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Hamlet: A Revenge Tragedy
William Shakespeare's Hamlet can be defined as a revenge tragedy.
In Shakespeare's tragedies the reader sees a noble, heroic central
character who is destroyed because a defect in his character either causes
him to involve himself in circumstances which overpower him, or makes him
incapable of dealing with a destructive situation caused by another
character or by circumstances. The play ends with the death of the central
character. But before he dies, he achieves insights which make him a more
perceptive human being than he was when the play began. This cent....
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