Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet," consists of three important families with three young men who had lost their beloved fathers in tragic deaths. Each son in the play seeks vengeance for their fathers murder. Their fathers were each killed by a family member within the triangle of families. The three pairs of fathers and sons in this play were apart of these three families: the family of King Fortinbras, the family of King Hamlet, and the family of Polonius. Now King Hamlet, who was young Hamlets father killed King Fortinbras to seize the land that Fortinbras owned and young Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius who was Laertes’s father. Within Hamlet the theme of revenge is quite visible and these deaths were the reason for such hatred and revenge. However the way each son made their vengeance was different from one another. Fortinbras, Laertes, and Hamlet are similar in the fact that each son had respected and loved their fathers. They loved them enough to have made an attempt to bestow revenge upon the man who killed their father, even at the risk of their own freedom, reputation and lives. Each one of their fathers had a significant high social class within a respective country, giving them high classes as well. With Hamlet and Fortinbras both being princes and Laertes a son of an aristocrat who had high regard in the Danish court, they had a lot to lose in unsuccessful with their plans. The sons all believed that their fathers killer had dishonored them and their fathers. They act in a way that they thought would restore their family with what had occurred. In the first scene, Horatio explained how King Fortinbras of Norway had died honorably in combat against King Hamlet of Denmark and how he “Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, to our most valiant brother” Shakespeare, Hamlet, (act 1, 2, Line 24-25). Both men were courageous kings who would put themselves at risk instead of their kingdoms to settle their differences and avoid war. King Hamlet then after claimed the land that had belonged to King Fortinbras. This creat