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 | | The conflict in Hamlet, he said, 'is between what's expected of him as a prince, a man of action, a leader who should take good, pure, strong action for the good of the state, and the most simple human confusions, pieties, frustrations and angers, which are rooted in the child in him, as a son.' |
 | | Hamlet's path to action, he said, begins to take shape when the traveling players arrive at Elsinore: 'The players come on, he listens to them, then addresses the audience, quite clearly says how he's been unable to take action. |
 | | And even though Hamlet still questions the notion of a just murder, he is fortified to set up the killing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and, finally, to dispatch Claudius. |
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