with God’s message from the ghost, [proved as being a “spirit of health” not “goblin damned” (I, iv), by Claudius’s reaction to the play that shall prick his conscience, “Lights!” (III, ii)] Hamlet is supposed to “Leave [mother] to Heaven” (I, v). Hamlet forgets this part of the plan as he erupts in a not so casual disapproval, “You go not till I set you up a glass...And let me wring your heart” (III, iv) suggesting he’ll call her on her actions himself. Hamlet also deviates from God’s plan when he doesn’t kill Claudius because he may send him to Heaven. He waits to kill and says, “Then trip him, that his hells may kick at Heaven/And that his soul may be as damned and black/As Hell, whereto it goes” (III, iii). Hamlet shows us his flaws, how his plans of action are different from Gods, the differences humans have from God and in turn gives a small picture of what it is to be human. The conscience is used in the play Hamlet for many important reasons. It is used to bring justice and to reveal failures and shortcomings. The fact that humans even have a conscience proves that they are doing something wrong. By definition, a conscience is the sense of rightness assuming there’s a wrong thing to do. The king is brought to justice by his conscience for doing the wrong thing. Hamlet says, “The play’s the thing /Wh

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