The Role Of Duty In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Part I of Essay
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 princ ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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, scene 2 Hamlet meets an actor who easily displays intense emotion and passion on matters that have just come to his head. Hamlet asks himself in the soliloquy that followed if he was a coward for not completing his task yet. This makes it obvious that killing Claudius isn't something that Hamlet wants to do. Hamlet is so weary of killing his uncle that he questions the intentions of the ghost. It was said earlier in the play th ....