Hamlet

How do Hamlet and Laertes differ in their reactions to the killing of their fathers?

act 4 scene 5

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Hamlet responds to his father's death with a long period of mourning, depression, and melancholy.

Laertes responds to Polonius' death immediate and fraught with a desire for revenge.

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