After carefully examining his uncle's guilt throughout the play, Hamlet is convinced that the man who married his mother, his uncle and his new stepfather, killed his father and Finally, Hamlet's thirst for revenge pushes him to accidentally kill Polonius, Laertes' father. Although he let Claudius live thinking he was praying for redemption. Hamlet refuses to kill him because then he “goes to heaven” (Act 3, Scene 3, Line 2357) if he were to die while praying or in any other way that might give him some sort of redemption and decides to do so while he is “drunk in his sleep, or in his anger, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed" (Act 3, Scene 3, Line