Essay Question No. 8 In the play “Hamlet”, written by Shakespeare, Hamlet discovers that his uncle, now king, Claudius, murdered his father. It takes some time for him to be certain of this though. The ghost of his father appears towards the beginning of the play and reveals this to him, but he is not certain that the ghost is not a figment of his imagination. He decides to alter a famous play and have it …showed first 75 words of 274 total…

…showed last 75 words of 274 total…committed the terrible murder. Second, once he was sure that Claudius did commit the murder he could not decide how to handle it. As a result of Hamlet not killing the king immediately, he caused his own death. If he would have taken care of him sooner he never could of plotted to have Hamlet killed. I believe that it would have been best to kill the king immediately after the play within the play.