What are the major conflicts in Hamlet?

What were the types of conflicts that were going on in Hamlet?

• Answer:

  There are many conflicts within Hamlet. Some of them were minor, such as when Fortinbras wanted to attach the Kingdom of Denmark (physical or man vs. man). However, the main and most important conflicts were the internal family conflicts within both Hamlet's family and in Ophelia's family: the murder of Old King Hamlet by his own brother, Hamlet's struggle for revenge and the psychological factor/struggle for both Claudius and Hamlet to kill the other first (it was a mind game for them/they were throughout the play trying to outdo the other). Another conflict was the Laertes and his father's murder (committed by Hamlet).