King Hamlet's ghost says to his son, "if thou didst ever thy dear father love" then he needed to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." ... Religion has an extreme influence on literature of that time, thus transfusing through the plays and impacting the characters themselves. ... The back-and-forth of the rationale in this mental debate is showing a sane mindset, suggesting that Hamlet's main goal is to avenge his father for a moral sake rather than by committing an impulsive revenge. ... A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to ...

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