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    This document provides a summary of the development of Hamlet's character over the course of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It notes that while 15th century customs dictated parents mourn the loss of a family member for 6 months to a year, Hamlet struggles with constantly changing emotions and mindsets in his grief over his father's death. The summary analyzes Hamlet's grief and development in three parts - Acts 1 and 2 where he is in denial, Acts 3 and 4, and finally Act 5 where his character presumably continues to develop.

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    This document provides a summary of the development of Hamlet's character over the course of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It notes that while 15th century customs dictated parents mourn the loss of a family member for 6 months to a year, Hamlet struggles with constantly changing emotions and mindsets in his grief over his father's death. The summary analyzes Hamlet's grief and development in three parts - Acts 1 and 2 where he is in denial, Acts 3 and 4, and finally Act 5 where his character presumably continues to develop.

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    This document provides a summary of the development of Hamlet's character over the course of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It notes that while 15th century customs dictated parents mourn the loss of a family member for 6 months to a year, Hamlet struggles with constantly changing emotions and mindsets in his grief over his father's death. The summary analyzes Hamlet's grief and development in three parts - Acts 1 and 2 where he is in denial, Acts 3 and 4, and finally Act 5 where his character presumably continues to develop.

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    Gonzalez 1

    Danielle Gonzalez

    Mrs. Zeltner

    Lit/Mod Media

    9 January, 2023

    Hamlet’s Development

    Based on an online article written about the History of Mourning during the 15th century,

    “parents were to be grieved from half a year to a full year.” Interestingly enough the play Hamlet,

    written by William Shakespeare, was set around the same time period and its main character

    expressed the very opposite of that statement made in the online article. Over the course of the

    play the main character, Hamlet who has lost his father, struggles with his constant change of

    emotions, personality, and mindset. However, by the end of the play one can still find

    themselves feeling a sense of sympathy for Hamlet who has not always been a great person,

    but can certainly justify his unruly actions with his empathy, love, and relatableness.

    First Body Paragraph: Acts 1 and 2


    (author, act, line, scene)

    Truly the way Hamlet is a relatable character allows us as readers to sympathize with his

    constant change of emotions and mindset throughout Acts 1 and 2. At the start of the very first

    act we read how Hamlet grieves his father through what he wears, says, and not some much in

    what he does. Overall in these two acts we read how he steps into the first stage of grief which

    is denial.

    Second body Paragraph: Acts 3 and 4

    Third Body Paragraph: Act 5


    Gonzalez 2

    Work Cited

    Shakespeare, William, and Alan Durband. Hamlet: Shakespeare Made Easy. Barron's
    Educational Series Inc., 1986.

    (author, act, scene, line)

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