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In seven pages this paper examines the relationship between Prince Hamlet of Denmark and his murdered father, and how his life is affected by his father in William Shakespeare’s tragic play. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGhamdad.rtf
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March 2010 -- properly! King Hamlet of Denmark is already dead at the beginning of William Shakespeares greatest tragedy.
Yet, his presence is strong throughout the course of the play because even in death he continues to exert a powerful influence over his 30-year-old son. Prince Hamlet
is, after all, his fathers namesake and has been groomed from the day he was born to follow in the monarchs footsteps. But Hamlet Jr. is not the strong
and charismatic leader his father was. While his father was ruling Denmark with an iron fist and managing territorial wars, his son was in the secure confines of Elsinore
Castle bonding with his doting mother Queen Gertrude. The young Prince was introverted and had little interest in public affairs. His father was a healthy, virile, and extremely
capable ruler; Hamlet would not have to concern himself with any of that until his succession, which would be many years away. Or, so Hamlet thought. The poisoning
death of King Hamlet was the most traumatic event in his sons life, which was compounded by Gertrudes remarriage (to her husbands brother no less) a mere three months later.
Hamlet has been shattered by his loss and his mothers betrayal, and plunges into a period of deep mourning. Every action he takes from that moment on is
somehow affected by his father - how to best honor his memory and Hamlets desire to live up to his fathers weighty expectations. Most Shakespearean scholars would agree that Prince
Hamlet was a mamas boy, "bathed in the love of his mother" (De-Yan 92). Claudius would observe of Gertrude, "The Queen his mother / Lives almost by his looks"
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