My friend Nick, who shared the same adventurous interests as me, invited me to say in a lakeside cabin with him for a week in Chelan, Washington to which I graciously accepted, and before I knew it, we were touching down in Seattle and driving two hundred miles west into Central Washington. ... Just like Abbey, my natural instincts allowed me to see the powerful force of nature as beautiful even though it was the very force that was threatening my safety. ...

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Also, however, Hamlet does not want to confront Gertrude with the crime in a rational way, thus forcing her to make a difficult choice between Hamlet and Claudius, with disastrous psychological results for Hamlet if she chooses against him. ... This explains why Hamlet berates Ophelia to the point of driving her insane and towards her untimely death. ... Thus, since Hamlet cannot induce his mother to stop loving Claudius by killing her or driving her insane, as he did with Ophelia, he must somehow bring about this stoppage while leaving her alive and sane. ...

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