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After he has had time to think, Hamlet realises what must be done, he must murder his uncle. He has no qualms about the target of the act but the fact that he belongs to the Christian world means that to appease his father's ghost he must move to the heroic world, thus contradicting the morals and teachings of his Christian upbringing...
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The play is a re-enactment of the murder of his father so that when Claudius saw the murder scene he would hopefully react to it in some way, and in doing so prove his implication in King Hamlet's death. Secondly, Hamlet had to fall again to the Machiavellian world by deceiving Guildenstern and Rozencrantz, which inevitably meant their demise so as to save himself from Claudius' plan...
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Hamlet-justice Hamlet has to figure out what is true and what is not, he does know that he has to find the truth out, proof of what the ghost told him. "Murder most foul, as in the best it is, but this most strange and unnatural...	1 / 196
Hamlet - King Claudius Even when Hamlet walks in on Claudius while praying, you could tell that he was only partially sorry because it had to be his brother but not sorry for doing it overall...	2 / 406
Personality Traits Of Hamlet It is obvious that Hamlet is depressed in this play. His depression can be seen in Act I scene II lines 129-132, when Hamlet says: "O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!" In these lines Hamlet says that he would like to commit suicide, but cannot because of the way suicide is looked upon in god's eyes...	2 / 469
Personality Traits Of Hamlet It is obvious that Hamlet is depressed in this play. His depression can be seen in Act I scene II lines 129-132, when Hamlet says: "O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!" In these lines Hamlet says that he would like to commit suicide, but cannot because of the way suicide is looked upon in god's eyes...	2 / 469
Hamlet Even though the ghost appears a few times during the play he sets the major plot of this revenge tragedy. The ghost first appears to Horatio before he meets with his own son...	2 / 492
Hamlet Hamlet delays in killing his uncle not only because he might feel guilty, but because he want's to prove to everyone that King Claudius is in fact the murderer...	2 / 412
Hamlet "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Shakespear, 67). In the beginning of Hamlet this is said to represent what has happened and what will happen and how it is slowly destroying Denmark...	3 / 593