Hamlet and Gertrude and Claudius A close look at the relationships between Ophelia and Hamlet and Gertrude and Claudius‚ will illustrate that betrayal‚ selfishness and lack of love caused their destruction. There are many examples of betrayal in the play Hamlet. In these examples betrayal leads to the destruction of relationships. Claudius is the king of Denmark and he will do anything to stay that way. His wife Gertrude loves her son Hamlet and Claudius knows that. In order to stay
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Hamlet and Claudius can prove this‚ since they both disturb the chain in the play. In the play‚ Hamlet is the son of the former king. When King Hamlet dies‚ Claudius inherits the throne because Hamlet is too young to be King. Afterward‚ Hamlet finds out that it was Claudius that killed his father‚ so he devotes himself in avenging his father’s death. Although he is trying to set the chain back to normal‚ but also disturbing it‚ since Claudius is King. While Hamlet finds a way to kill Claudius‚ he acts
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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Claudius completes many evil acts. Claudius does many kinds of evil things throughout the whole story‚ and Claudius causes everyone’s death. First‚ Claudius kills Claudius’s brother‚ Hamlet’s father‚ then Claudius marries Gertrude to be king. Next‚ Claudius sends Hamlet to England because hamlet killed Polonius‚ father of Laertes and Claudius knew Hamlet would find troube there. Caudius wrote a leter to the King of England saying if they see
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Guilt Jealously and guilt are common motives for a course of action. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the murder of the king and Claudius’ prompt rise to the throne are obvious examples of envy. But‚ the play’s illustration of guilt is much more subtle and is revealed through the struggle Claudius experiences with his feelings that result from a repercussion of his actions. Claudius claims that Hamlet is mad‚ even though he does not believe so‚ to cause a diversion from the brutal truth. This idea is proven
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During the evolution of humans‚ in every culture certain people are cursed from birth. In ancient Greece‚ these people were known as tragic heroes. The stories of these tragic heroes are known as tragedies‚ some of the earliest known tragedies are Medea and Oedipus the King. As stated in The Vocabulary of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern English by Francis Blessington the Greeks believed‚ “a hero must explicitly accept his fate. But in Greek tragedy‚ the hero or heroine or the play itself questions
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A tragic hero was interpreted by Miller in a way that he changed the core meaning of a tragic hero ‚ which is by Aristotles definition‚ a hero of noble birth ‚ hamartia ‚ peripeteia and the audience should feel pity for the hero. Miller transformed the hero into Willy Loman ‚ who is not of noble birth with no clear hamartia or perpeteia and the audience do not feel much pitty for him. But still ‚ he is the tragic hero of Death Of A Salesman. Greek Mythology is showed throughout the play too
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the new king Claudius. After his father’s funeral he is confronted by his father’s ghost. Hamlet believes that he has to listen to the ghost‚ when who replied "So art thou to revenge‚ when thou shalt hear”(1.5.7); Hamlet then accepted the fact he has to take revenge on Claudius‚ and in the end he does actually get his revenge. Hamlet believes that he must first prove Claudius’s guilt before acting on his revenge. At the end of Act 2 Scene 1 Hamlet reveals his plan to entrap Claudius‚ to show his
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Throughout the course of the play‚ Claudius is manipulating the royal court and Hamlet. Immediately following his murder of the late king of Denmark‚ he cons the royal court into believing that the passing of the late king caused him much grief. However‚ Claudius exhibits no contrition for murdering the king because of “fruits” he had gained from it: “[his] crown‚ [his] own ambition‚ and [his queen]”
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going to reveal the truth about his father’s death‚ he must take it into his own hands. Hamlet delays killing Claudius for a long time after the ghost appears. Hamlet delays his revenge of his fathers death not because he is a coward but because his psychological feelings and need for a perfect revenge cause him to delay in order to wait for the perfect moment to kill Claudius. When the ghost first appears to Hamlet he tells him that it was his brother who slipped poison in his ear while
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possesses many of the six characteristics that Aristotle described. These characteristics did not aid so greatly in Bonney’s short lived life‚ but they did assist in allowing his legacy to last eternally. One of Billy the Kid’s characteristics was hamartia; “the flaw in character which leads to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy” (Collins English Dictionary). The Kid’s wild ways and slight absence of empathy caused him to be involved in dangerous and decisional situations. William’s first
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