... deaths of six innocent people. Hamlet thinks up the "Mouse-trap", a play about a King named Gonzago who is murdered the same way as Lord Hamlet was murdered. This was done to verify the truthfulness of the ghost by seeing the reaction of Claudius during the scene. Hamlet then searches for Claudius, ready to kill him. After learning the truth, Hamlet still procrastinates the killing of Claudius. Hamlet ponders, "Am I then ... father figure. Poole analyses how Freud uses psychoanalysis to interpret and understand characters "from the flow of their own lives". He states, "This suggests tha...

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