mad‚ and has no idea who he is talking to. Hamlet is the only one who sees the ghost. She tells him that it is his imagination that he is seeing things. That they mind can hallucinate‚ when you have gone mad. A#4 Question 4: The two reasons for why Claudius has not taken action on Hamlet is: 1) The Queen is his mother and she is loves him more than anything. She is a big part of the king’s life “she’s so conjunctive to my life and soul” (Shakespeare 1879)‚ and he cannot live without her. The second
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Shakespearean play Hamlet‚ the main actor hamlet has been battling the death of his father for two months until a mysterious ghost claiming to be his father‚ appears and tells hamlet the story of the events in which the cause was brought upon by his uncle‚ Claudius. In order to find out if what this paranormal creature is saying is the absolute truth‚ Hamlet must act as if he was crazy in order to unveil
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dissimilar. Hamlet appears discouraged with life; he comes across very melancholy and theatrical. At the beginning of the play‚ Hamlet’s father‚ King Hamlet‚ has recently died‚ and his mother‚ Queen Gertrude‚ has married the new king‚ Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. Hamlet is dejected‚ astringent‚ and sceptical‚ full of hatred for his uncle and disgust at his mother for marrying him. This is very contradictory to the first portrayal of Macbeth. At the begging of the play‚ Macbeth is shows as an energized‚ forceful
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relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is somewhat questionable. It’s debatable over Hamlet’s madness; at times it’s obvious Hamlet feigned certain spells of madness to confuse Ophelia but it was mainly on behalf of King Claudius – to catch him out over his plans (Act 3‚ Scene 1). However it is questionable near the end of the play whether Hamlet’s madness does become genuine‚ after all his traumatic actions to Ophelia‚ killing her father‚ denying her love‚ perhaps near the
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of cursed hebenon in a vial‚/And in the porches of my ears did pour/The leperous distilment‚ whose effect/Holds such an enmity with blood of man…” (1. 5. 59-79). Here‚ Branagh chooses to use flashbacks to illustrate King Hamlet’s back-story of how Claudius killed him to the audience. Furthermore‚ in the conversation between Hamlet and the ghost‚ the main purpose is for the ghost to tell Hamlet to revenge for Claudius’s horrible murder (1. 5. 1-91). In this exchange of dialogue‚ Branagh does not cut
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Antonio Tempesta’s painting Hecuba a Graecis‚ Hamlet by Shakespeare‚ and Ovid’s Hecuba can have many different meanings to it. Everyone has a different interpretation of the Hecuba a Graecis. Interpreting art and poems can make you see the world in a way that you have never seen before. Tearing up and breaking down what artists and writers had to say is the best way to understand. Painters express their emotion through their paintings and writers express them through their writings. If we can figure
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It is under much strain that I withhold the flood of tears behind my eyes. For if the levy bursts‚ I fear I may meet a fate much like dear Ophelia. My dear Ophelia… my friend‚ my sister… I am aghast by your drowning‚ there was so much more for you in this world‚ you were like a blossoming flower‚ emerging into the light for all to see… and now‚ without even slowly wilting away‚ you are gone‚ and I am alone. Oh God‚ why would you take her and leave me so alone‚ and so soon after our own father’s
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craft.” Ophelia on the other hand tells noone that she is mad. she comes to the queen in act 4.5 and her gentle woman tells Gertrude that Ophelia is “importunate \ indeed distract: / her mood will need be pitied.” Then in act 4.7‚ Laertes says to Claudius that he’s lost his father to death and his sister to psychological desperation. There isn’t any doubt on who really went mad in this book. Hamlet was mad‚ but wasn’t the crazy kind of mad. He is angry at the fact that his father was murdered. Ophelia
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Often times life will present one with a situation where the best decision is to take action. In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”‚ Hamlet’s second soliloquy reveals Hamlet’s initial inability to take action due to his lack of courage. Hamlet begins by stating that he has become a “rogue and peasant slave” to his grief. [2.2‚ 561] Hamlet has seen true passion in the players recount of Hecuba and now questions why he cannot have the same passion over his butchered father. Hamlet feels the power of his
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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the man of utter intelligence and esoteric ability waxes insanity‚ laying the foundation of his battlefield in preparation for retribution against his uncle Claudius. Learning the name of the crown-wearing murderer during a dissertation with his late father‚ Hamlet swears vengeance with tenacious bravado; and with speed similar to the henbane poison that had coursed through the former King’s veins‚ Hamlet proceeds to swear his fellow sentinels into a secrecy of utmost
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