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Are Hamlet's Decisive And Clever In His Actions
He is the young courtier who carries Claudius' message to Hamlet, proposing the duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Osric has the outwardly verbose and superficial manner of the courtier. Hamlet mocks him in their interchange, but Osric is insensitive to the intended ridicule.

Although this scene provides the final catastrophe of the action, the first episode concerns an exchange of information between Hamlet and Horatio about Hamlet's rescue form certain death, and serves to demonstrate Hamlet's change in behavior. From the start, we see a Hamlet who is decisive and clever in his actions, specifically in dealing with Rosencrantz and Guilderstern's commission. Although he says, "Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting/That would not let

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