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Interpretation of Themes in ‘Hamlet’
The play Hamlet remains William Shakespeare’s most popular play on stage and off-stage. As a play, “Hamlet portrays the doubts and fears of a conflicted prince whose dead father places the most burdensome of obligations on him: to avenge the king’s murder at the hand of his brother and Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who also marries the widowed queen, Gertrude” (652). Hamlet portrays the Prince’s unpretentious character as he attempts to find the truth about his father’s death and seek revenge. The Prince is weak and indecisive, and yet he also ...