I decided, along with Carol, to perform Act III, Scene I, from Hamlet, when Ophelia obeys her father and tests Hamlet's love for her by returning his remembrances. ... Our scene starts after the end of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy when he makes the aside, "The fair Ophelia!" ... When Ophelia attempts to return Hamlet's letters, he denies them by saying, "No, not I. ... The last line of this section, "Where is your father", could be translated as him asking where the keeper or guardian of her chastity is. ... Ophelia answers that he is at home and Hamlet's resp...

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He does love Laertes, but fears what Laertes may do to his name. ... He becomes infuriated with the idea of Ophelia and Hamlet spending time together. ... He forbids Ophelia to see Hamlet because he fears that her actions may render him a fool. ... Polonius senses that Hamlet is mad and believes it is because of his love for Ophelia. ... The king is approached by Polonius to spy on Hamlet and Ophelia. ...

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However, Hamlet cannot get help from Ophelia. ... Hamlet says, "By what it fed on, and yet within a month-let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman!"... Hamlet visits Ophelia. ... He wants to depend on Ophelia, but since he rejects from her, Hamlet keeps stare Ophelia as he leaves a room. ... At last, Hamlet believes about the friendship. ...

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A prince named Hamlet is the main character. ... While Hamlet was away, Ophelia, Hamletgirlfriend, was acting strangely. Although it was never admitted, Ophelia had become insane. ... Hamlet finally found that it was Ophelia who had died. ... Before Hamlet spoke his last word, he asked Horatio to tell people what happened and give the throne to Fortinbras, a neighboring leader. ...

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Hamlets love for Ophelia is another tragic point of the play. ... "Frailty, thy name is woman!"... Throughout the rest of the play, its hard to say whether Hamlet still loves Ophelia or whether this love has turned into bitter feelings. ... The last tragedy in the play is his own death, as well as most of the other main characters in the play, all at once. This last scene sums up all the reasons that Hamlet is a tragedy. ...

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Laertes warns Ophelia against being with Hamlet. ... Hamlet asks how long corpses ask and the Gravedigger tells him that if the body is not rotten before he dies it'll last eight or nine years. Perhaps Claudius is rotten enough not to last. ... Polonius tells Ophelia Hamlet's love may not be true. ... Hamlet compares his mother's grief to Niobe to show that his mother's grief was false because it didn't last long. ...

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Up until that point, Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia, but Ophelia has been told to dodge all of his affections. ... Later on in the play, once Ophelia has drowned after the death of Polonius, Hamlet regrets what he's said and done to Ophelia. As he fights with Laertes at Ophelia's funeral, Hamlet shouts out, "I loved Ophelia. ... Hamlet won't ever be able to change the last days of his and Ophelia's relationship; it's something he'll have to live with. ... But now, towards the end, he takes full responsibility and doesn't try to clear his name. ...

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(lines 121-122) It is also apparent to us that Hamlet is clearly aware that Ophelia's father Polonius is spying on him as he asks Ophelia " Where is your father?" (line 131) Ophelia is torn back and forth emotionally by Hamlet in this scene and begins to feel Hamlet maybe mad after all. ... As the possible creator of Ophelia's madness by casting her aside and killing her father, Hamlet clearly loved her as shown in Act 5 Scene 1 " I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up the sum-what wilt thou do for her?" ... Act 2 Scene 1 Opheli...

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Hamlet and Laertes both love Ophelia. Hamlet wants Ophelia to be his wife and Laertes loves Ophelia as a sister. ... In Act V when Hamlet and Laertes both jump into Ophelia's grave is evidence to the fact that Hamlet can indeed act impulsively. ... In Act III Hamlet tells Ophelia to "Get thee to a Nunn"ry, why wouldst thou be a Breeder of Sinners?" ... In the last scene of the play the true character of Fortinbras is most clearly demonstrated. ...

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He thinks Ophelia is a fool for believing in Hamlet's professions of love. ... Polonius is mainly paranoid with his daughter ruining the family name by sleeping with Hamlet. ... Long stayed he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm, And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk, And end his being. ... Not only is Ophelia used by Hamlet in his scheme, but by Polonius and Claudius together. ... She becomes an ornament through which Claudius attempts to spy on Hamlet by seeing how Hamlet interacts with Opheli...

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Hamlet, Laertes, and Ophelia are all loyal children who exhibit varying degrees of madness after their fathers" untimely deaths. ... Hamlet meets with Ophelia, acting very strangely, so she goes and tells her father, Polonius, then he goes to the king claiming Hamlet is lovesick. ... After Hamlet kills her father, Ophelia really loses touch with reality. ... This is the last straw that pushes her faithful brother Laertes to consider murder. ... Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. ...

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Hamlet Analysis Hamlet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare tells the story of a young man named Hamlet. ... The next to die is Ophelia, she, is entirely controlled by Hamlet and the King, for their own selfish reasons. ... Last to die was Laertes, it is easily seen how Laertes, in the heat of his anger could conspire to murder, though he kills Hamlet he is avenging his fathers' death, an act, with reference to the moral climate of the 1600's. ... Leartes and Hamlet both share a deep love and concern for Ophelia. ... Leartes is able to control Ophelia's opinion of Hamlet and...

