Throughout the play, Hamlet experiences an immense amount of anger due to the circumstances in his life. ... Hamlet is very much enraged at his mother for marrying too soon after his father's death, and when she approaches that subject she says it was common for people to die, he responds, "Ay, madam, it is common (I ii 76)." ... "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal -- except my life, except my life, except my life (II ii 233-235)." ... Hamlet's father's death builds up too much grief in Hamlet that his sorrow makes him contemplate suici...

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Hamlet at this point in his life is going through great difficulty trying to cope with his father's murder and his mother's quick marriage to his uncle. ... The entire famous soliloquy, "to be or not to be :" is already a complete contrast to the second, for it is far more logic and calmer and Hamlet throughout can be described as a reflective philosopher, expressing his thoughts on fundamental questions on life and death, which is different to the previous where there role of the revenger, thinker/questioning and self critic come through. ... Hamlets age is open to interpretation; h...

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Oedipus, Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello "or Willy Loman. ... "It is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. ... Death of a Salesman follows this rubric in that Willy Loman loses his son's respect (reversal) after making the mistake of having an affair (hamartia). ... In the case of Death of a Salesman, Miller is .. ... Thus he wreaks havoc on his own life and that of his family. ...

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