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Bringing Murderers to Justice in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” A 3 page paper which examines specific sections of dialogue from each play and considers how these words bring sychological, moral, or philosophical complexity to the notion of bringing murderers to justice. No additional sources are used.
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the crime. But this only ever happens without fail in a perfect world. Unfortunately, however, the process of bringing murderers to justice is often as flawed as the
humans that developed the criminal system that seeks it. When there is a miscarriage of justice because of race, status, or gender, sometimes it is left to others to
preside over a kind of vigilante justice that extends beyond legal and social parameters, but is nevertheless just. This is exactly what occurs in William Shakespeares The Tragedy of
Hamlet and in Susan Glaspells Trifles, in which a murderer has been committed but either the person responsible may go unpunished or be denied a fair trial. Characters in
these respective plays take it upon themselves to pursue justice, and their efforts, which have psychological, moral, and philosophical complexities, can best be understood through the examination of specific lines
of dialogue. In Shakespeares Hamlet, Prince Hamlet of Denmark was understandably devastated by the fact that within a three-month period his father had been murdered and his mother Queen Gertrude
married the Kings brother, her brother-in-law, Claudius, who promptly took his brothers place on the throne and in his wifes bed. When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with
what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost promptly declares, "Now, Hamlet, hear. / Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, / A
serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark / Is by a forged process of my death / Rankly abusd. But know, thou noble youth, / The
serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown" (I.v.39-45). Suddenly, Hamlet has been plunged out of mourning and jolted into action. It is not
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