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To: nickcarraway

A remarkably stupid idea.

Hamlet's tragic flaw--which is not actually hesitation, but presumption, the desire to damn Claudius, to which he as a mere man has no right, rather than just kill him, to which as an heir whose throne was usurped he has every right--makes not sense in an Islamic context, where deliberately damning (according to their lights) apostates, 'infidels' and the like is perfectly acceptable.


5 posted on 09/15/2005 2:02:28 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know . . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

Depends on what you mean by "usurped." In the sense that Claudius murdered his Brother it was an usurpation, but his actual election as king would not have been an usurpation by the Danish system. cf Harold Jenkins.


6 posted on 09/15/2005 2:05:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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