Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare, tells the story of a young prince who loses his father to his conniving uncle. Young Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, is studying to be a scholar in England who is suddenly called home because of his father’s death and to attend his mothers wedding. He loses his father, and his mother marries his killer, and Young Hamlet must learn to deal with this while his father’s ghost asks a very challenging task of him. The ghost of Hamlet’s father requests that Young Hamlet do that hardest thing he will ever have to do. Young Hamlet’s dilemma is to uphold his filial duty to his father, to “avenge his foul and most unnatural murder,”(1651) while keeping his own honor as he does so Young Hamlet must test the
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