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* UnnecessarilyCruelRejection: In Act 3, Scene 1, Ophelia is ordered by her father to meet up with Hamlet and return his letters to see if he'd gone mad over his love for her. When Ophelia tried returning the letters to Hamlet, he denies having written them and instead claims that he never loved her in the first place, going on a misogynistic tirade, slut-shames her and tells her to go to a nunnery. Depending on how that line is interpreted, [[GetTheeToANunnery Hamlet might've told Ophelia to become a prostitute as "nunnery" was Elizabethan slang for a brothel]]. Regardless, Hamlet's rejection is a contributing factor into Ophelia going off the slippery slope and [[DrivenToSuicide drowning in a brook, which was implied to be a suicide.]]
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* CruelToBeKind: The trope namer is said when Hamlet contemplates his increasingly brutal actions to protect his family and avenge his father.
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* IncestStandardsAreRelative: Hamlet frequently accuses his [[TheUsurper usurpurous]] [[EvilUncle uncle]] King Claudius of engaging in adultery and incest by marrying his late brother's wife (the one he murdered). While unusual, it appears that the Church does not consider Claudius and Gertrude's marriage to be unlawful.
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* DyingReconcilliation: After Laertes is wounded with his own poisoned sword, and Gertrude falls dead from drinking from a poisoned cup of wine, Laertes exposes Claudius's plot to Hamlet before he succumbs to the poison, giving Hamlet the drive to finally kill Claudius.
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* DyingReconcilliation: After Laertes is wounded with his own poisoned sword, and Gertrude falls dead from drinking from a poisoned cup of wine, Laertes exposes Claudius's plot to Hamlet before he succumbs to the poison, giving Hamlet the drive to finally kill Claudius.
