The play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is the perfect example of a "coming of age" archetype. ... Hamlet experiences multiple events that forever change his personality over the course of the play. ... Hamlet himself says that his previous interests were "saws of books, all forms, all pressures" (1.5.100). ... He loved his father dearly, and at this moment in the play, Hamlet decides to do what is right in his eyes and avenge his hero. ... At the very end of the play, Hamlet wins back the audience's affection, just before his life ends, revealing that Shakespeare be...

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