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What happens when Shakespeare uses the trinity as a mold for Hamlet

The causation of motive within Hamlet can be determined by observing the interaction with their fathers. What causes Hamlet to be motivated to exact revenge against his father's murderers? After all, it was not Hamlet that had would-be murderers following him in the beginning of the play. Though Hamlet was pondering the union of his mother and uncle to be a malicious one, he still had no clear knowledge of the past event that lead to his father's death. It was not until his ghost father told him of the murderous events that Hamlet took action against his uncle, et al. Warning Hamlet before he was to unfold the past, the ghost father says, "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear." From this point on Hamlet's mission is well defined. It is purely revenge.

The nature of the ghost father or, "Thy father's spirit" as he calls himself to Hamlet, is widely left up to the interpretation of performers and scholars. Is the ghost real or is it a figment of Hamlet's seemingly wide imagination? Hamlet's mother cannot see or hear the ghost in act 3 scene 4, but Marcellus, Horatio, and Barnardo do recognize the ghost as Hamlet's father in act 1. The only thing that matters for my argument is that there is an acknowledgement of a parental connection between the ghost and Hamlet.

The ghost is telling the truth. The events that he unfolds are steadfast in reality as we learn later in the play. Therefore, if the ghost is only his imagination then Hamlet is able to prophesy about the past. I do not think this characterization of Hamlet fits with anything else Shakespeare has written. Rather, I believe the nature of the ghost is that it indwells within Hamlet.

Hamlet is single-minded in his mission. He is the ghost of revenge. The metaphysical depth of the character Hamlet is overwhelming at times. I believe that the character of Hamlet is a mold of the structure and interaction of the Christian trinity itself. Hamlet is presented as son, father, and spirit. It is obvious that Shakespeare assumes that the characters in this play presuppose traditional Christian values. Hamlet would have had no qualms killing Claudius if he was not a good Catholic. Nevertheless, he does not kill him. In fact, his reaction to Claudius's private repentance is utter dismay over the fact that he did the only thing that could have stopped Hamlet from killing him.

The interaction between Hamlet and his father is very mysterious by nature. Hamlet is alive and his father is a ghost. I must catch myself and say that I do not think that Shakespeare is trying to emulate or explain the nature of the Christian trinity. He is merely molding his character Hamlet around the structure of a single character being three things at once. This concept of three in one can only be draw from Trinitarian theology since it is not present in any other explanation of existence. Likewise, the concept of a monotheistic trinity can only be found in Christian theology. I think Shakespeare understood the amount of mystery that such a concept would bring to a character and masterfully molded one of his most complex characters around it; mysteries that even Shakespeare could not explain.

What I am not saying is that Shakespeare understood the mysteries of the trinity. Rather, he knew that If he used a concept that was as profound as the trinity to mold Hamlet around, the mysteries would occur naturally. He understood that there was unknown mystery in the Trinitarian theology and he wanted to use it to write a truly horrifying and bloody tragedy.

Hamlet's steadfastness to keep a vendetta with his father's enemies points toward the ghost and son to become one. The father indwells in Hamlet making the house a castle of ghostly revenge. It is truly creepy how much blood is spilled in the name of revenge." Hamlet is right up there as the scariest story I have ever read with King Lear and Macbeth.

Let's pull back even further from the play. In Hamlet you have a Father imposing or working out his will (revenge) unto his enemies through his son. But, the father's will is only able to be imposed or work out because his spirit has revealed the truth. Come on. This is blatant use of Trinitarian structure. Now, read Hamlet again and it all makes sense. I hope at least.