Discuss whether Hamlet is made cruel and inhumane by his thoughts of revenge throughout the play and without redemption from his "vicious"...

While Hamlet recognizes the value of tradition, displaying
courage in meeting with the ghost and in repelling the restraints of his friends who
would hold him back, he feels no reverence for tradition. Tradition is in the essence of
humanity, and Hamlet finds humanity repugnant.  In fact, it seems that his focus is more
upon the reprehensible behavior of the court in Elsinore.  For instance, when he
approaches his mother  on the urgings of the ghost to tell her of his murder and to put
an end to the  unholy offense of the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, Hamlet
neglects to mention the murder of his father, instead chiding his mother for her sexual
corruption.  (His father's ghost has to appear to remind him to get to the
point.)

Thus, it seems that at first Hamlet's "vicious
passion" is focused on this sexual corruption, rather than revenge for his father's
murder. Critic Rebecca West in her "The Nature of Will" contends that Ophelia is "no
correct and timid virgin of equisite sensibilities,"  or she would not have tolerated
Hamlet's obscene conversations.  On the contrary, Ophelia is a disreptutable woman. 
And, no innocent young woman would agree so easily to the disingenuousness of Polonius's
dealings with her.  Yet, when Ophelia dies, not as a result of suicide, but as an
accident, as Gerturde observes, Hamlet recognizes how the corrupt court of Denmark has
exploited Ophelia, driving her to madness and a fateful end.  It is in this graveyard
scene that Hamlet's character changes.  In the Act V, Hamlet has his moment of truth as
he declares himself "Hamlet the Dane" and declares
that

There's a
divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will
(5.2.10-11)

He, then, assumes
responsibility for his country which must be rid of its terrible corruption.  After he
slays Laertes and names the "delicate and tender prince," Fortinbras his successor,
Hamet is absolved of his "vicious passions," for he has acted for the good and moral
beauty--a high ideal--of his country in ridding it of his corrupt court which includes
Claudius.