The Philosophical Hamlet

There are many subplots within the main plot of Hamlet. Old Hamlet, king of Denmark, has been murdered by his brother, Hamlet's uncle Claudius. Claudius has taken the throne and married Gertrude, the murdered Hamlet's wife. When young Hamlet returns from school and discovers his father has been murdered from an apparition, he sets about to avenge the death. He informs two guards and his friend Horatio what he is going to do, and that he will be playing mad. He repudiates his love Ophelia and then arranges for a play to be performed which concerns fratricide. The play is called "The Mousetrap." Mousetrap

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hristianity. Still, being responsible for the welfare of his people, he knows that a good king would want to rid the people of Denmark of the foul corruption lurking about in high places of administration. To not actively seek revenge might thrust his people over to the hands of a worse enemy. Therefore, is he a coward to remain passive or noble? This is his chief dilemma. A third course is still open to Hamlet in terms of how he may deal with finding revenge for the sake of his father and his people. He is very possibly contemplating the idea of suicide in the chief soliloquy. This is evident from the fact that Hamlet states that death may be more desirous than life, especially one with the heavy burden of wearing a crown, like his. In fact, Hamlet is so depressed about his current state of affairs, that he feels suicide would be a desirable alternative only if you could be certain that death brings total oblivion. Neither Hamlet or Shakespeare can know what the afterworld brings, so Shakespeare has Hamlet say death is desirable as an option only if the afterworld is nothing. If you were to be accountable for your actions in the afterworld, and here we have Hamlet being the modern man again, then Hamlet was against the
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