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A 5 page essay that analyzes what propels Hamlet to action. The writer argues that it is far harder to coldly and rationally enact revenge after the fact than when a misdeed first occurs and the blood runs hot to seek justice, regardless of the consequences. For Hamlet, however, "outrageous fortune" has conspired to present him with the task of revenge, but within a context when Hamlet is well aware of all consequences and does not have the heat of passion to help him with his task. The fact that Hamlet is quagmired in doubt and self-reflection throughout most of the play, and acts only when circumstances ignite his emotions suggests that Shakespeare intended the audience to perceive violence as something that requires an emotional response from a good man. No additional sources cited.
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Claudius, as the ghost of his father has instructed him to do. The Player King says, "What to ourselves in passion we propose,/ The passion ending, doth the purpose lose"
(III.2.204-205). As these lines suggest, revenge is something that is easily considered in the heat of passion, but, once that passion has abated, the purpose for the revenge seems also
to be lost. This passage addresses a fundamental reality--one that plagues Hamlet throughout the play--which is that it is far harder to coldly and rationally enact revenge after
the fact than when a misdeed first occurs and the blood runs hot to seek justice, regardless of the consequences. For Hamlet, however, "outrageous fortune" has conspired to present him
with the task of revenge, but within a context when Hamlet is well aware of all consequences and does not have the heat of passion to help him with his
task. The fact that Hamlet is quagmired in doubt and self-reflection throughout most of the play, and acts only when circumstances ignite his emotions suggests that Shakespeare intended the audience
to perceive violence as something that requires an emotional response from a good man. Unlike Claudius, who cold-bloodedly murdered a man in his sleep, Hamlet cannot bring himself to commit
violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morality of the revenge demanded by
his fathers ghost, who implores him to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (I.5.25). While considering an act of regicide against the current king is traumatic in itself, Hamlet
rationally considers what may be the true nature of the ghost. In Act I, scene 5, Hamlet considers whether or not the ghost is truly the spirit of his father,
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