... cup," (V.ii. 287). Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned wine. Laertes wounds Hamlet. Hamlet and Laertes somehow exchange weapons. Hamlet wounded Laertes with the poison sword. Gertrude dies from the poisoned wine. She calls out to Hamlet to warn him of the king treachery before she dies. Hamlet kills Claudius. Laertes and Hamlet forgive each other. Hamlet names his friend Horatio the successor to the throne as he is ... act. Revenge causes one to act blindly through anger. Hamlet's revenge of his father's death caused him to become more evil than his stepfather. He sets out to kill...

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... wants to talk to Hamlet about her disappointment. Hamlet, who is very angry because of Claudius" involvement in his father's death and also her marriage with the King, is very rude with her. During their discussing, Gertrude calls for help, Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, who is hidden behind the wall covering in order to listening their conversation, answers, and Hamlet kills Polonius thinking that he is ... the King. Polonius dies by paying the price of his own trickery. There is a passage that illustrate ... Polonius" death very well, which means that he has met his death because he...

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... Is now most still, most secret and most grave, / Who was in life a foolish prating knave." (III, iv, __) Hamlet speaks of Polonius in this quote after he commits the act of murder. Hamlet, thinking that it was the King who was listening in on his conversation with his mother, becomes edgy and acts out of ... character, stabbing Polonius, the King's assistant and Ophelia's father, through the curtain. Hamlet also acts out of character when he meets with his precious Ophelia whom he loves very much, but cannot express his ... of better and less harmless ways of getting revenge. "That woul...

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... been thouroughly engulfed in the deluge of blood and bad feelings he let loose by killing Polonius. Before the fighting starts we get an interesting contradiction from Hamlet. On one hand he feels almost giddy about sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths. On the other hand ... Earth was to help a friend in need should net him some credit. Hamlet's main flaw is his reckless vengeance which resulted in his killing of Polonius and really opened the gates that held back the blood. Hamlet isn't corrupt at all at least not in the same sense you would ... and the ghost goaded h...

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... the Prince of Denmark. The intelligent and kind Ophelia, however, betrays her father, and later collapses into insanity and kills herself. When Ophelia's father ask about Hamlet she tells him the Hamlet has made many offers of his affection, she describes his love as honorable. She shows obvious love for her brother ... Just comes to show you how disloyal she is in her promise towards her father. Ophelia is very deceitful towards Hamlet because Polonius and King Claudius sets up something for Ophelia to return all of Hamlet's gifts to see if he is really crazy or if he is just acting. " ...

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... causes his grieving. Even his mother advises him, "Do not forever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust." After Hamlet learns about his father's murder, the consequence is, he himself asks the question, "To be or not to be." His misery started with ... consequence. The death of Ophelia was brought on by misery from the death of another. When Hamlet is speaking to the queen in her bedchambers, he accidentally kills Polonius in cold blood. "I am slain." Polonius whispers as his last words before being shuffled off this mortal coil. Ophelia's emotions had already ......

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... degree of reality by Claudius' reaction. At times its almost as if Hamlet's appearance of madness has become reality. When King begins to suspect that Hamlet knows about the murder, Hamlet is cautious and nervous about what he should do. When at last he decides to punish Claudius, but he accidentally kills Polonius, and instead of being upset, he just does not care. Claudius fears ... for his safety, so he decided to send Hamlet to England to die. The duel, in Act V, Scene II appears to be an innocent competition between two opponents; but in ... to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned. I...

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... a man of "thoaction". The pure thought Hamlet is exemplified in the scenes when Hamlet is contemplating suicide and also when Claudius is praying, and Hamlet has the opportunity to kill him; but Hamlet thinks his way out of situations-- blaming religion, bad timing, etc., rather than himself. Then Hamlet mutates into pure action Hamlet. He rashly and recklessly murders Polonius. This was stupid because not only did ... exchanges swords with Laertes after which he wounds Laertes. Both have been poisoned. As Laertes is dying he tells Hamlet about the poison and blames Claudius. Hamlet is ...

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... prove to us that he is truly not a man who cares about what he has done. This flaw can be seen very clearly when Hamlet murders Polonius and expresses no remorse, when he kills him he says very eerily that the man had deserved it, "intruding fool" (III.iv.30). He wasn't putting on a show ... true character. Robed in such a way that it completely wraps his body expressing how his "show of madness" tightly wraps his ideology. In the picture Hamlet is on a trail, which leads to many places; on a trail one must make the decision for which way to go because there are many different ... path...

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... early goings of the play, the second scene to be exact, we discover that Gertrude is very greedy. Like Gertrude Claudius is also greedy, he kills Hamlet senior just so he can become king. The love of Hamlet, Ophelia is weak-minded, she cannot come to grips with her fathers death. Ophelias' brother, Laertes is greatly impressionable. The father of the two siblings ... , Polonius is always in everyone else's business and is undoubtedly nosey. The entitled character Hamlet avoids the inevitable of killing Claudius in many instances. Gertrude is greedy in that she marries her dead husbands' ...

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... investigation he vows revenge upon his Uncle/step-father, Hamlet begins to mentally falter and eventually, is in such a wild rage that he accidentally kills Polonious believing him to be his father. Hilarity ensues. Ophelia, Hamlet's love interest, commits suicide/dies after going slightly mad from the impact of her father's death, then Laertes, Polonius' son, arrives on the scene enraged and ready to ... kill Hamlet for what he's done, and just when you thought things couldn ... been plotting to kill him. A great tragedy in the works. A duel takes place between Hamlet and Laertes wher...

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... as to imply that they are completely random, the likelihood is slim. There is enough evidence in Hamlet, regarding fate, that the audience should have no trouble in identifying and examining it. The protagonist of the play, Hamlet, suffers the fate of death by poison. He enters a fencing match with Laertes, and Laertes poisons ... the tip of his sword. When Hamlet is cut by it, his end begins. On that very note, the cup that Claudius offers Hamlet, to drink from, is also poisoned. When Hamlet is successful in the match, his mother accidentally drinks from the cup. The mother's ... that...

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