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How Is Death Presented In Hamlet

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The article looks into two plays, Hamlet and Macbeth. Two ancient works f literature that are still used even to date. However, the main focus will be on Hamlet and how death is represented in it. According to the authors, ghosts, which are often associated with death are portrayed as either being our guardian angels or even our inner demons. In Hamlet however, the ghosts have been represented as being real, and not as a form of the character’s crazed delusions. In Hamlet, based on the interpretation of the authors, death is a form of punishment that haunts those that have had injustices in the past. Death acts as a dramatic device in the Hamlet to tell the two opposing stories in the play. In general, ghosts in the Hamlet are used to link

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