... characters may have had different outcomes. After the miscalculated murder, Claudius exiles an eager-to-leave-Denmark Hamlet to England, sending former classmates of Hamlet's along, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In a letter to Horatio, Hamlet writes how the King is really sending him off to be killed, but pirates attack and take him hostage instead. Before the original boat keeps heading towards ... England, Hamlet is able to switch out the letter ordering his death with a new one calling for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's execution, "That on the view and knowing of these contents, with...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... madness, that ultimately leads to his death. After Macbeth's initial encounter with the "weird sisters", we realize that his physical courage is complemented by a consuming ambition. Macbeth writes a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her of their claims that "he shalt be king hereafter." On hearing this news, a conniving Lady Macbeth, with her thirst for blood ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate