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Abominable Aspiration Suzanne Collins once wrote For there to be betrayal there would have to have been trust first postiting that it is in the connections closest to us that pain will result when individuals somehow lose their way In the play Hamlet the characters of Hamlet King Claudius and Polonius are all blinded by personal ambition and as a result lose connection to their true path enabling them to hurt the ones they love and who had trust in them In general one s ambitions and lofty aspirations can enable a once moral individual to become untrue to themselves Once disconnected from one's authentic self a person loses their moral compass and is destined to destroy and betray those whom they once held most dear Throughout the play Prince Hamlet is able to erase himself and his humanist education to become possessed by his father s warlike spirit in an attempt to solve and eventually avenge his father's untimely death Yet in the process he disregards the feelings of his lover Ophelia eventually leading to her suicide Following the first meeting of Hamlet and his deceased father the distraught prince is instructed by The Ghost to put an antic disposition on 1 5 193 in an attempt to save Old Hamlet from eternal damnation
