... to kill Claudius, and he assures himself that vengeance will soon be dealt to the King. Hamlet finds himself so dead-set on this plan, that when he orders his friends to "Never make known [tonight's occurrences] "(1.5.158), he fails to even consider that the Ghost's order to "swear "(1.5.167) to this may in actuality be for he himself to heed ... his father's death, and did so in perhaps the only form Hamlet would view as authoritative. Hamlet is only all-to willing to sacrifice his humanity for the sake of little more than madness, but the Ghost's later commands to swear to keep their ...

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