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The reluctant character , Prince of Denmark, has become one of the most cited characters in history. Throughout Shakespeare's play knows what he must do, but avoids it in his mind. The problem is: why does delay in avenging his father's death? is afraid. H ....

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.... is true. wants to doubt the existence of the ghost when he tells Horatio and the others, "Never make known what you have seen tonight."(Act 1, Sc. 5, ln. 160)(65) The mere fact that hesitates to reveal that he has seen the ghost at all and swears Horatio and the other sentinels to secrecy, shows his want to keep the proof of his father's death secret. When says, "If his occulted guilt/ do not itself unkennel in one speech,/ it is a damned ghost that we have seen,/ and my imaginations are as foul/ as Vulcan's stithy." (Act 3, Sc. 2, ln. 85-89)(141) here wants to believe the ghost is a demon and tries to persuade himself that it is. knows i ....