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Essay Galaxy - Hamlet(lit Devices)
Paula Vasconcellos
To kill a king, to avenge a murder, to save a nation, a task put into one man�s hands. Hamlet is a man with �too much reason� and not enough action. Sick with love and disgusted by the lust which slowly engulfs his kingdom. He is surrounded by greed and death within a threatened Denmark. In Shakespeare�s Hamlet, plot is constructed through various internal conflicts and a tense mood formed by the use of historical setting, psychological characterization, and ominous foreshadowing.
The battle between King Fortinbras and King Hamlet is an example presented in the play of historical setting, for it illustrates a past happening which is important for the fundemental understanding of the play. It describes the battle between the two kings for some land, an occurrence in the p....
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