/lit/ - Literature

>>5999706
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>This is how Hamlet should have acted.
>>Sees Claudius praying
>>instead of saying, "I can't kill him while he's praying, because there is a chance he won't be damned if I do", something which Dr. Johnson admitted was disgraceful, he should have realised that he had to pray
>>he goes to pray beside Caludius
>>Holy Ghost appears on stage and reveals the truth to Hamlet, that the ghost was a fake; Claudius cannot see the Holy Ghost.
>>Then the play ends either with Hamlet retiring from the castle to join a monastery, or to start a family somewhere in the country and look after Polonius in his dotage. OR he confronts Claudius before the queen and his men, and reveals that he is a murderer. Then either Hamlet wins the confrontation, Claudius is justly killed, and Hamlet is crowned, or Claudius wins and Hamlet is martyred.