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Essay / Essays of Hamlet: The Loss of Innocence in Shakespeare's Hamlet
He feels like a garden full of weeds, in which the weeds represent the death of his father and the marriage of the queen and the king which he can no longer strive to repair, leaving Hamlet feeling trapped and thinking of suicide. Although Hamlet does not commit suicide, later in the play he kills many other characters, also leading to his loss of innocence. For example, Hamlet confirms his loss of innocence when he discovers that the letters sent by Claudius delivered to Rosencranz and Guildenstern are to pronounce a death sentence for Hamlet in England. Hamlet realizes this and changes the letters, ordering the deaths of Rosencranz and Guildenstern. By sending both men to their deaths, Hamlet lost his innocence because he committed a moral wrong.