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In William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark” Hamlet utters the well known quote “the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king”. This 4 page paper considers how plays are used to catch the conscience of different characters within this play. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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similar feeling or a memory act as triggers, not only of the event, but also for the emotions that are associated with an event, emotions that may have festered with
time to re-emerge stronger than their initial manifestation. The knowledge of this may have been the driving force behind Hamlet, when in Shakespeares tragedy "Hamlet; the Price of Denmark" he
seeks to gain revenge on his step father for the death of his father. The words the end the soliloquy at the end of Act II science ii indicate the
plan very clearly "the play s the thing Wherein Ill catch the conscience of the king" in looking at the play we can assess how true this is of plays
within he tragedy and how they catch the conscious of others. By looking at Hamlet there is the ability of the play to raise his own consciousness. Hamlet sees
the players and observed the way in which they display unprovoked emotions and make a comparison with his own inaction in response to his fathers murder. It is this that
can be seen to spur Hamlet into action, creating the scenario where the guilt at his won cowardice rises to the surface and forces him to become more active and
seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamlets soliloquy we see the envy for the actors who can have "tears in his eyes,
distraction in his aspect" (II, ii) as he displays grief. The actor is acknowledges as being only in a fiction, but is seen to still have a passion, and
this leads Hamlet to believe that had the scenario been real rather than fiction that would drown the stage with tears". This stirs guilt within Hamlet, and the impact on
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