hamlet

             We are here today, to reflect on the life of Prince Hamlet of Denmark, a well loved hero who died under tragic circumstances. My name is Horatio, and I was Hamlet's best friend, who he placed a lot of trust in throughout his short life.
             Some of the last words he said were "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story.? Hamlet was a man of words. He found it easier to work with them, rather than to act, hence believing that to speak was better than to take revenge. To understand why he was forced to make a decision about this revenge, we must firstly believe that everyone and everything is arranged in a certain order. From God, to cherubs, and archangels, down to the king, the church, princes, nobles, man, animals, plants, and minerals. Before the reign of Claudius, Denmark was kept in order under the rule of King Hamlet.
             Hamlet was an unwilling revenger of his fathers?death who resorted to the use of words over action. Due to this death, Hamlet recognised constant disruptions in the order that had been enforced in recent times. Gun platforms were being guarded throughout the night, and there was the appearance of an apparition, which took the form of the dead King. There was something rotten in the state of Denmark, and nobody in the court was suspicious of King Hamlet's death, while everybody excluding Claudius himself accepted that Hamlet had gone mad. Today, I will tell his story, so that his name will be remembered as a hero, rather than a villain like his uncle.
             I had come from Wittenberg with Hamlet to the castle of Elsinore, where the news of his father's death and his mother's marriage to Claudius struck Hamlet with anguish. Claudius's incestuous act of marriage helped him to illegally seize the king's role from Hamlet. The state of Denmark therefore became corrupt
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