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y. . . in intellectual terms . . . is a tragedy . . . of excessive thought.” (Mack. 43) Hamlet’s role was to make a transcendental move from scholarly prince to man of action. Hopefully this report will help open another, or even stress a classic, view as to Hamlet’s character and his prolonged delay. When a student goes to write about Hamlet’s character they often begin by hitting a wall. Not the usual writers block in which the mind goes blank, but one of information loaded upon information. Where does a pupil begin? In this vast mound of information, where do we start? The Beginning would be a proper place. The background of Hamlet may help to bring some insight onto his character analysis. “Hamlet is . . . a man who, at thirty, still lives among students.” As the play opens, Hamlet has just returned from Wittenberg Germany, most likely attending Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg. Hamlet was in-fact so found of this Wittenberg university, that he had requested for his immediate return there. Hamlet probably felt a little out of place in a political environment. For the hasty marriage of his uncle and his mother may have been one only of convince. To add fuel to this enraged fire, Claudius so boldly denies Hamlet’s return to his asylum. This could not have angered Hamlet anymore. For where Hamlet saw that “the time is out of joint,” Hamlet himself was “out of joint.” How? Hamlet saw Elsinore as a prison rather than a sanction. Denmark’s a prison. . . world. . . in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons . . . Denmark’s oath’ worst . . . I could be bounded in a nutshell and cut myself a kind of infinite space [thought]. (II.II.243-255) A man who is a mere “prince of philosophical speculators,” as F.E. Halliday puts it, would not feel at home in an incestuous tomb of politics. Hamlet is so out of place and suffering from h...

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