Saturday, August 24, 2013

Why is the murder so "unnatural" according to both Hamlet and the ghost?

Given the general feeling that one needed to repent of
their sins and receive last rites by a priest, the fact that Hamlet Sr. was murdered
without the opportunity to do so was a very big part of it being so
unnatural.


The other reasons have to do with the strange
way of poisoning him by dropping the ebona in his ear rather than a more manly way of
murdering him, the fact that it was his own brother who stole upon him in his hour of
repose, and add to that that it was simply not a very natural way for such a powerful,
accomplished man to exit his life.

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