Drama Analysis Of Hamlet

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Drama Analysis: Hamlet 'To be or not to be '. This is a very famous literary cue, and which characterizes both the play hamlet and his author William Shakespeare. For the drama analysis paper I chose to do it over Hamlet. A play read by many and known by even more than that. A rather long play out of the book as well. The book even states that, "Hamlet must be the best known of all characters in the theater of the world". I am going to first give a story line or a short summary of the play.
Even thought Hamlet is in Germany, the plays setting starts in Denmark where he is being summoned for his fathers funeral. When he arrives he finds that his mother has already remarried. She is now with his uncle Claudius, and Hamlet regards this as
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Claiming that he is unable to rest in piece, because he was murdered. He wants Hamlet to avenge his death by murdering Claudius, but to spare Gertrude. This is all bringing together the plot, and showing the basis of how the storyline got started. With Hamlet being the protagonist we know that he is the 'good guy ', and he 's going to be fighting some sort of evil. Whether that concerns someone of something within himself.
Hamlet soon begins to question himself, and the motives of the ghost. He is not sure whether or not he can trust the ghost. This sets up some conflict within himself as well as with this so called ghost of his father. For him to figure out what was really the truth he sets up a play called "The Mousetrap", where the plot is just like his fathers death. Thus showing that just as he suspected, Claudius freaked out and left the room. This was when Hamlet was positive that the ghost was telling the
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This continued until they had both slayed each other, and by this time everyone between them had suffered their own deaths as well. Leaving only Horatio from Hamlets connection of people, and the new King of Denmark standing at the end of the play. Hamlet is one of the longest plays ever performed, clocking in at about 4 hours. After reading it, and getting a sensation at he end I can only imagine how it must have felt walking out of a theater after watching the

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