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It's a bit wordy and has some grammer mistakes but aside from
that I think:
Many lessons? It appears you are giving but one, to trust in
God and rely on what he has in store for us all. I think that
if you are going to put this as a intro./starter it should be
expanded or cut. It's good.
I don't feel that Claudius' sin could have been avoided. It
seems to us that he wants to trust in God, but to trust in God
would have been to let go of killing Hamlet Sr. in the first place,
and then later on to give up what he gained by killing Hamlet Sr.
And since he was unable to (because his own sinful ambition took
him so far), I think that his sin and spread of sin into Denmark
was unavoidable.
On top of this, the evil can be said to be stoppable though,
and it is Hamlet's role to stop it. It's just that he becomes
another poisoner aside to Claudius, spitting his hatred into
Claudius' ear, when he might have restored the unweeded garded
to health.
These are just my ideas though, if you feel that you can
argue this theses well enough, good for you. Aside from what I
feel Hamlet is about, for it seems your views are different, I
think you got a very well laid out theses. I don't really like
slamming people's essays so I'm sorry if this caused any trouble.
You wanted constructive critisism, I hope then that this is
just that. If you feel otherwise, please inquire back to me.
Posted by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on March 30, 1997 at 17:34:39
In Reply to "Hamlet and Religion." posted by Aragorn on March 29, 1997 at 18:37:02
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