King Hamlet tells his son he has been murdered by his brother Claudius, "cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head" and is now condemned to purgatory. ... This is too late and too messy an act of vengeance to provide the sense of relief found in most revenge tragedies, plus, Hamlet's killing of Claudius happens more by chance than as a direct result of any plot or plan of his own. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate