The Key to Hamlet's Difficulties

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This is a short essay on Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet. The paper argues the position that the root of Hamlet's problems in the play is the fact that appearances are deceiving, or that there is a gap between appearance and reality. The writer maintains that for one thing, Hamlet is put in a position where he cannot trust his friends or family. Further, the writer discusses that Shakespeare also puts other deceptive appearances into the play.

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"The tragedy of Hamlet is sometimes seen as the downfall of a particularly vulnerable or feeble personality - that of the lead character - and his inability to cope with the adverse circumstances surrounding him which must, after all, have been relatively commonplace in the courtly families of the dark ages. We have only to compare Hamlet's reaction to the murder of his father to that of Laertes to realize that Hamlet's level of personal difficulty in coping is `off the charts', so to speak."

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