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It is commonly said that if you play too close with the fire, you are going to get burned. This generally means that if you live a dangerous lifestyle, then you will eventually falter and suffer the consequences. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are many cases wh ....

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.... his brother, the king by placing poison in the sleeping man's ear. The king dies from the poisoning, and Claudius exclaims that the king must have been bitten by a snake and died from the venom. “The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the crown.” (p 29) It is the perfect crime except that young Hamlet gets wind of the evil deed from the ghost of his father. Hamlet is told that the only way to put his father's soul to rest is to right the crime that was committed. So Hamlet sets his sights on proving that Claudius murdered his father. Hamlet devises an ingenious plan to trap Claudius. He rigs a play to portray the same m ....