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…showed last 75 words of 699 total…with his promise to his father to avenge his death, and finally ending with killing Claudius at the last possible moment. Like his procrastination, his feigned madness commences early in the play, ultimately growing into a mental illness that causes his death by the rapier of Laertes. These moral flaws contribute to the tragic hero that is Hamlet, and the play will continue to be one of the most popular classical tragedies of all time.