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A Letter to Hamlet

The recent loss of your father and spectacular revelation that his brother, the very uncle who married your mother, is responsible for his murder has thrown your world into near madness. Thomas Marc Perrot (135) maintains you are a perfect example of what can happen to a "very young" man who sees his entire support system "disintegrate" within a "single moment." Your youth confuses you as you confront the death of your father and its implications. You believe your life is not worth "a pin's fee" and seem suicidal in your detachment from others and the world you view as a "goodly" prison, "Denmark being one of the worst" (Shakespeare 1076; 1084). Although your father's death and the circumstances surrounding and unfolding from it are sufficient cause of grief and despair in anyone, you are Divine as the presumptive heir to the throne of Denmark and must abandon any thoughts of suicide.

The revelation that your uncle Claudius killed your father and married your mother has turned your world upside down. Because of these actions, Muir and Schoenbaum (66) believe you are "forced to face" the truth of your father's death and your "own willingness to accept that death." This is a tale order for any young man Hamlet, but you must not give in to despair. You have argued that no course of action can harm your soul, "for my soul, what can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as itself" (Shakespeare 1076). However dear Hamlet, your soul can only find its rightful place in the kingdom of Heaven if you reject any notion of suicide.

In this, your darkest hour, you must embrace faith in God, recognize as future king you are divine in nature, and permit God's will to be done. Instead, you continue to self-analyze and worry yourself until you are forlorn and ready to give up hope. You must embrace a more Christian view dear Hamlet. We see this is problematic for you. "Promoted to my revenge by heaven and he...

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