7 Deadly Sins In Hamlet

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In the many tragitys of William Shakespeare, such as King Lear, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet the seven deadly sins are ever present. In particular the play Hamlets being the sin wrath. The hole play is based of the grounds that violence begets violence and that bloody revenge is justified.
The hole events of the play are set off by Claudius killing Hamlets father in the beginning and Hamlet then The King coming back from the dead to ask Hamlet to avenge him. “So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.” Because his brother killed him buy poured poison in his ear. The hamlet decides he is going to pretend he in insane in-order to put his uncle on edge so its easier to kill him.
In Hamlets defense he does stop and ask it the Ghost really is his father and not the Devil “May be a devil, and the devil hath power T’ assume a pleasing shape”, wondering if this is all a trick by Satan to send him to hell. But them he starts to think
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He gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a letter telling the king to do this but Hamlet finds it and rewrites it so that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern get hanged. (Yaay more murder.) 'Also did I mention they invaded Poland' Laertes returns to finds out his dad is dead and his sister is now completely mad. Makes a plan with Claudius to kill Hamlet. They set up a dual between the two but Laertes sword will be real and it will be poisoned AND if that wasn’t enough Claudius will give Hamlet a poisoned glass of whine. 'Also I forgot to mention Ophelia kills herself' They have the dual Gertude not in on the joke and drinks the poisoned whine meant for Hamlet dies, then Laertes stabes hamlet with the poison sword, the Hamlet takes the sword stabs Laertes, Laertes spills the beans and tells Hamlet the plan. Hamlet then kills Claudius, then dying himself succumbing to the poison, completing the cycle leaving only Horatio

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