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However, Hamlet possesses far more awareness about his own weaknesses, and despite his early doubts, he also doubts the ghost: "The spirit that I have seen/May be the devil: and the devil hath power/to assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps/Out of my weakness and my melancholy, / as he is very potent with such spirits, / Abuses me to damn me" (II.5).

Hamlet constructs a test to make sure that he is not merely seeing what he wants to see, rather than the truth. Even after the "Mousetrap" seems to confirm his uncle's guilt, Hamlet still has trouble killing his uncle, for emotional and logical reasons. He rationalizes that he does not want to send his uncle to heaven and cannot kill Claudius when he is preying, and only kills Claudius in the heat of the moment, after Claudius has acted against him by secretly poisoning him with a pearl.

Robert Wringhim does not have this psychological sensitivity and self-awareness. His interpretation of Christianity is simplistic and moralistic, unlike Hamlet's compulsion to analyze his sanity and construct objective tests of the truths of religion.

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To provide this external scrutiny, the author of Confessions of a Justified Sinner includes a section called the "End of the Memoir" which provides an external portrait of the main character as possessing a "deep, thoughtful, and sullen disposition" (Hogg 1). While Hamlet knows that he has a tendency to melancholia and being overly judgmental of other people, Wringhim merely sees his own view as correct, and looks for justifications to obey his moralistic whims. Although Hamlet may at times disturb a viewer in the violence of his depression, and his actions towards women, ultimately he emerges as a sympathetic character because he admits his fallibility, that he can be wrong, and that he has doubts. This is wholly unlike Wringhim's Puritanical and gloating assurance of his own pre-destination for heaven, no matter what he does on earth.

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