... Ophelia have their first conversation in the play. The final interaction between Hamlet and Polonius takes place in Gertrude's dressing room. Polonius looks on as Hamlet confronts Gertrude about his father and her relations with Claudius. Believing that Claudius is looking on, Hamlet stabs at the curtains where Polonius lies and kills him. In shock that he has not killed Claudius and Gertrude in horror ... that he has killed Polonius, Hamlet exits dragging out his body. Claudius, uncle to Hamlet and King of Denmark, ... is the person most greatly affected by Hamlet's actions. The murde...

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... it anymore. Another event that is said to prove the fact that Hamlet is genuinely mad is when Hamlet stabs and kills Polonius. The real reason why Hamlet kills Polonius is that Hamlet thinks that it is Claudius hiding behind the curtains and Hamlet feels Claudius would only be getting what he deserves for murdering King Hamlet. In Hamlet's mind, stabbing the person behind the curtains is the perfectly rational thing ... to do in that situation. Later, when Hamlet discovers that he has accidentally killed Polonius, he is ... ...

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... and plays, minor and major characters play equally important roles in the progression of the plot. Although the courtiers in Hamlet, such as Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Laertes, help Hamlet find his true self, evoke the madness and spying theme, and they ironically bring his destruction and ultimately show the ... out the spying motif. Another courtier, who was one of the purer characters, was Laertes. Laertes was the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia, who was dating Hamlet. Laertes receives permission from the King and his father to take leave for France. When he re...

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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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... thy fortune;/ Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.- [Act III. scene IV, lines 31-33] and then talks about lugging his guts into another room. After Hamlet kills Polonius he will not tell anyone where the body is. Instead he assumes his ironic matter which others take it as madness. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten ... stem from madness. And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/ Will be some danger; which for to prevent,/ I have in quick determination [Act III, scene I, lines 165-167]. Polonius admits that Hamlet's actions and words have a method to them; there appears to...

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... ' death. 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. Therefore it is overlooked. Laertes in his ... from dust and eventually will return. It is possible that Shakespeare was trying to indirectly warn us of Hamlets fate or of the fate of Polonius or Claudius. Hamlet is young, handsome, daring, and witty with an emotional soul and a violent temper. He exhibits a puzzling two-faced nature. He contradicts himself ...

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... he sees the Prince of Denmark, which just died. Horatio tells Hamlet what happened and then Hamlet confesses his upset feelings of his mother remarrying after his father's death. Meanwhile, Laertes and Polonius tell Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet, because Hamlet is deeply in love with her. When Hamlet tries to kill Claudius, he kills Polonius and because of that outcome Ophelia commits suicide over the death ... of her father. Claudius then requests that Hamlet should be killed, so Claudius then poisons Hamlet's drink. The Queen drank it by accident and ... she died. While they all ba...

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... prepares to kill Claudius, but Claudius appears to be repenting for his sins. Hamlet realizes that if he kills Claudius now then he will go to heaven. Hamlet decides to wait for a better time when he will be sure that Claudius goes to hell. Hamlet walks into his mother's private chamber to have a discussion. Polonius immediately hides behind a tapestry so that he can hear what ... Hamlet has to say. As soon as Hamlet enters the room, he begins to be extremely ... incestuous marriage and the foolish person that she has become. Gertrude begins to become scared for her life, and she decid...

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... so bad that he becomes obsessed with the idea until it ultimately kills him. Insanity has been defined in many different ways, but essentially, it's a state in the thoughts and emotions of a person restrict his or her reasoning proper judgment. Hamlet lets the fact that his uncle killed his father rule his actions ... that his father has given him. Not only because he finds out that his father was murdered, but also because it comes from deceased king Hamlet himself. Hamlet can be classified as partially insane because of his actions. He seems to be collected, however, when he thinks up ...

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... identify with Hamlet on. After the play he is summoned to speak with his mother while Polonius spies behind the curtain. Polonius makes a move and Hamlet draws his dagger and kills him. This is an act committed off impulse and it is not something Hamlet would have ... done if he were thinking logically. Hence, the feelings of passion, anger and confusion are customary to the situation Hamlet ... is faced with which makes the readers compassionate towards him. Aside from the themes and emotions of Hamlet ... within a month, let me not think on't: Frailty, thy woman!"(I.ii.143-145). Anot...

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... of the main characters father's are viciously murdered. The first father to be murdered is King Hamlet, who's son Prince Hamlet is supposed to avenge the death of his father. Also in the play Laertes father, Polonius, was stabbed to death, like Hamlet, it is Laertes job to see that the man who murdered his father shall have the same done to him. Although ... drank by Gertrude and she dies. Then when Hamlet sees his mom die Laertes stabs him with a poison sword which Hamlet eventually stabs Laertes with also. As Laertes is dieing, he tells Hamlet that he is right and that Claudius did mu...

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... artistic upheaval, tentative and feisty environment and political disarray. The story introduces us to three young men whose fathers had been brutally killed (Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras). The men had high positions 'in the social order and a fall/death of any one would influence the entire ... Hamlet's madness but are unsuccessful. In the interim, Hamlet goes to England. On the way he discovers the letter written by Claudius, sentencing him to death. He then replaces the letter, which now orders the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, totally reversing the situation while the...

