... Hamlet is incapable of effectively accomplishing anything, but sulking. This opinion of Hamlet is, however, quickly changed as Hamlet confronts the ghost of his father, the former King of Denmark. The interaction King Hamlet's ghost and Hamlet marks the starting point of Hamlet's metamorphosis, for King Hamlet presents Hamlet with a charge to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (1.5.25). Hamlet, idolizing ... his father as "so excellent a king" and even comparing him to a "hyperion", accepts this charge and thus makes it his obsession to kill the murderer ... of this noble fat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a most enigmatic and complex character, his psyche the subject of more detailed psychoanalysis than any other character in English literature. It is only once in a great while that the reader of literature comes across a man who fakes madness, and ultimately immerses himself so deep into this feigned madness to a point of total metamorphosis into a new being. Hamlet's ostensibly concocted ... madness ultimately catalyzes the development of his dormant, inward madness and natural inclination for pretense and dissimulation ... . Within Hamlet there are two types of madness: the very appare...

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• Grade Level: High School