In this book “Hamlet” Hamlet is obsessed with suicide even though he never does it. Hamlet falls in deep love in the book and Hamlet’s mother marries Hamlet’s uncle after his uncle kills the king with poison. Claudius killed Hamlet Sr with poison in his ear and then not long after marries his wife. Hamlet then is told about a ghost that is haunting the kingdom Hamlet declares to see this ghost and ask it questions because they think it is his father. Hamlet sees the ghost and ask it what its purpose
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In Act II Claudius‚ Polonius‚ Gertrude and even Ophelia spend their time spying on Hamlet to find out his true disposition. This is dramatic irony since we and Hamlet know something significant while the other characters do not. Polonius‚ the father of Ophelia‚ whom is the lover of Hamlet‚ comes to a conclusion that Hamlet is mad from neglected love. Polonius assumes this as he used Ophelia as a bate for him to trap Hamlet. Also‚ here it seems as Polonius and Claudius are in this together to plan
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conflict Shakespeare uses to expand and explore the ideas presented within the text is the conflict between the self and the universe. Old Hamlet is killed by his brother Claudius. Only two months after her husband’s death a vulnerable Gertrude marries her husband’s brother Claudius. Gertrude’s weakness opens the door for Claudius to take the throne as the king of Denmark. Hamlet is outraged by this‚ he loses respect for his mother as he feels that she has rejected him and has taken no time to mourn
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As the scene opens‚ Claudius is horrified by Hamlet’s play and believes that it is not safe to let Hamlet’s craziness get out of hand. Claudius’s plan for Hamlet is to send him to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern showed loyalty for the King and Queen by doing what they were asked to. However‚ they showed disloyalty towards Hamlet by going against him just to follow through with the King and Queens demands. Claudius reveals that he had killed his older brother
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his father the respect and dignity he deserves‚ through the vengeance of King Hamlet’s murder by Claudius. “Now to my word. It is ‘Adieu‚ adieu‚ remember me’. I have sworn’t.” (I‚ v‚ 111-112) This evening encounter then leads to the obsessive thoughts that begin to take over Hamlet’s mind‚ as he decides to devote his entire willpower and occupy his mind with only thoughts of how to serve Claudius a fair punishment and death‚ no matter who or what is destroyed in the process. “This is most brave
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“[realizes] that someone is behind the arras and [suspects] that it might be Claudius‚ [crying]‚ “How now! a rat?” (III.iv.22). In the wake of Claudius unchristian and corrupt deed‚ Hamlet becomes severely emotionally distraught to the point of going against one of the staple moral codes of his religion. Additionally‚ Hamlet dehumanizing Claudius to the level of a rat not only validates Hamlet’s negative view of Claudius‚ but reveals the animal that Hamlet will become if he breaks the Christian morals
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depressed and angry at the fact that he didn’t know how his father passed. His reactions to his tests to see if claudius was the murderer were angry yet good. I believed he then was able to commit to avenge his father. In the last act he killed polonius which was not that hard for him or he didn’t feel guilt for killing him. The reason being was he was part of the people who helped Claudius claim the throne and marry his brother’s wife. Although he did that he then knew that polonius’s son laertes
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Gertrude’s loyalty to Hamlet and Claudius‚ Ophelia’s loyalty to her father and Hamlet and the court’s loyalty to Old Hamlet and Claudius. Betrayal is also present in Hamlet and acts as a counterpoint to the idea of loyalty. Hamlet is given the task of righting a betrayal‚ of being loyal in a disloyal world. There also some shifting loyalties apparent in Hamlet‚ including Gertrude’s shifting loyalty from Claudius to Hamlet and Laertes’ shift of loyalty to Claudius later on in the play. The loyalty
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He then joins in conference with King Claudius and he explains to Laertes that it was Hamlet who killed his father and the reason why he couldn’t charge Hamlet for it because of his mother Queen Gertrude. So King Claudius produces a plan to get rid of Hamlet but would also benefit Laertes. He would challenge Hamlet to a duel in which Laertes sword will be dipped in poison and anything
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Brutus and Hamlet reflect at length over the need to act‚ Brutus is able immediately to act while Hamlet is not. Hamlet is stuck thinking too precisely on th’ event-. Hamlet’s father‚ the king of Denmark‚ has died suddenly. The dead king’s brother‚Claudius‚ marries Hamlet’s mother and swiftly assumes the throne‚ a throne that Hamlet fully expected would be his upon the death of his father. Hamlet’s father’s ghost confronts Hamlet and tells him that his death was not natural‚ as reported‚ but instead
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