I feel thankful for old King Hamlet and his brother's service to this nation, but I also feel sorry for their deaths. Although my father, the old King of Norway, was killed by the old King Hamlet, now, it's time to stop the endless revenge, and everyone of them has come to their destiny. In order to avoid such tragedies in the future, and to build this nation more powerful, we'll reform the ministries of government. Denmark was once a leading country in north Europe under the rule of old King Hamlet's. ... I really admired the old king Hamlet's great achievements, an...

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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. ... Driven mad with grief, Laertes is prepared to kill Hamlet in any way possible and makes a 'fool proof' plan of action with the k...

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(Act III, SCENE iii, page 133, l. 73-79) At that time Catholics (the majority of Europeans) believed that there were four places a soul could go once it had left the body: Heaven, Hell, Limbo, and Purgatory. ... Her future life would be only death. ... The King, because of his ambitions, dies and Hamlet accomplished his revenge. ... Hamlet changes Claudius" letter, instructing the King of England to kill them. ... "That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once" (Act V, scene i, page 193, l.69) "Why, e"en so. ...

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The King and Queen had been leery of Hamlet after their marriage, but when Polonius confronted them with the notion of Hamlet's madness, it confirmed their suspicions. ... The King and Queen called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet who was easily persuaded to do so by bribery of money. ... The two, during the were shown to never be apart, and are only apart once in the play, which just goes to show their lack of identity. ... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern gave Hamlet the foresight into the future of himself and of the others in the play, and they helped display the corruption ...

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The nation of Denmark, blameless in the King's death, suffers heavily. ... The "Garden" can only be reborn once the evil (Claudius) is eliminated. ... Her fate is the future of Denmark, if the rottenness is not wiped out. ... Once Hamlet kills Polonius, he is no longer the grieved party "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (Ivv67). ... Death, decay, and disease no longer control Denmark's future and Hamlet is able to die in peace. ...

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More than once during William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the title character reflects upon his own character and ponders the problem that he, of all people, is a coward. ... However, Hamlet backs away from revenge until he is able to pinpoint the king's guilt, trapping the king in the "Play Within the Play," in which Hamlet exclaims, "I'll have grounds/ More relative than this: the play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." (2.2.608-610) Hamlet does not respond decisively to his father's orders, as Fortinbras would, and in Act IV Hamlet e...

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Another aspect, underlining his credibility becomes obvious in Hamlet's plan to catch the King. ... In his first attempt to convince Hamlet about the ghost's very nature, he said, he saw Hamlet's father "once" (1.2.186). Then only a few lines later he states that he can identify the Old King as good as his own "hands" (1.2.212). ... But once he has seen it, he is not afraid to face it and persuade it to "speak" (1.1.139) about Denmark's future. ...

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When the king denies her brother a proper burial and makes it illegal for anyone to bury him in Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone decides it is up to her to take justice into her own hands and give him a proper burial. ... Once again, it is important not to interpret that as a weakness in Hwang's writing, but as another perspective on how to tell the reader about the secrets. ... "To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. ...

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Asking himself deep questions, for instance, is it an un-Christian act to take revenge or is it a matter that should be left to the judgment of God, like Gertrude's actions which the ghost of King Hamlet asked to be left to God. ... He compares Claudius and King Hamlet and throughout this speech Hamlet confronts Gertrude with her own sexuality, "since frost itself as actively doth burn". ... Eventually he does kill the King because he has killed Gertrude and attempted to kill Hamlet. ...

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