... in his encounter with the ghost of Old Hamlet. Hamlet first proclaims he will "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" and "sweep to my revenge". However, it is later juxtaposed with the doubt he exhibits, "the spirit I have seen may be the devil." While various interpretations deem Hamlet morally ambivalent, Robert Ornstein's The Moral Vision ... of Jacobean Tragedy, provides a different perspective, articulating how Hamlet "is the voice of ethical sensibility" . On reading Ornstein, I develop a greater insight into the scene where Claudius is ... at prayer and repenting for his "f...

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