Part one of term paper
Killing a person is not something that anyone can take lightly. In the story of Hamlet, the uncle of the play's focus character, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, has murdered the prince's father, stolen the crown, and weds his mother. The ghost of king Hamlet comes to the prince and tells him that he must avenge his murder. The play follows Haml ...

Part two of term paper
... seem to come to the conclusion that his final act was an act of duty. Hamlet's first thoughts on the revenge he has to perform went as follows: I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there; and thy commandment all alone shall live. (A1, S5,L99-103) This statement makes it perfectly clear that Hamlet views what he has to do as a job that he has to do for his father. In act 2, ...