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In crossroads, Shakespeare follows regular convention for alarge instigate of the defend. In the beginning, Shakespeare sets upthe scene, having a ghost on a semidark night. Everyone isworking and fewthing strange is happening in Denmark. Itis as if Shakespeare is saying that some kind of foul play hasbeen committed. This sets up for the major theme in the playwhich is of course visit. The ghost appears to talk to village. It is quite obvious that the play had a gruesome,violent death and the sexual aspect of the play was intelligiblyintroduced when Claudius married Hamlets motherGertrude. The ghost tells Hamlet that he has been given therole of the person who will take revenge upon Claudius.Hamlet must now think of how to take revenge on Claudius,although he doesnt know what to do about it. He pondershis thoughts for a wide period of quantify, expecting to do thedeed immediately, but instead he drags it on until the end ofthe play. Although what was burning(prenominal) to none was that alltragic heroes of plays at that time delayed their actualrevenge until the end of the play. In most revenge plays, therevenger was often anonymous and well disguised, stalkingthe enemy about to be killed, but Hamlet started a battle ofwits with Claudius by playing mad and calling it his anticdisposition, although the whole thing was a ploy to getcloser to Claudius to be able to avenge his initiates deathmore easily. The tactic was a dis emolument in that it drew allattention upon himself. More importantly though it was anadvantage that his antic disposition, isolated him from therest of the court because of the people non paying attentionto what he thought or did because of his craziness. Oneimportant part of all revenge plays is that after the revenge isfinally determined upon, the tragic hero delays the actualrevenge until the end of the play. Hamlets delay of killingClaudius takes on three distinct stages. Firstly he had toprove that the ghost was actually te lling the truth, and he didthis by re-create the play The Mousetrap at court. WhenClaudius stormed out in rage, Hamlet knew that he wasguilty. The second stage was when Hamlet could have killedClaudius while he was confessing to god. If Hamlet haddone it here then Claudius would have gone to heavenbecause he confessed while Hamlets father was inpurgatory because he did not get the opportunity to confess.So Hamlet therefore decided not to murder Claudius at this