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    whose father has passed away‚ continues to contemplate life and the reason for his existence. His mother‚ Gertrude‚ greatly contrasts with Hamlet’s point of view and lives a happy life by not caring about anyone else. She and her newlywed husband‚ Claudius‚ have the same attitude towards life‚ and the belief that they have to be selfish to get what they

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    In act I section II‚ the new king of Denmark‚ Claudius is dealing with affairs of state addressing two important issues. At the start of Act I section II the new king of Denmark‚ Claudius‚ first brings up with the issue with the state of Denmark‚ after the passing of the old king‚ Hamlet‚ it only took two months for Claudius and Gertrude ‚the wife of Hamlet‚ to marry one another. To explain this he talks about how the kingdom had grieved over the loss of their previous king and how it has effect

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    marriage of his mother to his uncle‚ King Claudius. From there‚ the mystery of what happed to his father began to unfold. Shortly after his return to Denmark‚ the ghost of his father visited Hamlet. During this scene‚ the ghost reveals to Hamlet the mystery behind his father’s dead. However‚ as the audience of the play‚ we are unsure of the reality of this statement until Hamlet showcased a play within the play of what the ghost had told him. King Claudius was outraged and could not handle the guilt

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    throughout the 2 silioguies‚ “O what a rogue” (1.2.549) and “O this too sullied flesh” (1.2.129). He finds out Claudius killed his father (Hamlet Sir). In the first “O this too too sullied” silidoquey‚ Hamlet is angry with his mother. Hamlet is so depressed he wishes it wasn’t a sin to commit suicide; he is falling apart. Hamlet is angry and upset at Gertrude because of her fast marriage to Claudius (his uncle)‚ right after the death of her husband and Hamlets father‚ Hamlet Sr. Hamlet understood and

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    Denmark to attend his father’s funeral. In the midst of learning of his father’s death‚ Hamlet also becomes privy to the detail that his mother has remarried to his uncle‚ Claudius. Furthermore‚ during Hamlet’s time home his father reappears as a ghost to enlighten Hamlet of his murderous death committed by Hamlet’s uncle‚ Claudius. In just the first act of the play‚ readers quickly find themselves in a swirling whirlwind of Hamlet’s family drama. Through these many incidents and Shakespeare’s eloquent

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    falls to Hamlet‚ since he believes his father was murdered. Hamlet learned the events that unfolded during his father’s murder in the garden from a ghost that claimed to be the spirit of King Hamlet. In both soliloquies‚ his desire and drive to kill Claudius is “prompted to [his] revenge by heaven and hell” (2.2.547). His thoughts of revenge derive from seeing his father’s thought to be spirit in purgatory. The ghost that visited Hamlet may be the “devil” that “assume[d] a pleasing shape” (2.2.561-562)

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    justified in any way. Because Claudius dies‚ Hamlet dies‚ Ophelia‚ Horatio all die at the end of the play. The first reason why the Hamlet play is proof that revenge is not justified. Hamlet is the main character of the play trying to figure out how to get revenge on Claudius. Claudius killed hamlets father by pouring poison in his father’s ear. In order to become the new king of Denmark. And to steel the old kings wife. During the second act‚ Hamlet finds out that Claudius killed Hamlets father

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    Within the passage from Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses diction‚ Imagery and metaphors in order to gravely convey the Ghost and Hamlet’s contempt for Claudius and the Queen. Shakespeare uses vivid Imagery throughout the selected passage to illustrate his theme. While describing the death of Hamlet’s father‚ the lines read “And curd‚ like eager droppings into milk‚ the thin and wholesome blood.” Giving the reader a gruesome picture of the spread of poison‚ encompassing the king’s body‚ Shakespeare shows

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    "mad in craft" [Shakespeare III.iv.188-199]. Hidden amongst the associates in question‚ exists his cowardly uncle‚ Claudius--the man responsible for the death of Hamlet’s father and Gertrude‚ his unfaithful mother‚ who married Claudius. Hamlet’s “insane” facade is also shown to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern‚ two of Hamlet’s school friends who follow every order given by King Claudius. Hamlet refers his two friends as "sponges" [ IV.2.9-11] for they listen to every

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    Claudius is ambitious man that craves power and unlike other characters of the play he gets and maintains his power in a very immoral way. Claudius‚ because of his obsession to get the power of his brother‚ poisons him and this ignites the start of the revenge going to take place by Hamlet‚ “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown” (1.5.46-47). Claudius’s brother was a great warrior that probably ruled with ideas of justice and moral balance but Claudius is a corrupt politician

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