“Hamlet is the solitary, unknowing to all the places he will afflict. He walks about, ...he denies others by looking at them, and even without willing it spreads death about him. ‘The black presence of the doubter causes this poison’ “ (Edwards P. on Mallarme’s essay Crayonne au Theatre (1886) in Coyle 1992,page 21) Shakespeare, with his character of Hamlet has provided one of the most complex, though intriguing characters in the history of literature. The most …showed first 75 words of 1971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1971 total…making the body count eight. The Elizabethans, somewhat expecting this bloodshed would not have been happy if it ended any other way since it was part of the whole revenge tragedy construct. Hamlet has fulfilled what he had set out to do; he has avenged his father’s death, and in the end therefore died nobly. Anything else is just a detail. For the modern audiences, the view of the final scene is purely tragic.