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Hamlet

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Act I: Scene 1
Act I: Scene 2
Act I: Scene 3
Act I: Scene 4
Act I: Scene 5
Act II: Scene 1
Act II: Scene 2
Act III: Scene 1
Act III: Scene 2
Act III: Scene 3
Act III: Scene 4
Act IV: Scene 1
Act IV: Scene 2
Act IV: Scene 3
Act IV: Scene 4
Act IV: Scene 5
Act IV: Scene 6
Act IV: Scene 7
Act V: Scene 1
Act V: Scene 2

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Hamlet
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Ophelia
Laertes
Horatio

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Free Will and Fate in Hamlet and Oedipus Rex
Ophelia's Dilemma in Hamlet

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Act I: Scene 4

[Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.]

HORATIO.
He waxes desperate with imagination.

MARCELLUS.
Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.

HORATIO.
Have after. — To what issue will this come?

MARCELLUS.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

HORATIO.
Heaven will direct it.

MARCELLUS.
Nay, let's follow him.

[Exeunt.]

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