... 's uses a progressive timeline and Hamlet's madness to identify corruption within Hamlet as a character. Hamlet is shown in the origin of the play to be a man of "virtues pure as grace" and clear intelligence. Yet as the play develops, Hamlet is shown to be feigning madness "I am but mad north-north west" as he himself recognises. Shakespeare uses ... ...

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... blast me/ If thou has t any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me:/ If there be any good thing to be done,/ That may to thee do ease and grace to me, Speak to me:/ If thou art privy to thy country's fate,/ Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,/ O Speak,/ Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life/ Extorted treasure in ... ...

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