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Hamlet: Moral Order
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, a very clear moral order is established as
the protagonist, Hamlet, completes his journey through the phases which
define a Shakespearean tragedy. The play begins with Hamlet encountering
his father's ghost, at which point he learns his father had in fact been
murdered by his own brother, Claudius. It is Hamlet's wish to avenge his
father that causes a ....
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.... "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as
swift/As meditation or the thoughts of love/May sweep to my revenge." At
this point, Hamlet is completely justified in his feelings, and most would
agree that his revenge is morally right. Although the act of murder itself
is wrong, an "eye for an eye" almost wholly justifies it. The gravity of
Claudius' crime grows when one considers that all the deaths throughout the
play would not have come if it were not the murder. The crime itself is ....
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