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Sometimes the only way to describe something is to give their antithesis or archetype. We already learned from Polonius's tautologous description of Hamlet's antic behavior how not to define. He says, "Your noble son is mad./Mad I call I it, for to define true madness,/What is't but to be nothing else but mad?" (II, ii). Although Shakespeare's description on being human takes a whole play, he does a little better than Polonius. Shakespeare displays the sometimes murky relationship between God and man by showing God and Hamlet's plans adjacent to each other. This relationship is put in real life terms for the audience to see. The Tragedy of Hamlet reveals what it is to be human is to not be God, to not be God is to not be perfect, and not to be perfect is to be flawed. Shakespeare even goes so far as to illustrate how humans should act using a conscience in light of their flaws.



These flaws arise in Hamlet's deviation from God's plan as brought to light by the Ghost. Whether......

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