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  • Essay / Changes I would make in Hamlet - 623

    Changes I would make in HamletAfter Hamlet is landed in Denmark by pirates in act four, scene six of Hamlet, he is transformed from a man of contemplation into a man of action. Before his abortive trip to England, Hamlet spends most of the play (between the first scene of the second act and the fifth scene of the fourth act) deciding what to do about his deceased father's order to avenge his "murder vile and most unnatural.” ". Although Hamlet believes that taking revenge on his uncle is the morally correct thing to do and that revenge is required by family loyalty, he still finds many excuses for waiting. The most striking example of an excuse found by Hamlet to avoid killing his uncle occurs in act three, scene three, when Hamlet is about to kill his uncle, but refrains from carrying it out because his uncle prays, scene one, Hamlet. even considers suicide as an alternative to the father's revenge, saying that the "sleep of death", with its end to "sorrows and a thousand natural shocks/ This flesh is the heir of...