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    I fear this will be the last thing I ever write. I’ve never been a superstitious man but I did enjoy reading about ghosts and the like but i've never really taken them seriously. However in this story that is not the case. I guess I should start with the beginning. The year is 2013, society has gotten their heads out and stopped worrying about the end of the world, but for me, it was the beginning of the end. When I was 14 I learned about this website called thefl!pside.net. It was a…

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    Analysis of Hamlet, however, indicates that revenge transitioned to become a moral duty in a society that initially opted against the establishment of said morals. In the text, the ghost of King Hamlet appears to his son and commands him to avenge his unnatural death. The ghost kings request shows that the creation of Hamlet compelled individuals to start focusing on the nature of the deaths of the author’s individuals, and to subsequently consider avenging the deaths society…

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    rest of the characters in a negative way. Tragic hero, an admirable person who has a character flaw that usually ends in suffering for everyone. To start, King Hamlet dies, and then Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, marries Claudius, her brother in law. The ghost of dead king Hamlet appears and informs Prince Hamlet that Claudius, his brother, killed him, hamlet then plots his revenge against Claudius. There are many songs that summarize the story of Hamlet, but three in particular by Garbage, Paul…

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    to Hamlet with utmost thoughtfulness and care. Even if his ideas conflicted those of Hamlet’s, Horatio isn’t scared to question Hamlet’s rash actions. This willingness is demonstrated when the ghost of king Hamlet appears and convinces Hamlet to confer with him in private. Horatio tries to break the ghosts momentary spell over Hamlet by stating, “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff…And there assume some horrible form/ Which might deprive your…

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    William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, revolves around revenge. Hamlet seeks retribution for his father’s death. His uncle, King Claudius, kills the old king and took his wife. Hamlet achieves this by feigning craziness and eventually killing Claudius and everyone else who got in his way. Besides Gertrude only one other woman appears in the play. The other woman of the play is Ophelia, daughter of Polonius. He is one of the King's most trusts men. Ophelia loves Hamlet which was forbidden since…

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    information about ghosts and spirits on the media, and in today's generation, many shows or articles about them. Whether or not you believe in them, I'm going to try and change your mind in this passage. The Forbidden City of Ancient China is indeed haunted and right now, I'm going to show you how and why that is possible. The Forbidden City in the 1400's was not a good place, especially when harsh emperors ruled and housed there for more than 300 years. If there was a place that had ghosts,…

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    vengeance seen in Hamlet is when the ghost of Old Hamlet requests that Hamlet avenge his death by murdering King Claudius, which turns into Hamlet acting out toward his mother, Gertrude, as a method of getting his own revenge, and finally Laertes, the Lord Chamberlain’s son, desiring reprisal against Hamlet. The death of Old King Hamlet prompted a…

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    the start his father came back to the castle as a ghost form to warn Hamlet of what happen to him and told him who had done this. He told him that his brother had poison him while he was sleeping and he want Hamlet to take revenge on him. So in Hamlet mind he want to make a change and have to prove that Claudius really killed his father. Hamlets plan is to pretend that hes crazy and spy on his uncle the king now.…

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    burden!” (III, I, 61-62) There is guilt in Claudius’s soliloquy for killing his brother, but only because he fears Hamlet can see through his fakeness. He is right to believe so because Hamlet, with his obsessive examination, becomes wary of the ghost being the manipulative devil, so he plans a play to be shown, mirroring the murder of his father. Meanwhile, suspicious of the disposition of Hamlet, Claudius acts as though he is a caring father figure asking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, “And…

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    Corruption In Hamlet

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    In act one scene four, Marcellus says, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (p. 27). What Marcellus did not know was that “something” was the new king. Claudius is the antagonist of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Hamlet. In the play, Claudius has just risen to power by corrupt means. He killed the former King Hamlet by way of poison, and then he married King Hamlet’s wife, Gertrude, soon after the funeral. The main character, King Hamlet’s son, knows of what Claudius…

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