In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the main character Hamlet vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of Claudius. ... After Hamlet expresses doubt in the Ghost, he conveys that he must take revenge but does not have the heart to do so when he says "That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell," (2.2.581-582). Hamlet then continues to comment on what he has been doing, "And thus the native hue of resolution/ Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought,/ And enterprises of great pith and moment/ With this regard t...

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