outside‚ yet on the inside they are completely different. The theme of appearance versus reality surrounds Hamlet due to the fact that the characters portray themselves as one person on the outside‚ and one different on the inside. In the play‚ Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle‚ appears to be kind‚ gentle‚ and caring on the outside‚ but in actual fact‚ he uses his loving behavior as a mask to cover up the fact that he is a selfish‚ mean‚ and cold murderer. The women in Hamlet appear to live happy and
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In the play Hamlet‚ there are only two main female characters that both play an extremely compelling and difficult manifestation of love. Ophelia and Gertrude never have a scene together‚ or alone. Ophelia does not have another female confidant to talk to and Gertrude also doesn’t have anyone to talk to about her secret feelings. The only relationships between these women are with men‚ and most of the men surrounding them don’t really care about their feelings‚ or value their worth. Ophelia’s
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development in Hamlet &Claudius and use of dramatic techniques present values in ‘Hamlet’ those of which are timeless. These enduring values include guilt‚ corruption and life & death. Shakespeare has used various dramatic techniques to express his idea and enduring value of guilt. In Act 1‚ as Polonius talks about ‘the devil hiding’‚ Shakespeare uses a dramatic technique as Claudius acknowledges his conscience in an aside‚ “how smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience”. Claudius is the villain
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father visits him and explains that his Uncle Claudius was the one who murdered him. Claudius married Gertrude‚ who is Hamlets mother‚ and Hamlet is depressed from all the horrible things that happened and plans revenge. To try to show Claudius’ guilt he hires actors to do a play about a man who kills his brother to become the King. He tells his mother about what has been happening and why he’s been acting crazy and kills Ophelia’s father thinking it is Claudius. Ophelia is Hamlets girlfriend and she drowns
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moment‚ Hamlet will not be able to achieve his goal: Not only wants to make Claudius pay for his father’s murder‚ but he wants to punish him in the worst way he knows: eternal damnation. He wants Claudius to suffer in the worst way he knows‚ and in the same way his father was forced to suffer. Hamlet’s extravagant plan on vengeance is an attempt to right the wrong that Claudius has set on him. The single act of Claudius murdering the King sets a world of wrongs on Hamlet‚ his family‚ and his God
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play. After King Hamlet’s death‚ his brother‚ Claudius‚ becomes king‚ and marries King Hamlet’s widow‚ Gertrude (Queen of Denmark). Young Hamlet fears that Claudius killed his own brother (Hamlet’s father) to become king of Denmark‚ greatly angering Hamlet. Two officers‚ Marcellus and Barnardo‚ summon Hamlet’s friend Horatio‚ and later Hamlet himself to see the late King Hamlet’s ghost appear at midnight. The ghost tells Hamlet privately that Claudius had indeed murdered King Hamlet by pouring poison
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affection‚ so quickly forget her love and remarry Claudius so quickly. "Why‚ she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on"‚ to hamlet gertrudes actions were not only an act of weakness but poor judgment. Hamlet is fond of his father and compares Gertrude’s transition from his father to Claudius as if going from a god to an animal. "So excellent a king; that was‚ to this‚ Hyperion to a satyr" (Act 1‚ scene 2) Gertrude for her part is not particularly evil or sinister
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In Act I Scene II of Hamlet‚ Gertrude asks Hamlet‚ "Why seems it so particular with thee?" Since death is common to all‚ she asks‚ why does Hamlet seem to be making such a particular fuss about his father’s death? He replies‚ "Seems Madam? Nay it is. I know not seems." It is not a question of seeming‚ but being: His black mourning clothes are simply a true representation of his deep unhappiness. With this line‚ Shakespeare develops the theme of appearance versus reality and that he intends to stress
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lastly the greed for power. Characters in “Hamlet” act blindly through anger and emotion that leads them to their own undoing. King Claudius manipulates the Queen of Denmark‚ Gertrude making her believe he is a good king. He also tries to disguises himself as a loving and caring father to Hamlet to gain Gertrude’s trust. When discovering King Hamlet died‚ King Claudius tries to console Hamlet with soft words. In the speech‚ “death of fathers‚ and who still hath cried‚ from the first corse till he that
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important factor of his personality and the era the play was written in. Hamlet treats his love‚ Ophelia and his mother‚ Gertrude with little respect. I believe that the anger Hamlet subjects to Ophelia is brought on by his feelings about his mother‚ Gertrude. Gertrude marries Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle‚ after Hamlet’s father is killed. Hamlet feels resent towards his mother for marrying Claudius. William Shakespeare writes the character Hamlet to be a complicated character who treats the women of the play
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