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How Is Hamlet A Devil Spirit

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William Shakespeare is arguably the most influential writer of not just the Renaissance, but of all time. Shakespeare wrote plays that everyone could watch, the genres of the plays ranged from true love all the way to true craziness. Hamlet is a tragedy play about a Danish prince that has to deal with a incesterous marriage between his uncle and mother. Hamlet is confronted by a spirit posing to be his father, this spirit tells Hamlet that Claudius his father’s brother poured poison in his ear while he slept in the garden. Hamlet battles his own thoughts about the spirit being the real ghost of his father, or a devil spirit that is trying to corrupt his brain. The spirit that confronts Hamlet is a devil spirit.

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