Hamlets Doubts - helpful or harmful.modified.

... Hamlet's Doubt: Helpful or Harmful? The revenge theory is a theme used in many Elizabethan plays. Some would even say it's a over used theme since it seems to call for the same characters: the ghost who wants revenge, the hero who disguises himself to fulfill the ghost's wishes, a fragile female, and so on. The end of most revenge plays also have the hero die in his attempt to seek revenge, but Shakespeare's Hamlet breaks the typical guidelines. Hamlet is and will always remain a unique revenge story because the protagonist has an internal struggle with an emotion that most revenge heroes don't: uncertainty. Hamlet's doubt revolves around the authenticity of the ghost of his late father, his uncle's part in his father's death, and his mother's knowledge of his uncle's wrongdoing. Not to be perceived as a result of being too delicate, Hamlet's doubt is a result

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