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loyal subject and right-hand man, detests Hamlet because he thinks Hamlet is madly in love with his daughter Ophelia. ... Polonius spends much energy, in his last few days of life, on finding a language for a madman, trying-as in II, ii-at the same time to humour and to analyse Hamlet? ... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern continue their voyage to England and this trip proves to be their last. ... At the end of the play Fortinbras comes and names Denmark in the name of Norway. ... The Name of Action.? ...

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While speaking, Hamlet creates an atmosphere because he repeats the last words the ghost has told him, "Adieu, adieu, remember me" (Act 1 scene 5). ... This soliloquy also shows his character because of the way Hamlet talks about himself and how he uses harsh language and calls himself names such as rogue, peasant slave ass and whore. ... The last few lines likewise say Ophelia, and as the audience knows Ophelia declines to see him now and Hamlet is acting mad towards her. This demonstrates that Hamlet keeps on acting mad and seek for vengeance and he is also aware that he will lose ...

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The conflict in the play is subtle and drawn out rather than explosive as in "A Streetcar Named Desire- - but control remains the source of all male/female conflict. ... Bloom, Harold, ed., Tennessee Williams (1986); Miller, Jordan Yale, Twentieth Century Interpretations of a Streetcar Named Desire (1971). ... A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Second, the majority of well-established English literature was written over the course of the last several centuries, during which women were generally oppressed and relegated to second-class status. ... Hamlet himself exists within an environment of m...

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Has the last years of your life at this school been a waste? ... To do this I have changed Hamlet to a female who is pregnant, and Ophelia is the father of the baby. ... And the reason that I have changed Ophelia to a male is because of the situation that she is in when the king is using her to get to hamlet and her father is using her and she is being pulled around and used she would have to be a male with strong will power and mentally stable and because a male would represent her masculinity. ... Winona was born Winona Horowitz and named after her the town in which she was born, Winona...

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Hamlet thinks up the "Mouse-trap", a play about a King named Gonzago who is murdered the same way as Lord Hamlet was murdered. ... Also, they lead to Claudius discovering that Hamlet knows that Claudius tried to have Hamlet killed. Ophelia, Polonius's daughter, the woman he apparently once loved, drowns herself from her insanity which was brought upon by his rejecting of her love, and then was worsened by the effect of her father's death on her. His mother's marriage to her brother-in-law causes his relationship with Ophelia to deteriorate. ... Hamlet's inner conflict that ...

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Horatio invites Hamlet to join then that night, Hamlet agrees, suspecting the ghost might be connected to his father's death. ... Does Hamlet lack courage? ... Hamlet insults and offends the Kings on many occasions, calling him names and by harassing his mother, the queen. ... He fights with Laertes twice, in the grace of Ophelia and in the duel. ... This last quote explains quite accurately how Hamlet lived his life, or better yet, started to live his life. ...

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Hamlets first obstacle when he gets back is finding out that Ophelia has died. His only true love is dead , which is seen when Hamlet says," I loved Ophelia. ... How ever, Hamlet was smart and changed the name to While being in England Hamlet finds out what the king really wanted to do with , he wanted him to be executed. Hamlet was smart and changed the names to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern . ... Hagar and Hamlet have completed their journeys successfully , understanding their purpose at last and died peacefully. ...

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Hamlet's revenge comes with great cost to all. His previous inability to act and take revenge sooner caused the death of both his mother (who drank the poison that was meant for Hamlet) and Ophelia (who committed suicide because of Hamlet's murder of her father Polonius). ... Hamlet names him new ruler of Denmark before he dies. ... Laertes avenged his father's death by killing Hamlet. ... The last person who was seeking revenge was Fortenbras who not only got his revenge by getting his land back, but also because he became the new ruler of Denmark. ...

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Ros and Guil, as they are affectionately named in this text, follow the basic plot Shakespeare has written for them, but become the main characters in this version. ... However, the last section of that quote "Two nonentities surrounded by intrigue" shows that Stoppard is refering to the intrigue Ros and Guil are given in the play "Hamlet", by saying this he means that in order for "Ros and Guil are dead" to be interpreted better, one would need to have an understanding of Shakespear's "Hamlet", and therefore stating that "R & G are dead" can exist as a play in its own right, but is mor...

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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet the main character is The Prince of Denmark who is fittingly named Hamlet, the young prince is an extraordinary complex man. ... This vicious chain of events goes onto shape the young princes last days. ... Shown in his soliloquy later in the play "Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable" Act one, scene 2, line 132 The betrayal felt by Hamlet of his own mother is immense and is even carried on to his own love interest Ophelia. ... " Frailty, thy name women" Act one, scene 2, line 146 And later in the play this moves on to his own love interes...

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However, his pleasure at his own reasoning does not last long, as he remembers how many times in the past they have spun coins together, never getting such results before. ... Scene Three: Directions from the King Summary There is a subtle lighting change, and Ophelia runs into the room, followed by Hamlet. ... He hopes that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who were friends with Hamlet as children, might be able to find out what is going on, because Hamlet has been acting very strangely. The King can't imagine what it could be, except for Hamlet's father's rec...

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He can't remember his own name, wonders idly about his toenails, and would probably be lost without his companion, Guildenstern. ... Hamlet - A Friend of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Prince of Denmark. ... While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. ... Hamlet, too, can be considered a rival, even though he does not have "evil" motives. ... (They were taking a letter to the English King, telling him to execute Hamlet, ...

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