... he valued most in life and therefore makes his vengeance and act of God himself. His divination gives him the power to enact his retribution but he still lacks the ambition to complete the task at hand. It is ironic that in the end his lethargy causes a circumvolution and his role is reversed from being the methodic predator to the victim ... wickedness that so easily sleuths through her perpetually wicked veins. Some critics argue that justice was not served adequately in the final scenes of the play, but Gertrude created her own finality by allowing her mortal inclinations to precede ...

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