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    Many unfortunate scenarios happen in Hamlet that has shocked many readers for generations. Shakespeare's use of words and story-telling makes it easy to convey human emotion and action that come back to determine their morality in these stories. Hamlet, the main character, is faced with many complications in his life from when he was a child to when the story takes place. It’s hard to determine when he completely lost his cool, but it is easy however to follow the timeline in which things happen…

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    father’s death and his mother’s betrayal. However, once he overcomes his personal conflicts, Hamlet uses his ‘madness’ as an act to distract and disguise his true motive for revenge. After Hamlet has discovered the truth about his father from the Ghost, he goes through a very traumatic period, which is interpreted as madness by the other characters. With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a state in which "the uses of…

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    He was torn in an internal battle between what was right and what he desired. Discovering from his father’s ghost that his uncle Claudius had killed his father, Hamlet was filled with rage. His anger encouraged him to seek revenge by killing Claudius. However, he later suspected that the ghost could be a demon who was trying to trick him into sinning. This internal conflict caused him to procrastinate his plan of revenge. Teenagers today face similar…

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    Hamlet by William Shakespeare, in the Elizabethan Era, is a ple may that is expressed with many themes. Hamlet, the main character, battles with tragic the death of his father and the marriage of his mother and uncle. Hamlet is then approached by a ghost that closely resembles his father and reveals the murder of the late king. Hamlet then goes on a quest for revenge, hesitating at every turn and pretending to have gone mad. He spends time rejecting the love of Ophelia until her untimely death.…

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    Why Is Hamlet Wrong

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    There are instances in this play that makes Hamlet feel obligated to carry out retribution in the best way. To avenge his idolized father’s death. “I am thy father’s spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night…” Hamlet’s father appears as a ghost upon the platform of castle Elsinore. In their encounter, he reveals to his son. Hamlet…

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    When we first see Hamlet in the story he is just a grieving son. He is a promising, scholarly young man who has just lost his father. This loss grips his heart hard. The descent begins when the ghost of his father, King Hamlet appears to him. The ghost tells him that his father did not just simply die, he was murdered. Hamlet is told the hand that committed the deed is now the king of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. Hamlet’s heart begins to stir with thoughts of anger…

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    his original home. His mortal family was murdered by the man Jack who later reappears in the novel as Mr. Jack Frost. Bod escaped his home that night and walked to the graveyard where he was given protection by some of the ghosts there after having a brief encounter with the ghost of Bod’s mother. Bod’s main caregivers in the graveyard are Mr. and Mrs. Owens, along with a tall, pale-skinned being named Silas. It is never stated exactly what Silas is, only giving hints about what he may be. Bod…

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    Comparing and Contrasting The Lion King to Hamlet The Lion King is a direct run off of the play Hamlet. Though The Lion King was based off the play, there are still differences. The way Hamlet handles his father’s death varies differently from the way that Simba handles his Father’s death. There are also similarities. The similarities are the most evident in how the characters die in these two works. It is so interesting to know that The Lion King is based on the play Hamlet! Though they…

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    doing so went against God, and developed hatred toward both Claudius and his mother when he was ordered to allow his duty to “taint” his mind (131). Analyses of Hamlet view Hamlet as a tragic hero, one that is compelled to follow the demands of the ghost, or even the expectations of God, but fails to do so.” (J. Treman, 2013). This is an example of one of the moral dilemmas that Hamlet was faced with, after he kills Polonius, he doesn’t stop there, his rage was so strong that he wouldn 't stop…

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    We see the three witches who look into the future and predict that Macbeth will become king of Scotland. In the play “Hamlet” the supernatural scene is shown a little further into the first scene. Hamlet sees his father's ghost. In both cases, Macbeth and Hamlet are not sure that they should believe in what they have been told of the supernatural creatures, and they both choose to have it confirmed by searching for evidence. Macbeth chooses to believe the three witches’ prophecy…

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