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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak; gone insane if he hadn't attempted to deceive the world and himself? "The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."( Francis Bacon, English philosopher, "Of Simulation and Dissimulation") The second reason was the reason Hamlet could not make up his mind, a simple statement of his intent to avenge his father's death would have left only the choice that he vowed to take. The main problem that Hamlet had to overcome was the web of deceit that everyone in the play seemed to be weaving, when ever it appeared the web would fall apart a new deceit would come into the play.
"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."( Christopher Hampton, British playwright. Merteuil, in Dangerous Liaisons) Hamlet deceives people, making them think he is crazy. He realizes he cannot stand aside, so he must either win the game of deceit or die. He, however, went through the solving of his problem. Fortinbras, however, assumed the principle of win or die, he would either avenge his father or die. Hamlet tried to win without risking death, he was not ready to risk his life to avenge his father. Looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, To fust in us unused." (Hamlet, act 4, sc. 4) This quote expresses Hamlet's contempt for people who don't use their reason and allow it to become old. "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoisted with his own petard." (Hamlet, act 3, sc. 4) This quote from Hamlet's soliloquy about deceiving a deceiver, Claudius. Hamlet says it is best when you beat your opponent at their own game. This play is the expression of decei
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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