Arguably the best piece of writing ever done by William Shakespeare,
             Hamlet the is the classic example of a tragedy. In all tragedies the hero
             suffers, and usually dies at the end. Othello stabs himself, Romeo and
             Juliet commit suicide, Brutis falls on his sword, and like them Hamlet
             dies by getting cut with a poison tipped sword. But that is not all that
             is needed to consider a play a tragedy, and sometimes a hero doesn't even
             need to die. Making Not every play in which a Hero dies is considered a
             tragedy. There are more elements needed to label a play one. Probably the
             most important element is an amount of free will. In every tragedy, the
             characters must displays some. If every action is controlled by a hero's
             destiny, then the hero's death can't be avoided, and in a tragedy the sad
             part is that it could. Hamlet's death could have been avoided many times.
             Hamlet had many opportunities to kill Claudius, but did not take advantage
             of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead
             he chose not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For example, MacBeth
             was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. He also had
             only one flaw, and that was pride. He had many good traits such as bravery,
             but his one bad trait made him evil. Also a tragic hero doesn't have to
             die. While in all Shakespearean tragedies, the hero dies, in others he
             may live but suffer "Moral Destruction". In Oedipus Rex, the
             proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his
             remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful
             step by his daughter, Antigone. A misconception about tragedies is that
             nothing good comes out of them, but it is actually the opposite. In Romeo
             and Juliet, although both die, they end the feud between the Capulets and
             the Montegues. Also, Romeo and Juliet can be together in heaven. In Hamlet,
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