When Horatio is called to witness something extraordinary-the appearing of a ghost that's form is remarkably like the late king of Denmark, Hamlet Sr., the present king's late brother, and Hamlet's father-Horatio becomes suspicious: the king's phantom appeared in full armor, as if to go off to war, and with a face of "countenance more in sorrow than anger" (1. 2. 247.) as if he was looking for someone who wasn't there. ... Intrigued-and a little scared, (though he would never mention that)-Horatio convinces the two guards he accompanied on their watch to brin...

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The protagonist was constantly making excuses to the detainment of his revenge on King Claudius for his father. ... And the reason was none-other-than the remarriage of Gertrude, his mother, to his uncle, Claudius, within a month after King Hamlet's death. The younger prince, who returned to Denmark for his father's funeral was shocked as the news unveiled before him. ... Perhaps Hamlet was exhausted from living an unbearable life plagued with agonizing responsibility, especially when his deceased father appeared and appointed him to carry out a revenge on the villainous Claudius....

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Now, Fortinbras' rise to power in the kingdom of Denmark, immediately following the close of the curtain in this play, is purely speculation. ... Fortinbras now has control over the kingdom, as Hamlet's dying wish was to let Fortinbras be king. ... Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Claudius, on the other hand, are completely and unequivocally slaves to their passions, and they all end up dead. ...

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