Throughout the play Hamlet, Hamlet only cares about his own misery happening in his life without thinking about the other people's problems and causing them to suffer. ... An example of a life he took was Polonius's. ... After a while he decides to go back to mother to discuss to her about her wedding and pretended like nothing happened because he has to avoid the unnecessary deaths and he forgets all about Ophelia so he can just get revenge. ... Ophelia was self-destructed due to the death of her father, which was caused by Hamlet. ... Hamlet is angry with her because she has marrie...

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Hamlet is quick to decide on the moral repugnance of his mother's decision to marry his Uncle just a few months after the death of his father. ... Hamlet's nobility and decency are not diminished by his inability to take immediate revenge, but his rash and impulsive actions in slaying Polonius and arranging the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do affect an analysis of the nobility of his character. ... Hamlet's decision to send his to boyhood friends to their death represents one of the many and bizarre contradictions in his character. ... Horratio's affirmation of Ha...

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Though morals do play a significant role in Hamlet's life, the audience doesn't feel as though Hamlet is of higher than ordinary moral worth. ... Like any other tragic hero, Hamlet possesses that tragic flaw that ultimately results in his death. ... Though fairly understandably, Hamlet was unable to stop grieving over his father's death for a long time, unable to move past this part of his life. ... After acquiring this evidence he then tried to find moral answers, delaying even further. Even after he was sure of Claudius's guilt he remained in his state of feigned insa...

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Hamlet considers ending the torture of his life. ... Stoppard transforms Hamlet's speech about death into a number of different ideas in his play. ... He reaches Hamlets conclusion that life must be preferable to death, and says, -Life in a box is better than no life at all, d expect. ... Yet one idea about death changes from Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. The portrayal of death in Shakepeares Hamlet involves violence, blood, poisoning and duels, which is a stark contrast to Stoppard's image of death as simply an absence. ...

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my life, 1.1.169-171)although a courtier should have gone directly to the king. ... Later they meet near a graveyard and, as the sight of skulls being thrown about by the gravedigger leads Hamlet back into morbid reflections on death and decomposition, but even here Horatio helps him ("Twere to ... consider so... After Ophelia's funereal they talked for a while, Hamlet talks about Claudius and his own order for the execution of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz ( "Why, even [...] go to't", 5.1.48-55). ... With his death, Horatio takes control of his events. Out of all these things it ...

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Man's ability to take action is an individual's willingness to accept responsibility for his actions and take control of his life. ... Death in Hamlet is given significance and value due to Elizabethan society's strong ties to religion. The uncertainty of the afterlife made the death mysterious, but also greatly feared. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, however, since life is seen as purposeless and directionless, death is seen as rather insignificant. The value of life after the Second World War was questioned and eventually lost. ...

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