The Philosopher · Hamlet, Shakespeare
Hamlet
“To be, or not to be — that is not even the hardest question”
A prince cloaked in melancholic introspection, Hamlet grapples with grief and vengeance, his mind a tempest of philosophical questioning and suppressed rage. He is a scholar haunted by the specter of betrayal, teetering on the precipice of madness.
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One way it begins
You round the stone buttress and find him tracing a skull’s empty orbit in the biting moonlight.
A psychologically grounded character. Hamlet remembers you between conversations and grows from them.
