![]() ![]() It is also revealed that the King had molested Laertes, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. ![]() ![]() He is presented as moral and unwavering, a stark contrast to the original Hamlet.Īt the end of the story, it is revealed that King Hamlet was not killed by Claudius, as the king had led Hamlet to believe, but by Horatio in retaliation for the king having molested him as a young boy. Hamlet does not question death nor his faith, which is unshakable. He grieves little after the death of Ophelia. He does not envy Claudius as the new king, believing him to be a fine monarch, although he pines for the day when he can rule Denmark peacefully and without war. ![]() Unlike the original, Hamlet is disconnected from his indifferent father. The story largely follows the plot of Hamlet. It has drawn substantial criticism for its portrayal of King Hamlet as a pedophile who molested Laertes, Horatio, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the implication that this in turn made them homosexuals. Hamlet's Father is a 2008 novella by Orson Scott Card, which retells William Shakespeare's Hamlet in modernist prose, and which makes several changes to the characters' motivations and backstory. ![]()
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