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... After being visited by the ghost of his father, Hamlet discovers that his Uncle Claudius was behind the murder of his father. Hamlet's mission then becomes avenging his father's death. In the process of fulfilling his new mission Hamlet kills his girlfriend's father, Polonius, and drives himself and Ophelia further into madness. ... 1, Scene 3, Line 104. At this point in the show Ophelia is conversing with her father Polonius when her father calls her a "green girl." When asked what she thinks about her feelings towards Hamlet, Ophelia responds, "I do not know, my Lord, what I should th...

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... seems incapable of deliberate action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion, when he has no time to reflect, as in the scene where he kills Polonius, and again, where he alters the letters which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are taking with them to England, purporting his death. At other times, when he is most bound to act ... more affecting or beautiful than the Queen's apostrophe to Ophelia on throwing the flowers into the grave. ""Sweets to the sweet, farewell. I hop'd thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife: I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet m...

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... not hear this part of his prayer. Claudius, by the end of the play has caused more than half a dozen deaths, King Hamlet, Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes, Polonius, and himself just to name the main ones. It is because of Claudius" scheming that the end of the play is so plagued by ... a good leader. It was Claudius" obsession for control and power that ruined a great kingdom. The question left to be answered however is this, would Hamlet have made a good king? Hamlet possessed many qualities that would have made him a suitable king. First of all, his father was the king, so he was royalty an...

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... honeying and making love over the nasty sty- -(III:iv). This intense emotional reaction between Hamlet and his mother results in the death of Polonius, who is hiding in the room. We can make an assumption that Hamlet is not crazy and is thinking clearly throughout most of the play. Yet towards the end ... Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me-(III:iii). Finally, after the encounter with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Hamlet continues on his way to see his mother, at which time he says that, "Now he could drink hot blood-, showing his passion an...

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... was able to distract those around him and concentrate on finding out whether or not Claudius murdered his father. He convinced his mother (Gertrude) and Polonius that he was mad toward the fair Ophelia, mad for her love. While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern don't know what to make of his mental state ... has spoken with the players about adapting a few of his own lines to the play of, The Murder of Gonzago. So Hamlet can determine whether Claudius is guilty of King Hamlet's death, by creating "The Mousetrap" for Claudius to see what reaction he will have once the play is performed. During ...

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... is crazy, crazy for love. His plan shows the audience that he is the most intelligent character in the play because of his perfect use of indirection. Though Polonius uses it often, Hamlet uses it with full command. Hamlet acts crazy because it allows his to more leeway in investigating the accusations of the ghost. His investigation of the ghost's story shows that ... , but at second examination it can be seen that Hamlet is aware he can not kill the King now for many reasons. Firstly he is at prayer and murdering the king during this would allow him to go to Heaven, which is not the pr...

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... common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity." (1.2 line 70) This is an example of how Gertrude told Hamlet to forget about his father's death and that everybody dies and to goes to eternity. Throughout the play Gertrude never really changes significantly ... explains how she denies what she has done in the past. She begins to change slightly after Hamlet's murder of Polonius (her father), thinking it is Claudius. She realizes that Hamlet knows what is going on and that he will try to kill Claudius. In the killing of the ... cup that Claudius has prepared for Ham...

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... to the conclusion that Hamlet is "mad". The major male characters on the other hand, such as Polonius for example in Act II notices that there is "method in Hamlet's madness"; that his insanity seems to be a mask to hide something deeper. Hamlet's abnormal behavior since the ... death of his father and his mother's hasty marriage to his uncle seems to be somewhat understandable. The others see that he is naturally gloomy and withdrawn from these traumatic events. Yet Hamlet ... dead father, is in fact sane. But then on the other hand, in his treatment of Ophelia, his former lover, Hamlet...

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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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... . However in Oedipus the King, the incest is more generally known. The whole community realizes that Oedipus killed his father and slept with his mother. In Hamlet, the incest is only regarded as disgusting by Hamlet. The rest of the community accepts their marriage as normal. Murder is the motivation behind the character's actions in both plays. In Oedipus the King, the ... supposed to find and surrender the former King Lauis's murderer to the gods to stop the plague. In Hamlet, the plot begins with the appearance of the ghost of former King Hamlet who reveals his brother murdered him. ...

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... a play that would help him figure out if his uncle Claudius was truly responsible for his father's death. Although Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Polonius were all present when Hamlet presented his ideas to the head player, they were not aware that Hamlet's changes to the play would have a devastating impact towards their grateful King (II, ii.421-529). They never thought a so-called madman ... death, yet there is another side to where he should not make all of the other comments and action toward the other characters in the play such as Ophelia or Polonius. It is all a matter of how th...

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... , that persuade me to think other wise. Certainly, Hamlet has plenty of reasons to be insane at this point. His day has been hectic--he finally determined Claudius had killed his father, the chance to kill Claudius confronted him, he comes very close to convincing Gertrude that Claudius killed his father, he accidentally kills Polonius, and finally the ghost of his father visits ... him. These situations are enough to bring Hamlet to insanity, but he remains sharp and credible. Hamlet is able to make smart remarks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, comparing then to sponges, "When he (Clau...

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... images and thoughts") as being the "intergral" of his own work. Meaning that Stoppard's play ("R & G are dead") is in fact derived from Shakespear's play "Hamlet". In which case in this interview Stoppard confirms that "R & G are dead" can hold up as a play in it own right, however in order to understand ... and Ophelia: his mother by marrying Claudius and Ophelia by spying on him at the behest of her father Polonius. Now he discovers that Ros and Guil are spys too. After Hamlet kills Polonius accidentally in his mother's bedroom, the King decides to ship him off to England for his prote...

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