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A 6 page research paper that discusses how Shakespeare's Hamlet is such a complicated play that the Danish prince is caught in a quagmire of indecision, powerless to take action because he is not certain of anything. Also, he feels that he has no moral compass to aid in sorting out what he should do. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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confronted with the intellectual equivalent of a chess game, with innumerable possible moves (Lamb 13). This mental challenge is so complex as to leave the Danish prince for the
majority of the play in a quagmire of indecision, powerless to take action because he is not certain of anything. Furthermore, Hamlet feels that he has no moral compass because
of the degenerate nature of his world, which is symbolized by his mothers betrayal in her remarriage. Hamlets fathers ghost, or what appears to be his ghost, appears to
Hamlet on the castles parapet and implores Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25). The thought of taking revenge on the
man who is know the king is enough to make anyone pause, but, added to this, Hamlet has doubts about the origin of the ghost who has laid this injunction
on him. In Act I, scene V., lines 38-41, he states, "Angels and ministers of grace defend us! / Be though a spirit of health or goblin damnd,/ Bring
with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell." As this indicates, Hamlet has doubts as to whether the ghost he saw was truly the spirit of his deceased
father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. A question that
haunts the majority of the play pertains to how Hamlet can ascertain what is real. Consequently, much of the play concerns Hamlets efforts to determine the guilt or innocence of
King Claudius and his mother Gertrude. Hamlet devices a plan to test his uncles conscious with a representation of his guilty act. "Ill have these players/ Play something like
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