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    4.1 1. No‚ Gertrude does not tell Claudius the entire truth about what happened between her and Hamlet. She tells him that Hamlet killed Polonius and that Hamlet is going insane. Hamlet advised her to tell Claudius that he is crazy and not tell him that she knows that he is faking it. 2. Claudius understands the implications of Hamlet’s killing Polonius. He orders Hamlet to be sent to England and secretly arranges him to be put to death when he is in England. Claudius understands that he could

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    Is Hamlet Mad?

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    Is Hamlet Mad (His Indecisive Soliloquies)? A controversy occurs over whether Hamlet’s behaviour displays craziness or planned insightfulness when deciding on his revenge on King Claudius. Prince Hamlet’s life unfortunately spirals out of hand when his father mysteriously dies. Suspicion of the possible murder of the king rises when his mother immediately marries King Claudius. Hamlet becomes extremely skeptical believing that his father did not die of murder and concludes that King Claudius

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    Family in Hamlet

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    Claudius: “But now‚ my cousin Hamlet and my son‚” 
Hamlet: [Aside] “A little more than kin‚ and less than kind” Claudius: “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

” Hamlet: “Not so‚ my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.” 

Gertrude: “Good Hamlet‚ cast thy nighted color off”. (1.2.66-70) Hamlet’s continued mourning while Claudius is needfully desirous that Hamlet stop mourning his father’s death and start celebrating his mother’s new husband‚ the country’s new King and his own new father.

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    Hamlet Analysis

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    Hamlet Analysis Compare language features and language change in Hamlet’s soliloquy Hamlet is a 16th century play written by William Shakespeare. The story is about a young man named Hamlet whose father has passed away and his mother has liaisons with Hamlet’s uncle‚ his father’s brother. The soliloquy describes Hamlet’s feelings and emotions while he is going through a very difficult time. During the course of the soliloquy there are many examples of features of language change. For example‚

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    Franco Zeffirelli 1990s Hamlet is far from identical to Shakespeare’s play‚ but it’s an interpretation that works. Having read Hamlet before watching the film I question some of Zeffirelli’s changes but I can understand why. One major change Zeffirelli makes to the original text is that he adds the Oedipus Complex I believe Zeffirelli made this change because he wanted a more of a relationship for Hamlet other than Ophelia‚ it adds more tension between Claudius and Hamlet‚ and last added more to

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    Hamlet and Conflict

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    effectively explored throughout drama. In Hamlet‚ Shakespeare delves into the themes of appearance versus reality‚ lies versus deceit‚ rejection versus self doubt and tragedy‚ and in which doing so‚ challenges the state of humanity in the Elizabethan society. In order to explore these themes‚ however‚ he uses several forms of conflict to emphasise his opinions and expand his ideas relating to the themes of the play. Internal conflict as well as external conflict in Hamlet is made evident through a succession

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    Hamlet Evolution

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    Hamlet evolves during the course of the play. Nowhere is this more visible (and audible) than in his soliloquies. For instance‚ his soliloquies in Act II‚ Act II‚ and Act IV are each distinctively different from one another. This is even evident in the punctuation Shakespeare uses. The number of exclamation points Shakespeare uses in writing Hamlet’s soliloquies decreases significannot ly during the course of the play. In Act II‚ Hamlet is blaming himself for many problems. He is angry with himself

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    present are full of controlling love. In HamletHamlet Jr. loves his dead father so much at he forgets everything and kills anything that might help his dead father’s ghost. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo kills Paris and himself to be with Juliet in the afterlife. Juliet does the same for him after she sees his dead body. In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ Porphyria dies because she is controlling her lover and then gets controlled when she’s killed by her lover. In Hamlet‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ and Romeo and Juliet

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    other versions of you who walk‚ talk‚ and act just like you‚ with slightly different decisions that coincide with the major difference of that world. There may even be a world in which you were your generation’s Einstein‚ or their OJ Simpson. In Candide by Voltaire‚ Dr. Pangloss states that we as a people live in the best of all possible worlds‚ when in fact there are infinite possibilities‚ some better and some worse than our own. In my project‚ I used this theory to illustrate that we do not live

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    Soliloquies of Hamlet

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    and quick submission to Claudius makes Hamlet believe that something is awry in the affairs of Denmark. Hamlet idealized his parents and their relationship‚ and he bemoans the fact that although his father doted on his mother and was a good husband and father‚ she rushed into a relationship with another man‚ much less Hamlet’s uncle‚ a man that differs from his father in almost every respect. In his description of Denmark‚ he uses a metaphor to compare the country to "an unweeded garden/That

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