S. Pierce Hamlet’s Race Against the Clock Patience or procrastination? If you have one‚ then others assume you are doing the other. Is this always true though? It seems in our society people are always in a hurry and need to get things done quickly that patience has lost its virtue and those people have forgotten what it means. In Shakespeare’s drama “Hamlet” this argument has arisen more times than we could count‚ but when it comes to Hamlet and his actions they are mostly of patience and
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Hamlet returns home after he receives the devastating news about the death of his father. When he arrives in Denmark‚ he is welcomed by the incestuous marriage between his mother and uncle‚ Claudius. Hamlet cannot wrap his head around the fact that his mother was able to get over the death of his father after one month. Due to his inability to understand his mother‚ Hamlet starts to ponder the idiocy of the world‚ "How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and
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of Denmark‚ and the son of the late king. He is also the nephew of the new king‚ Claudius‚ who married Hamlet’s mother‚ Queen Gertrude. Hamlet’s father appears as a ghost‚ to tell him that his uncle Claudius is the one responsible for his death. This drafts Hamlet into whether or not he wants to take revenge. He also feels depressed and perplexed to see how sudden his mother had been remarried to someone like Claudius. Horatio and Marcellus‚ Hamlet’s friend and the officer‚ overhear and witness what
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare focuses on the drive of a young prince‚ prince Hamlet‚ who is driven to act out revenge on King Claudius for his role in the death of King Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s father‚ and the many who get trapped between the familial battle and power struggle between Uncle and Nephew. Throughout this tragedy‚ it is the realizations and the hidden truths that trap many of the characters for their ineludible death. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Hamlet and Gertrude are perfectly capable of hearing
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believed Hamlet to have gone mad‚ Polonius was spying on Hamlet. He was eventually caught and stabbed. Although Hamlet believed he was killing his uncle‚ Polonius was dead all the same. Laertes‚ stricken with sadness and anger‚ conspires with King Claudius to end Hamlet’s life‚ for revenge and for justice. His desire for revenge succeeds. He poisons Hamlet‚ but this also leads to his own death‚ and the death of the King and Queen. On his deathbed he feels no joy‚ but regrets the decisions he made‚
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judgement and inner calm. Stoicism was derived from Greek word “stoa” referring to a colonnade and developed by Zeno of Citium. Stoicism was presented in this play when Hamlet disguised himself as madman to avert his uncle’s attention to him as Claudius sees him as a threat. Hamlet discovered the truth behind his father’s death because of the old king’s spirit wandering the castle at night. At this moment he carefully devised a scheme. He tried to wear a mask but not literally‚ in order to hide
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that he doesn’t want to kill Claudius and wonders how he came to be stuck with completing the act (I.v. 189-190). Hamlet delays killing Claudius again after his version of the play‚ saying “Now could I drink hot blood/ And do such bitter business as the bitter day/ Would quake to look on. Soft‚ now to my mother”‚ which shows that Hamlet is procrastinating his uncle’s death by having to talk with his mother (III.ii. 365-367). Hamlet says that he’s ready to kill Claudius‚ but then changes his mind‚
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other female lead portrayed in Hamlet is Gertrude. Gertrude is Hamlet’s mother‚ a queen who betrayed her husband and got seduced by the prince’s uncle Claudius. She remarried with him and thereafter obeyed every order from Claudius. Gertrude is objectified by Claudius‚ as he said: "my crown‚ mine own ambition and my Queen." In this quote‚ Claudius says that the Queen is one of his possessions and that she wasn’t the first. This suggests that he seduced the Queens in an attempt to get to the throne
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ justice‚ revenge‚ and love were big themes in the play. The concept of justice is hard to understand in the play‚ also agreeing that Hamlet also receives justice or revenge for his murdered father. By killing his uncle Claudius‚ does Hamlet truly receive justice or did he seek revenge for his father’s death? Was Hamlet’s doings for the love of his father or the hatred of his uncle? Justice is key for Hamlet because he thinks that he receives justice for the death of his
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Gertrude is Hamlet ’s mother‚ a queen who betrayed her husband and got seduced by the prince ’s uncle Claudius. She remarried with him and thereafter obeyed every order from Claudius. Gertrude is objectified by Claudius‚ as he said: "my crown‚ mine own ambition and my Queen." To him the queen is one of his possessions and not even listed as the first. This suggested Gertrude is used by Claudius to get to the throne. The hasty marriage only a few weeks after her husband ’s death shows her great dependence
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