... and a baser emotion of lust. Hamlet invokes these and other sins as he describes his family. Though Hamlet entwines nobility with his role as hero he also condemns his own anger and vengeance along with his mother's lust and his uncle's gluttony. His inertness could also be described as slight indolence thus increasing his own deadly sins and therefore foreshadowing his ... role in Shakespeare's society. Hamlet portrays himself as a madman by enhancing a feminine flight of fancy. Though his plan is ultimately futile, this inheritance of supposed female qualities is later marked on poor Op...

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