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assirouba
assirouba
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College - Sophomore

In one sentence, what is the general idea of the play Hamlet?

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Posted by assirouba on Sunday September 16, 2007 at 10:59 AM and tagged with themes.


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  1. arjun Teacher
    College - Senior

    The general idea of Hamlet is to take revenge of his father`s death from his uncle and to prove himself a prestigous son.

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    Posted by arjun on Sunday September 16, 2007 at 11:15 AM

  2. arjun50
    arjun50 Teacher
    College - Senior

    The general idea of Hamlet is to get rid of deep shocks by taking avenge of his father from his serpent uncle who is murderer and a wolf in sheep clothes.

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    Posted by arjun50 on Wednesday September 19, 2007 at 8:30 AM

  3. kudev
    kudev Student
    Vocational

    Hamlet seeks the objective truth of his new situation, believing he has been wrongly overturned from being the Prince/heir to the throne,though his apprehensions puts him in a treasonous position, he perseveres craftily, even after having moral proof, to obtain general objective evidence,  in the last scene when Laertes states the King is responsible, even after an interlude when the court, calling 'Treason' , does not make it clear if they mean Hamlet's stabbing of Claudius with the poisoned foil, or Claudius' preparing both it and the poisoned cup which kills Gertrude. At his death, he is vindicated, but he knew the game was very dangerous.

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    Posted by kudev on Monday May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM

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