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Hamlet is the founding character of modernity, master of his own destiny. He is the first character to live in Machiavelli's "The Prince." He believes in the power of the self and in glory. He, and no one else, has the power to proclaim himself and the decision not to kill himself. Above all, he is a great critic of the rhetoric of etiquette, of characters who act all the time and always say only what should be said. According to historian Leandro Karnal, the character was a great critic of contemporary society. Hamlet is melancholic, has a brutal conscience, and those who have a brutal conscience do not smile or share their mediocre life all the time. He is the anti-Facebook," said the historian. According to the historian, we are increasingly lonely because we have more and more difficulty establishing something meaningful with the world. In Shakespeare's play, the prince questions himself all the time. What Hamlet tells us is: we only interpret scenes, etiquette, and formalities because we cannot stand knowing that everyone is part of a theater. Hamlet, the speaker recalled, did not rule his kingdom, he was the first free man, the first modern man. And he paid a very high price for it. Program aired on 04/10/2016.