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    always planning ahead of everybody else. Hamlet had a plan from the beginning of the play. throughout the play hamlet was always sain. He had been planning to kill Claudius because of his new knowledge of how his father died. hamlet had been called by Horatio to talk to a ghost of his father. Hamlet talked to him and found out that Claudius had killed his father with poison. It was then when he decided to act like he was insane to get revenge. “To put an antic disposition” pg. 82 line 191. Hamlet is

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    Analysis Of Hamlet Act 3

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    he calls women “two faced” and “untrustworthy”. Hamlet speaks honestly to his mother‚ scaring her with his harshness. Hamlet has a moral compass yet he chooses to use it only when it will benefit him. He doesn’t kill Claudius while Claudius is praying because he knows that Claudius will go to heaven. He wants to make sure that when

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    Gregory Doran's Hamlet

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    choices which may appear seemingly trivial at first glance‚ such as the actors cast themselves‚ can go so far as to put an entirely new spin on things. To give an example‚ Patrick Stewart‚ who played both Claudius and the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father in the David Tennant version‚ also played Claudius alongside Derek Jacobi’s Hamlet in a made-for-TV movie broadcast thirty years prior. Jacobi himself

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    next night. Hamlet leaves Rosencrantz and Guildenstrens and stands alone in the room. He thinks that he will set a trap for Claudius by forcing him to watch a play whose closely resembles the murder of Hamlet’s father. Rosencrantz‚ Guildenstern‚ The King and The Queen discuss Hamlet’s behavior. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell that Hamlet have a passion on the players. Claudius decides to spy on Hamlet’s confrontation with Ophelia along with Polonius. Polonius asks Ophelia to walk on the lobby‚ and

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    Mankind has a history of finding a way to speak out against injustice‚ whether it be newspapers‚ television‚ or word of mouth. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s father was killed by his uncle‚ Claudius‚ and his mother married Claudius soon after his father’s burial. This causes Hamlet to be furious and to seek to avenge his father’s death. Shakespeare tries to explain to his readers that they have the power to speak out against their individual situations in their unique ways. Shakespeare uses Hamlet

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    marriage of his mother with Claudius. The foul play that Hamlet suspected becomes a reality and he is charged by the spirit of his dead father to avenge his father’s murder of which he is incapable. The duty is thus imposed on Hamlet and his failure to carry it out in proper time form the substance of the tragedy. With the Ghost’s description of Claudius and Gertrude‚ Hamlet as well as the spectators comes to know them in their true colours. Hence Hamlet condemns Claudius as ‘smiling damned villian’

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    young prince who returns to Denmark from his studies after his father’s death. Hamlet sees his mother‚ the queen marry his father’s brother‚ Claudius which makes him very upset. Hamlet believes King Claudius killed his father so he makes a plan to get revenge but something always stops him for example‚ he thinks about

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    the ghost talks to him. It tells him about how it was murdered. The ghost tells Hamlet that it was Claudius who killed Hamlet’s

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    Madness In Hamlet

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    his foul and most unnatural murder.” For the next four acts‚ the plot revolves around Hamlet attempting to kill and expose Claudius. Hamlet even makes sure that Claudius does not have the slightest hope of reaching heaven. In act III‚ scene III‚ Hamlet is about to kill his father’s murderer‚ but Hamlet thinks the scoundrel is praying. Hamlet

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    Laertes nearly overthrows Claudius‚ who he thinks killed his father‚ while it was in fact Hamlet. With Hamlet becoming increasingly unstable‚ Laertes and Claudius both plot to kill Hamlet‚ which ends up being everyone’s downfall. Just before Laertes and Hamlet duel‚ Laertes himself begins to have second thoughts about what he thinks is going to be the death of Hamlet‚ but it’s too late. Their plan falls apart‚ Laertes and Hamlet are both fatally injured‚ Hamlet finally kills Claudius‚ who accidentally poisons

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