Character of Hamlet

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This paper conducts a character analysis of Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras' characters in relation to the events and circumstances that happened in the play "Hamlet." Furthermore, this character analysis is accomplished using a comparative essay analysis, where the researcher is able to give a causal relationship among the three characters, further discovering the actions, behavior, and motivations of each through their differences and similarities with each other. Texts from Shakespeare's original play and critiques on the play's character are also be used in support of the claims that are presented in the paper.

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"Fortinbras' course of action upon learning of his father's death is to invade the kingdom of Denmark, kill Old Hamlet and his kingdom, as well as usurp the Hamlet throne. Laertes, on the other hand, challenges Hamlet to a duel that will determine who will and will not live. Hamlet, lastly, resorted to feigning madness in order to determine the truth of what the 'ghost' of Old Hamlet had said. Hamlet's plan to act as a madman is seen in Act 1, Scene 5 of the play, where he informs his friends: "so help you mercy/ How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself/ As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on..." His decision to put on an act in front of his friends and family is Hamlet's way to plan out his revenge and "to relieve the bitterness of his soul," as a result of his discovery that his father was murdered by his own family, Claudius (TheatreHistory.com 2001)."

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