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Hamlet: Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword - College Essay

Hamlet: Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword

It is commonly said that if you play too close with the fire, you are
going to get burned. This generally means that if you live a dangerous
lifestyle, then you will eventually falter and suffer the consequences. In
Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are many cases where characters are killed because
they lived a murderous lifestyle. Claudius murders his own brother and is then
murdered himself. Laertes kills Hamlet but is killed himself before Hamlet dies.
Hamlet murders Polonius and Laertes avenges his father by killing Hamlet. The
lives and deaths of these three individuals are inextricably interwoven. Their
destinies are forged by the others actions. To attempt to separate the life ...

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by a snake and died
from the venom. “The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the
crown.” (p 29) It is the perfect crime except that young Hamlet gets wind of
the evil deed from the ghost of his father. Hamlet is told that the only way to
put his father's soul to rest is to right the crime that was committed. So
Hamlet sets his sights on proving that Claudius murdered his father. Hamlet
devises an ingenious plan to trap Claudius. He rigs a play to portray the same
murder that Claudius commits. “You shall see anon how the murderer gets the
love of Gonzago's wife” (p 79) Claudius is very shaken by this and stops the
play. Later on, Hamlet is speaking to his mother and chasticizing her on her
inappropriate behavior. Polonius, Alert's father, is listening in on the
conversation from behind a large tapestry. When Polonius speaks, Hamlet send
his sword through the tapestry and kills the old man. Claudius and the queen
send Hamlet away. After many trials, Hamlet ...

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