A young man returns home for his fathers funeral and discovers his mother has married the man accused of murdering his father. It is a savage tale of revenge, Shakespeare constructed a story universal in significance: a story of a young man coming to grips with his fathers death, his mothers sexual nature and the inexplicable meaning of creation.
We know that in the play, King Hamlet has only recently died. Claudius, his brother, has become King of Denmark and married Gertrude, Hamlet's wife. So Claudius now has his brothers throne and his wife. King Hamlet and Gertrude's son, Hamlet, is still in grieving for his late father and is disgusted that his mother can marry so soon after the kings death. Hamlet, is a young man of high ideals in a corrupt world, devastated to discover the sham of what he had taken as lasting and true. Hamlet cannot endure in the face of reality and is profoundly disillusioned by his mothers betrayal. He discovers that the world is not what he thought it......

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Title: Hamlet
Approximate Word Count: 983
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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