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In Hamlet, Shakespeare follows regular convention for alarge part of the play. In the beginning, Shakespeare sets upthe scene, having a tint on a dark night. Everyone isworking and something strange is happening in Denmark. Itis as if Shakespeare is saying that some kind of foul play hasbeen committed. This sets up for the study theme in the playwhich is of course strike back. The ghost appears to talk toHamlet. It is sooner obvious that the play had a gruesome,violent death and the sexual boldness of the play was clearlyintroduced when Claudius married Hamlets motherGertrude. The ghost tells Hamlet that he has been given therole of the person who will pull in ones horns retaliation upon Claudius.Hamlet must now think of how to take revenge on Claudius,although he doesnt know what to do about it. He pondershis thoughts for a long period of time, expecting to do thedeed immediately, but quite he drags it on until the dismiss ofthe play. Although what was important to note was that alltragic heroes of plays at that time delayed their actualrevenge until the end of the play. In most revenge plays, therevenger was often anonymous and well disguised, stalkingthe foeman about to be killed, but Hamlet started a battle ofwits with Claudius by acting mad and calling it his anticdisposition, although the safe and sound thing was a ploy to getcloser to Claudius to be fitted to avenge his fathers deathmore easily. The tactic was a disadvantage in that it drew allattention upon himself. More significantly though it was anadvantage that his antic disposition, isolated him from therest of the salute because of the people not paying attentionto what he thought or did because of his craziness. Oneimportant part of all revenge plays is that after the revenge isfinally decided upon, the tragic hero delays the actualrevenge until the end of the play. Hamlets delay of killingClaudius takes on three transparent stages. Firstly he had toprove that the ghost was actually telling the truth, and he didthis by staging the play The Mousetrap at court. WhenClaudius stormed out in rage, Hamlet knew that he wasguilty. The second stage was when Hamlet could have killedClaudius plot of land he was confessing to god. If Hamlet haddone it here then Claudius would have kaput(p) to heavenbecause he confessed while Hamlets father was inpurgatory because he did not get the opportunity to confess.So Hamlet therefrom decided not to murder Claudius at this