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A 5 page paper which examines how the images of disease are used throughout the play. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGhamill.rtf
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is filled with images of disease, which not only serve to set the tone of conspiracy and corruption, but also describes the characters and their actions. Disease, as conjured
by Shakespeare, not only affects with external world, but also pierces the internal souls of his characters. Everything and everyone is somehow tainted in this dark tale of murder,
betrayal and revenge. Symbolically speaking, Denmark is rotting because there is a murderer (Claudius) occupying the throne; Claudius is blinded by his single-minded ambition; Queen Gertrude has committed the
"sick" act of marrying her brother-in-law Claudius a mere two months after the murder of King Hamlet; Hamlet is sick at heart over what he perceives to be his mothers
incestuous betrayal of his late fathers memory, and creates an "antic disposition" (I.v.190) of madness in order to expose Claudius as a murder; and finally, the frail Ophelia, who is
treated cruelly as a part of Hamlets scheme, finally becomes truly mad after her father Polonius is murdered, and chooses suicide as a way to ease her emotional pain. Disease
imagery actually appears a total of eight times throughout the play. First, in Act I, there is a conveyed sense of a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage
between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the throne once occupied by his brother, the beloved and popular King Hamlet. In Scene II, Hamlet is
beside himself over the marriage, and laments, "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had
not fixd / His canon gainst self-slaughter!... Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature" (I.ii.133-136, 139-140). Here, there are images
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