Background of the Study

I. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Hatred is an angry feeling of extreme dislike for someone or something. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 1995:653. Meanwhile in Merriam-Websters collegiate dictionary, hatred is extremely strong word, but it often slips off out tongue without thinking that it might offend someone. Moreover Davis defines hatred as “crimes that manifest prejudice based on certain group characteristics”. From all the definition, it can be concluded that hatred is the form of an expression that makes people dislike someone or something. Hatred is also depicted in hate speech by statement of person, in the same manner said by Walker www.123helpme.comview.asp?id=11486 that hate speech includes any form of expression deemed offensive to any racial, religious, ethnic or national group. Such a feeling, for sure, can only give more troubles and create difficulties for us. Besides, it is absolutely true that everyone must have this feeling whether little or much. The huge hatred feeling will force someone to commit negative conducts. Furthermore hatred can cause killing. According to Gordon Witkin and Jeannye Thornton, it happened to a couple in United States, a lady killed and cut open a pregnant woman named Theresa Andrews, and she took her baby and claimed it hers. She did the action caused hatred and jealousy to that woman. She can not accept that her husband impregnated that woman. Universitas Sumatera Utara So when a person possesses a strong feeling of hatred, then heshe will tend to do anything necessary to make the one heshe hates suffer. This is the major target. When heshe obtains hisher intention, then she will find satisfaction. It has always been hard for anyone to part hatred in hisher life as heshe has been gifted with two different contrast feeling, hate and love. People will do anything needed to make anyone being his target suffer and obtain hisher satisfaction Hamlet’s hatred is found in theme of Hamlet’s play that is vengeance. This vengeance does not only have to do with Hamlet himself but is also illustrated in all important characters of the play. All of these characters are faced with the problem of having to avenge their nemesis who had previously hurt their family or their familys name. From this theme, I can conclude that there is hatred in Hamlet’s play. And because that, why I am interested to analyzing Hamlet.

1.2 Scope of the Study