Re: Yes, I analysed the word "table"... -- Great Books II

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Date Posted: 21:39:27 05/04/08 Sun
Author: sneidow
Subject: Re: Yes, I analysed the word "table"...
In reply to: tsawyer 's message, "Yes, I analysed the word "table"..." on 23:07:50 04/27/08 Sun

Laertes, throughout the play of Hamlet, plays the role of a model in avenging a family member. He acts in proper proportion to his family, country, and self throughout the play until his challenge to revenge surfaces. When he takes on the familial duty of revenge, he denies his personal duty by accepting the condemnation that revenge will bring him. Though he is opposing his father�s admonition to be true to himself, Laertes takes the gamble and faces either the consequences of revenging Polonius- a condemned soul-or faithfulness to personal duty- the title of a �bastard� (4.5.17) So, though he runs the risk of condemnation, his gamble with death pays off as he avenges his father and relieves himself of all related condemnation through receiving full forgiveness for Hamlet�s death, while still condemning Hamlet with Ophelia�s death. This perfects the model Hamlet sought in his own attempts to avenge his father. As with seeking governmental justification for revenge through Claudius, he seeks peace of conscience in Hamlet�s absolution of guilt. Through Laertes constant focus on moral and conscious peace, he not only fulfills national duty in killing Hamlet for the king, but also follows familial duty in revenge and listens to personal duty in seeking the moral and conscious path of his revenge.

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