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A 6 page research paper that examines Shakespeare's Hamlet from the perspective of crime fiction, a "whodunit," concentrating on the significance of the play within a play designed by Hamlet to show Claudius' guilt or innocence. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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of crime fiction, as this tragedy is profoundly concerned with the details of Hamlets fathers death. In other words, at its most basic level, it is a feudal "whodunit." The
following examination of Hamlet looks at the structure of the play from the perspective of crime fiction, i.e., issues of justice, crime detection and law enforcement. Hamlet begins with Hamlet
seeing his fathers ghost, who implores him to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25). The ghost informs Hamlet that his fathers death was
not accidental, but a murder planned and executed by his uncle. This presents Hamlet with a knotty problem. On the one hand, his vision could really be the specter of
his father and it could be telling the truth. On the other hand, what he saw could be a vision from the devil, designed to tempt him into sinning against
the innocent. In Act I, scene V, Hamlet voices his dilemma: "Angels and ministers of grace defend us! / Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damnd,/ Bring with
thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell." As this indicates, Hamlet does not know for certain if this is truly the spirit of his father speaking to him,
or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, which is that Hamlet has
simply gone mad. Before he acts, Hamlet wants to ensure that his uncle is guilty of his fathers murder. This intent provides the play with much of its action, as
Hamlet watches, eavesdrops and ponders a situation that veiled in layers of misrepresentation. The problem that Hamlet has to solve is, according to Lamb (2001), like a "chest game
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