Hamlet
Danish prince commanded by father's ghost to avenge his murder but paralyzed by doubt and moral questioning. Hamlet embodies existential crisis, the conflict between thought and action, and the cost of revenge. His "To be or not to be" soliloquy is literature's most famous meditation on existence and suicide.
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