Claudius as the Personification of Evil in 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:47:12
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1163 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1163 words)
The abstract concept of evil has vastly transformed throughout human history, ranging for the supernatural and mystical to the very humans amongst whom we live. In modern times, evil has become an entirely ambiguous term. Who is evil? What is evil? Men like Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein have been garnered with the term 'evil' for their atrocities against fellow humans. Now it seems evil has a solely human significance; when a person violates the …
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…is sentenced to eternal damnation for his moral infractions. God's will prevails in a fundamentally Christian tale of murder in the name of self-interest and revenge in the name of justice and morality.
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Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Spencer, Theodore. "Hamlet and the Nature of Reality." Journal of English Literary History (December, 1938): 253-77.
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