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Why doesn't Hamlet stab Claudius?

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7y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

He has the chance to, just after the Mousetrap play. He decides not to because he worries for some reason that Claudius will go to heaven if he dies praying. Hamlet wants him to go to Hell.

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