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Why Does Hamlet Want To Be King
“To his Liberty is full of threats to all, to you yourself, to us, to everyone. Alas how shall this bloody deed be answer’d? It will be laid to us.” (Act IV, i)

This is a line from the King from which the audience realizes for the first time that he realizes Hamlet’s killing potential. For a moment it could be perceived that he is scared of what Hamlet may do to him in vengeance in his late father’s name. He is fearful of the backlash of karma he his about to receive for lying in his prayers and false repentance. He is fearful, but also jealous of this new found courage that Hamlet has to face him and kill him rather than the more cowardly approach he himself took. Is Hamlet provig how much bigger a ma he is rather than the king? I believe
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O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”(Act IV, IV)

At this point Hamlet is daring someone to defend the king front of him, because Hamlet is doe hid behind the faces of doubt. Hamlet has revenge in his heart that can only be held by justice. Justice for Hamlet is like “an eye for an eye” or a massacre for the murderer. The coward was left behind and forgotten, for Hamlet has a mission or bloodshed for the vengeance of his father’s death. Word may e a wicked weapon against the foolish, but he now has passion, anger, device powers, bloodshed, and eloquent word play as his means of weaponry.

“There's fennel for you and columbines. There's rue for you, and here's some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O’ you must wear your room with a difference! There's a daisy I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end-” (Act IV,
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Mad with grief Ophelia has hit the proverbial rock bottom after losing her father to Hamlet’s hand, and her boyfriend has been sent away and there is no other person for her to grief to. Therefore she slips away from reality and drowns herself in a stoop of depression and hallucinations. However Ophelia has not lost her observant powers just her means of communications. The flowers come to play, because there is purity and innocence behind them. Flowers are inanimate objects; they cannot lie to coherence the heart of another to shade the truth. Ophelia's short soliloquy was primarily a recollection of what has already happened so far i the play; set up for the dazed front row, while still having the luxurious pottery ehid the meaning of the flowers for the rest of the audience. The flowers are another access to a language all classes can understand even if the meanings are bogged down by the mouth of

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