rt time later his dear mother married the murderer. He is the only one that knows for sure, because the ghost of his father told him. In his return home from school he is given an opportunity to make justice of the murder but in this great deed he questions his own existence and to what extreme must he go to stay faithful to his father.Hamlet acts as a madman perhaps to make his job easier. If he is a madman no one will wonder why he is rambling on or asking too many questions. Madness is his cloak from the world. Mrs. Popov acts as a crazed widow. It may not be as extreme but she is left alone to do as she pleases. Both are haunted or hunted by the dead person in question. Hamlet of course his father, and Popov her husband. Hamlet has been given a great mission to save the state and have revenge for his father’s death. Mrs. Popov is emotionally assaulted by a man who claims to be owed a great deal of money. Both characters seriously have to take into consideration if what they are encountering is really real. Old Hamlet could possibly be a demon in disguise, or some other evil form that could make big trouble for young Hamlet. Mrs. Popov has to deal with the fact that maybe this man did not even know her husband. Perhaps the notes he has are forged by himself, and the only reason he is there is to steal her money and in the process finds her incredibly attractive so he refuses to leave. The possibilities are there for interpretation.Because this great literature it all comes out fine in the end, but the reader is taken through their process of getting there. Hamlet could have simply returned to school and left his state to the mercy of his father’s killer and never looked back upon it. Mrs. Popov could have never fought with the brute and could have let him sit there until the money arrived from town. But both persons in question took initiative had to have a process in their minds of how they were to deal wi...
