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A 2.5 page paper which examines the conflicts of man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. himself and man vs. fate, that appear throughout the play. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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variety of conflicts that propel the action. The plot is comprised of the conflicts of man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. himself and man
vs. fate. The only way Hamlet can be truly understood and appreciated is to consider these conflicts individual in order to reveal how they combine to bring the play
to its tragic conclusion. First, there is the conflict between Prince Hamlet of Denmark and his formidable adversary, King Claudius, his fathers brother, who recently married the widow of his
murdered brother in order to ascend to the throne. Claudius had proven himself to be a capable ruler and a master orator, providing security and solace to his grief-stricken
subjects after King Hamlets slaying: "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death / The memory be green, and that it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief,
and our whole kingdom / To be contracted in one brow of woe, / Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature / That we with wisest sorrow think on
him / Together with remembrance of ourselves" (I.ii.1-7). But Hamlet knows there is another side to Claudius, one that is devious and will stop at nothing to satisfy his
ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe / Of your precedent lord; a vice
of kings; / A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, / That from a shelf the precious diadem stole / And put it in his pocket!... A king of
shreds and patches!" (III.iv.108-113, 115) If Hamlet is going to defeat Claudius, it will not be with a sword but with masterful cunning, and can only be achieved through
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