Hamlet: Growing Pains
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In the epic tragedy Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet is
entrapped in a world of evil that is not of his own creation. He must oppose
this evil, which permeates his seemingly star-struck life from many angles. His
dealings with his father's eerie death cause Hamlet to grow up fast. H ....
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.... ‘O that this too too solid flesh would melt...' (I. ii. 135). He
is prevented from this drastic step only by a faith which teaches him that God
has ‘fix'd/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter' (I. ii. 131-2). To Hamlet appears
his dead father's spirit, and he must continue to live in the ‘unweeded garden,
/ That grows to seed' in order to fulfill the obligation he has to his father
(I.ii. 135-6).
Making Hamlet more a story of personal growth than a dark murder mystery,
Shakespear ....
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