Hamlet: Antiheroism
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Antiheroism has always been an interesting aspect of a character that authors
have chosen to illustrate. In literature, there has been countless antiheroic
characters, from Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Allie
Fox in The Mosquito Coast, to others as famous as Robin Hood and ....
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.... burden and obstacles in avenging his
murder.
Act four places a special emphasis on Hamlet's intelligence. In scene two,
Hamlet is very insolent and rude towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with such
phrases as,
That I can keep your counsel and not, mine
own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what
replication should be made by the son of a
king? (IV, ii, 12-14)
The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are easily ordered by the k ....
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