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William Shakespeare, world renowned playwright and poet, a brilliant mind that has written many classic tales of romance, tragedy, and comedy. We’re going to dip into the world of William Shakespeare, and his legendary play, Hamlet, which was one of his bloodiest plays. Hamlet’s setting was in Denmark. He was a prince, and his father had just died. His uncle, Claudius, instantaneously took the throne, and even took the late king’s wife as his own. This of course was extremely suspicious, and Hamlet starting gathering information. He thought that Claudius and his mother’s relationship were incestuous, and that Claudius had other intentions with his control over Gertrude, his mother, and the kingdom. It was only a matter of time before Claudius would soon get rid of Hamlet too.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,

With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--

O wicked wit, and gifts that have the power

So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust

The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.

(shakespeare-online.com)

Hamlet, already suspicious, continues on, acting like nothing is wrong. He then meets a ghost, possibly of his father’s, and the ghost tells him that he was murdered by King Claudius. “Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.”(Shmoop.com) Hamlet is furious, but without any way of proving it, he’ll have to take matters into his own hands. He devises a plot to murder King Claudius himself, and rightfully make the kingdom peaceful, and without treachery and secrets.

William Shakespeare is known for his hilarious ways of making fun of kings and authority. It is shown in most of works that he is not very fond of the leaders, and continues to make...

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Like all tragic heroes in William Shakespeare’s tragedies, the main characters die, very heroically. In Macbeth, Macbeth dies by Macduff’s hand, for he was not born of a woman, and the prophecies became true. Macbeth, much like Hamlet, thought that they were invincible, and would be able to achieve their goals without much bloodshed, but they were very wrong. Even if hamlet had lived, Im not sure if he would’ve made a good leader. He was driven by grief and madness, that was the only reason he achieved his goals. Without that sense of meaning, he wouldn’t have been able to do anything at all, which leaves the reader to believe that Hamlet needs to be fighting for something to actually act on anything really. This type of mind will work nowadays, for our society, since many people need a meaning to actually go through life fulfilled. (realshakespeare.com)