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HAMLET, GENERALLY REGUARDED AS ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST TRAGEDIES, REPRESENTS A PROFOUND PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF A TORTURED AND COMPLEX PERSONALITY, ONE THAT IS THROWN IN TO A NETWORK OF CORRUPTION AND DECEIT FOUND IN THE MIDST OF HIS OWN FAMILY. TORTURED BY THE REALIZATION OF HIS UNCLE'S MURDEROUS NATURE, HAMLET SETS OUT TO AVENGE HIS FATHER'S DEATH ONLY TO DISCOVER THE TRAGEDY AND DEVISTATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY ATTEMPTING TO STEER FATE WITH HIS OWN HAND. ONE OF THE POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THIS PLAY'S OBVIOUS SUCCESS IS THE USE OF HAMLET'S CHARACTER TO EXEMPLIFY THE COMPLEX WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN MIND, WHICH GENERATES COUNTLESS DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF ITS MEANING. FOR IT IS THROUGH HAMLET'S STRUGGLE TO CONFRONT HIS INTERNAL DILEMMAS THAT THE READER BECOMES AWARE OF THE INFLUENCE THAT ONE'S STATE OF MIND CAN POSE ON A SITUATION. FOR EXAMPLE, THE APPEARANCE OF A GHOST IN THE FORM OF THE KING HAMLET SERVES AS AN INSTIGATOR IN HAMLET'S MENTAL DEMISE. BY MEETING WITH THE GHOST, HAMLET IS NOT ONLY PROHIBITED FROM SEVERING THE DESTRUCTIVE MENTAL TIES THAT BIND HIM TO HIS DECEASED FATHER, BUT ALSO SERVE TO FURTHER INTENSIFY HIS STATE OF MOURNING AND INSTABILITY. FORCED TO EMPATHIZE WITH THE GHOST, HA
ALL SAWS OF BOOKS, ALL FORMS, ALL PRESSURE PAST... THIS ABRUBT DISMISSAL OF THEIR COURTSHIP SERVES TO LAUNCH OPHELIA INTO A WHIRLWIND OF EMOTIONAL CONFUSION THAT ULTIMATELY DRIVES HER INTO THE DEPTHS OF INSANTIY FOR IT IS SHE, ATER HAMLET HAS GONE TO ENGLAND, WHO MOST PAINFULLY TAKES UP HIS ROLE AND ABSORBS HIS GRIEF TO THE POINT OF REAL MADNESS AND SUICIDE. ANOTHER TRAGIC EFFECT OF HAMLETS VENGEFUL PURPOSES ARE DERIVED FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF SEVERAL INNOCENT CHARACTERS NOT RELATED IN THE FORMER KING'S MURDER. FIRST, POLONIUS, SENT BY CLAUDIUS TO EAVESDROP IN THE QUEEN'S BEDCHAMBER, IS KILLED BY HAMLE'S SWORD WHEN HE IS MISTAKENLY THOUGHT TO BE THE KING HIDING BEHIND A SET OF CURTAINS. "BY THIS MISDEED, [HAMLET] TRIGGERS OFF A NEW CYCLE OF VENGEANCE, AND BY UNWITTINGLY KILLING POLONIUS, HAMLET UNWITTINGLY TAKES HIS OWN LIFE." SECONDLY, OPHELIA, DRIVEN MAD BY THE COMBINATION OF HER FATHER'S DEATH AND HAMLET'S PERSISTANT CRUELTY TOWARDS HER AFFECTIONS, IS DROWNED IN THE RIVER BY UNINTENTIONAL SUICIDE. THIRDLY, GIRTRUDE, CA! MLET'S OWN SOURCE OF DISTRESS IS THEN COUPLED WITH THE GRIEF OF HIS FATHER, "THUS ENJOINING HAMLET TO IDENTIFY WITH HIM IN HIS SORROW AND GIVE MURDEROUS PURPOSE TO HIS ANGER." UGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF CLAUDIUS' ENDEAVOR TO MURDER THE PRINCE, IS KILLED BY WAY OF A POISONOUS WINE GLASS MEANT FOR HAMLET. FOURTH, LAERTES, WHILE FUTILELY ATTEMPTING TO AVENGE HIS FATHER'S DEATH, IS SLAUGHTERED BY HIS OWN MEANS WHEN HE IS CUT BY THE POISONED TIP OF HIS OWN SWORD. AND FINALLY, HAMLET, IN HIS DELAY FOR S
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