tragedy Hamlet‚ pretends he is insane after secretly discovering Claudius‚ his uncle‚ has murdered Hamlet’s father. Claudius is the new king of Denmark‚ taking the throne after his late brother’s death‚ and he has recently married Hamlet’s mother‚ Gertrude. Claudius mimics emotion but acts without it‚ manipulating people to do his dirty work for him; consequently‚ he is a sociopath. The strongest characteristic of a sociopath is the ability to manipulate
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Claudius also arranges to have cup of poisoned wine ready for Hamlet in case Laertes fails to win the duel. Hamlet wins the first round but insists to keep the duel going rather than taking a drink. After Hamlet wins the second round as well‚ Queen Gertrude mistakenly sips from the poisoned cup in celebration and eventually dies from poisoning. Laertes is finally able to wound Hamlet but afterwards the two get into a scuffle and manage to swap their foils. Before Hamlet passes away‚ he wounds Laertes
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In this play Shakespeare utilizes monologues‚ a long piece of dialogue spoken by a single character with others present on stage‚ to help add depth to the story and the characters that are in “Hamlet”. Shakespeare uses a monologue in Act 1‚ Scene 2‚ lines 1-38‚ this passage is the speech King Claudius is giving to the court about the recent events that have occurred in the kingdom recently. This monologue allows the reader to get a deeper sense of King Claudius’s character and style of rule‚ and
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and deceit is shown throughout many of the characters an example would be when Hamlet is sent to England to get killed and deceives his friends by having them get killed instead. Claudius also does some lying too in this play like when he tricks Gertrude to marry him and kills the previous King Hamlet just so he can be king. This seems to relate a lot with today’s society when it comes to
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death of King Hamlet. In the process of killing Claudius‚ his uncle‚ most of the people that played a major role in Hamlet’s life end up dying‚ even himself. Through this entire aspiration of killing Claudius and avenging the death of his father‚ Gertrude‚ Ophelia‚ Polonius‚ and Laertes all end up dead even before Claudius is finally killed and the goal has been accomplished. The tragedy of Hamlet is all the blood that must be shed (even his own) in order to accomplish his goal of avenging his father’s
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if it means deceiving the ones they love. King Claudius was in love with his brother¹s wife and desired his position as king. In order to obtain these things he went behind Gertrude‚ his lover¹s‚ back and murdered her husband. Shortly after‚ he married her and took the crown. Not only was this extremely deceitful to Gertrude‚ but it hurt Hamlet‚ his nephew‚ extremely. Lady Macbeth was indeed as power hungry as Claudius‚ and she too plotted a murder in order for her husband to obtain the crown. In
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Insanity’s instigator is a blurred line in Shakespeare’s novel. The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark‚ focuses on Hamlet’s erosive desire to avenge his father’s death. It is critical to look at not only the protagonist of the play‚ but also at the instrumental characters who contribute to the dynamic nature of the story; the progressive contagion of insanity throughout the court. One such character is the young noblewoman Ophelia. Often overlooked whilst residing in Hamlet’s shadow‚ Ophelia and
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Ophelia; a Rose? Shakespeare writes of a strong and wilful woman in the story of Romeo and Juliette. Juliette‚ the leading woman in this play‚ was torn from her lover‚ Romeo‚ but rather than standing back and accepting the inevitable‚ she fights for what she believes to be right. Even though her life ended tragically‚ she was still admired for finally getting what she wants. She said she would not‚ and could not live without Romeo‚ and she did not back down from her strong objective. In contrast
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Early in the play‚ Hamlet’s jealousy over the marriage of Gertrude and Claudius causes him depression‚ self-loathing‚ and thoughts of suicide. With the marriage causing Hamlet more angst than the death of his father as evidenced by Hamlet’s first soliloquy after the marriage in which he briefly mentions his father’s
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discussion of the play by both critics and readers alike. Prince Hamlet‚ in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ is not mad‚ in terms of sanity. However‚ he is very mad‚ in terms of anger‚ at many of the people that surround him. Hamlet is mainly mad at Gertrude her mother and‚ most of all Claudius. Although he is extremely angry with Claudius and his own whole situation of his father being murdered; his mother marrying his father’s murderer; and his lady friend not talking to him‚ Hamlet remains sane in
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