The use of false faces is readily apparent in literature. The play opens with an elaborate mask‚ Hamlet’s late father. The new King‚ formerly Hamlet’s uncle‚ turns out to be his worst enemy. Hamlet wears his own mask of pretense before his enemies. Gertrude‚ the mother‚ paints on a queenly face‚ admires her outward appearance‚ and tells herself that her actions are not wrong. Lastly‚ Ophelia‚ dutiful daughter to Polonius‚ cooperates with him and the King in an act to betray Hamlet. Shakespeare creates
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use this opportunity to fulfill his revenge‚ he should postpone it so that Claudius would not be able to enter heaven. This brings him to his mother‚ Gertrude‚ who has just finished talking to Polonius in her room when her son comes barging in. While Hamlet is still frustrated and brimming with vengeful anger and Claudius is stricken with guilt‚ Gertrude is in fact quite calm and seems completely un-phased. I think Hamlet is upset that his mother seems to take the death of his father
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only reason why Hamlet can’t kill himself. Hamlet felt that he was the only one that thought that this marriage was an unnatural and starts to dislikes Claudius. Back in the day‚ women were not allowed to marry after their husbands died‚ so when Gertrude marries Claudius‚ Hamlet feels
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weaknesses get the better of him. His jealousy of his brother King Hamlet‚ for his power and his wife Gertrude‚ lead him to poison the King‚ but he really poisoned the whole kingdom. This one action lead to all of the downfalls of this play. Out of fear‚ he tries to keep the murder he committed a secret. When he finds out that Hamlet knows‚ he tries everything to kill him so the secret doesn’t get out. Gertrude happens to get in the way when he tries to poison Hamlet‚ when his other plots to kill him did
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father" (4.5. 128-134). This excerpt provides insight into his mind and shows his thirst for revenge at any cost. In contrast to Laertes’s belief of his father’s killer‚ Hamlet assumes that the individual eavesdropping on the conversation he has with Gertrude is Claudius‚ and he says‚ "Nay‚ I know not: is it the King?" (3.4.28). Consequently‚ Hamlet is consumed with rage and automatically thrusts out with his sword in an attempt to kill Claudius but strikes Polonius instead. Hamlet’s and Laertes’s spontaneous
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Huang 1 Ivy Huang ENG4U Renatha 2014-08-25 Vengeance in Hamlet Time and time again‚ we as a complex society have recognized in many pieces of great literature the idea of man and revenge. Throughout history‚ the idea of vengeance has destroyed large communities‚ populations and entire civilizations. The problem with man and revenge is that one may be side-tracted of why or whom he is avenging. This similar idea is conveyed in the theme of Shakespear’s Hamlet ‚ "Vengeance can confuse a
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staging a play about regicide both fail to work‚ and the difficulty of finding any moral truths quickly takes a toll on Hamlet. For example‚ in Act III scene IV‚ Hamlet converses directly with the ghost in front of his mother. This is unsettling to Gertrude‚ as it would be to anyone. Beholding your son conversing with an apparition immediately after Hamlet murders a man in a fit of rage would earn most people an acquittal from the murder by reason of insanity. This could be explained away by Hamlet’s
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the queens life. The second scheme in the play of one charter entrapping another is Hamlet killing Claudius. Hamlet did not like or admire Claudius because when King Hamlet died Claudius married Gertrude. This was wrong because Claudius was King Hamlet’s brother and because of how quickly Gertrude moved on from King Hamlet. These issues alone did not lead to little Hamlet’s desire of killing Claudius. King Hamlet came back to Earth as a ghost and explained how Claudius was responsible for his
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Hamlet Hamlet is a classic example of a tragedy as Hamlet suffers while trying to avenge his fathers death and eventually dies at the end while attempting to do so. Hamlet feels empty without resolution to his father’s death and since there is no justice system that is 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
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Laertes’ sword and a glass of wine. As they were sword-fighting‚ queen Gertrude drank Hamlet’s wine‚ not knowing it was poisoned. Fighting‚ Laertes strikes Hamlet and in a scuffle the swords are switched and Hamlet strikes Laertes. As Laertes begins dying‚ he confesses‚ “The treacherous instrument is in thy hand‚ unbated and envenomed. The foul practice hath turn’d itself on me… The king‚ the king’s to blame” (5.2.312-316). As Gertrude and Laertes perish‚ Hamlet successfully kills Claudius and departed
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