that took place after the murder, were enough to send him to find the truth behind the actions of his loved ones at least when it came down to be blood relatives. Just two months after his father was killed, his uncle Claudius married his mother. For Hamlet this meant that his mother and the new king Claudius had to b