... has no remorse for this inhumane actions when he tells Claudius that Polonius is at supper not where he eats, but where he is eaten (IV, ii, 18-20). Hamlet's harsh and cruel treatment of Ophelia and his murder of her father lead to the madness which eventually overtook her. ... convinced that Denmark is headed for trouble. After the ghost makes his second appearance, Marcellus notes, Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (I, iv, 90). Theses observations in the first act are clear indications that Denmark has transformed into a state of chaos. The most glaring weakness of Wilson Kn...

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... but to sleep and feed? A best, no more. Sure he that mad us with such large discourse, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us unused. (IV.IV.33-39) . Hamlet believes that life is useless if men do not use their great power of reason and intellect. In-fact men become evil, "stale, and flat." The next ... convocation of politic worms are e"en at him. . . . A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a kind, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. (IV.III. 19 -28) This is one of the most profound statements that Hamlet has mad thus far. For it is humbling to...

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... expression in the form of bitter self-abuse, both in soliloquies, like Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I. (II. ii.557) and How all occasions do inform against me. (IV. iv. 34)"10 This type of self-condemnation is also shared among literary malcontents. "Sometimes he [the malcontent] may move from a specific condemnation of his society's faults to a hatred of life ... flaw will be their path to evil or perhaps "[...] the stamp of one defect [...] The dram of all {evil} Doth all the noble substances of a doubt To his own scandal"(I. iv. 34, 39-41). "Hamlet, as ever, is torn between c...

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... and when in the answer to Horatio's cautioning to fear the ghost said "And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?- (Act 1, scene iv, line 66,67) This quotation shows that he was not scared of immortals. Deeply he also may have meant that already he had suffered and sustained so much because of ... ...

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