Throughout "Hamlet," Shakespeare gives us sharp literary images of death, decay, rot, and corruption. Imperfection is innate to the human condition and it is exemplified in "Hamlet." ... The intense personal relationship of Gertrude and Hamlet is constructed in a form in which Hamlet's fixation is provided little context, allowing for the development of speculative interpretations. ... This moral questioning is permeated in Hamlet through the protagonist's constant procrastination. Throughout his soliloquy, notions of mortality are subjectively expressed to support Hamlet's ni...

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In distinguished plays such as Hamlet, one can see traces of Kyd's influence in aspects like that of the Machiavellian character Claudius, Hamlet's play within a play, and the most obvious of all, the fact that Hamlet, in and of itself, is a "Revenge Tragedy". Undoubtedly, Kyd is the one whom these contributions have been relatively attributed to in the world of academia and in the institutionalized sphere of scholarly-based knowledge; however, in the real world--made up of the average human sponge that gathers their knowledge from less than scholarly sources-- Shakespeare ...

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