FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Claudius does something wrong.
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Hamlet speaks with his mother.
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Polonius is dead.
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Claudius admits to Hamlet that he is guilty.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In another moment of hesitation in Act Three, Hamlet aborts the killing of Claudius because the man’s praying, and Hamlet worries that his uncle will go to Heaven if he dies while praying.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet comes upon him kneeling and draws his sword, but then stops to think that if he kills Claudius at prayer, Claudius will go to heaven. Hamlet decides to kill Claudius when the king is committing a sin so that Claudius will instead go to hell.
Detailed explanation-3: -What does Claudius do that makes Hamlet hesitate killing him? He is praying for forgiveness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet does not kill Claudius during prayer as he believes that killing the King now would be “hire and salary, not revenge” He cannot allow Claudius to be sent to heaven as this would not avenge his father’s death.
Detailed explanation-5: -Many critics believe that Hamlet uses Claudius’s prayer as an excuse for further delay because his conscience will not allow him to commit premeditated murder. Others claim that it is not Hamlet’s altruism which saves Claudius in this scene, but his own paralyzing habit of “thinking too precisely on th’event” (4.4.