Context:
In Hamlet there is a contamination process at work
and all are touched by it. Even the hero commits murder and
must therefore die, not inherit, at the end if Denmark is
to be cleansed. The play invites us to consider how to deal
with issues of injustice and abuse of power. Having seen his
father in purgatory.
Hamlet has to grapple with questions of mortality; how to
make this world better and cleaner by the removal of Claudius
at the risk of his own death and afterlife. Hamlet is the
first of the revenge heroes not to turn into a monster. He
tries hard to follow his father's instruction not to become
corrupted but how do you kill without becoming as bad as your
enemy?
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