... king tolled Hamlet about his murderer. Once Hamlet discovers that Claudius is the one responsible for the death of his father, thoughts of revenge and feelings of hate overwhelm his mind. From then on the only care that he has is to avenge his father's death. This then triggers a chain reaction of lies ... to see if his uncle is guilty of the murder of his father. When Claudius reacts to the play and Hamlet knows the truth, his hate grows even stronger toward his uncle. In a blind fit of rage Hamlet lets his emotions get the better of him and he accidentally kills Polonius ... Claudius h...

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... Hamlet's father. When Hamlet loses his father, he turns to two people to replace that love: his mother, Gertrude, and Ophelia; both of whom betray his love. Gertrude betrays that love by marrying her brother-in-law, Claudius, and Ophelia betrays his love by refusing him on her father's advice. This love betrayed leads to anger as Hamlet scorns both of them. Gertrude too, experiences ... to Claudius to replace it (just like Hamlet turned to her and Ophelia to replace his). Similarly, her second love betrays her, but by the time she discovers this, she is already dying (after Claudius acc...

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... house" (III.i.143-44). Hamlet's response implies that he is both disturbed by the presence of Polonius and knows that Polonius is plotting something. Another instance which demonstrates Hamlet's love for Ophelia through actions rather than words is when he insists she go to a nunnery. At first, it seems as though Hamlet is mocking her and trying to get rid ... imply that Ophelia is pregnant with Hamlet's child. Aware that they are being watched and plotting against them, Hamlet does everything to convince the reader that he is not in love with Ophelia which only demonstrates the immense...

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... Ophelia to come to full bloom. Hamlet was extremely distraught over the marriage of Gertrude to Claudius. Hamlet who I believe once had a great love and respect for his mother, is now horrified and betrayed by his mother's choice to marry so soon after his father's death. Not only is he upset over the hasty ... that his mother has defiled the memory of his father by marrying his father's murderer. The actions of his mother have made Hamlet distrust all women. If he did once love Ophelia he is now afraid to have any faith in her or any other woman because of his mother's actions. I beli...

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... bring the matter straight to Hamlet rather than Claudius. 'Hamlet,' he had said. 'And only Hamlet should be told of this strange apparition.' Loyalty is synonymous to love. So, Hamlet's, or even Laertes' love toward Ophelia could be used as a proper example. Laertes blames Hamlet for both the death of his sister as well as the death of his father. Both accusations ... give his own life to escape the pain from his friend's death, Horatio shows the strongest form of loyalty possible: a form of phileo love so strong, he is prepared to die for Hamlet. "No one has greater love than this: to ...

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Singing songs about her lost loved one and her dead father, a young girl has gone mad. I n the beginning of the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Ophelia has devoted her love to 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 and father as well because they are looking out for her. She never shows any anger or hatred t...

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... the one where we see Claudius praying for forgiveness for the murder he has committed, guilt is seen in who would be the easy-to-hate "villain" in other stories. He is depicted as a human being with the capacity to be sorry for what he has done. The good and bad qualities of ... of Hamlet is first questioned in Act Three when Ophelia comes in after Hamlet's soliloquy in Scene One. Here, Hamlet tells Ophelia he doesn't love her. Hamlet . . . I did love you once. Ophelia Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. Hamlet You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our ......

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... : one who follows his instincts and feelings. Hamlet appears to be shaped by his different emotions at different times in the play, whether it is grief, hate, or love. Hamlet appears lost in a blanket of emotions that overrule his ability to think clearly. In all of his pent up anger at himself, his mother, ... he always seems to stay true to himself and his passions. In a letter to Ophelia, Hamlet exclaims Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (2,2 126-127 Here Hamlet proves that, though he doubts what he has learned in books and in the University, he will not doubt what he...

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... seems will veer him from his path of righteousness, not understanding, not reason, not friendship or family, or the mightiest emotion of them all, love. Hamlet is faced with the knowledge that his own mother stole away his beloved father for her own sinful pleasures of the flesh, this thought to ... How does one forgive a mother for killing the father? How does one love an uncle knowing your father's body rots and decays beneath the dirt, because the brother placed him there? Hamlet's mind must have traveled into the depth's of hate and anguish far beyond a normal man's comprehension. Li...

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... a sense of closeness between Hamlet and his mother. This also shows that Hamlet is needed in his mother's life. Hamlet does love his mother, but early in the play he falls in love with Ophelia. A critic states, "His cruelly gross mistreatment of Ophelia is a deflection of his disgust at his mother's being lecherous ... . Hamlet struggles to find truth among the people he once trusted. He appears disturbed because of his lustful feelings for his mother Gertrude, while his hate for his uncle Claudius seems to grow deeper. The Ghost appears when Hamlet is caught in an act that looks like he ...

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... disregard the fact that humans should be treated with respect. But long before the Holocaust, there was a young man named Hamlet whose story was more personal and tragic than other stories. Hamlet's dads own brother murdered him, out of envy and desire for the crown. Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, then gets the crown and marries Hamlet's mother. When Hamlet's dad comes back ... that would give him hope that his uncle could be a better person. When the opportunities of advancement came to Hamlet, he should have forgiven Claudius instead of acting out of hate and selfish desires. Hamlet needed...

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... lays in the focus and concentration placed on certain characters. In Updike's prequel, Gertrude takes position as the main character. The beginning of the novel starts with her father finding a love interests for her, and the rest of the book basically tracks her social and marital endeavors. In the prequel, Gertrude carries a very strong minded attitude that, at times, conflicts with ... changed some what, building up a dangerous curiousity that has caused him to intrude in other's business. Updike suggests many things in his novel, one of which being the effects of love and hate. When...

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... allusion to identify the severity of Hamlet's disgust towards his mother's marriage to Claudius. The strong imagery Shakespeare uses in this passage shows the near hate of Hamlet towards his mother. Hamlet is still lamenting his father's death when he is struck with the news of his mother's remarriage. This is ... himself and Hercules. His father had not been dead for even two months, not long enough to feel the wind of heaven. Hamlet illustrates the love he has for his deceased father, and then wonders the question "Must I remember?" (Line 15). Hamlet figures that if he did not remember...

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... an excellent means of creating the impression of insanity. Also, however, such rejection, by eliminating love from his consciousness, may harden his personality to the point where he is better able to hate Claudius and to exact revenge against him. Why He Treats Gertrude the Way He Does Hamlet ... Two is to somehow induce her to stop loving Claudius. This latter development would eliminate the possibility that Hamlet might feel estrangement from motherly love in attempting to kill or from succeeding in killing Claudius. After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man ...

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... 31). Hamlet swears to his father that he will revenge for him. "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge" (Act 1, Sc 5, Ln 35-7). Hamlet is confused with his father's death not knowing what to believe. Even after the ghost ... mother, he loses faith in Ophelia because she is the other woman he loves. Hamlet loved Ophelia as much as he could, but this love wasn't much. Hamlet was already overwhelmed by his own problems that he could not give much of himself to someone else even if it the ... loved (Ophelia). Both Hamle...

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... of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. He captured the human essence: what it is to love, to hate, to feel. As such, Shakespeare's works are first taught at a high school level, and usually the tragedies such as Hamlet and Macbeth are introduced. However, Shakespeare's tragedies contain ... is at the teenage level when individuals start to experience relationships with the opposite sex. Through comedies such as Twelfth Night, students can see the consequences of impulse decisions regarding love....

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... , all for nothing too because Hamlet wasn't the real enemy, he should have been trying to murder Claudius, oh and speaking of Claudius, greed and love lead to his destruction, he wanted power, wealth and love therefore the greed took over him and lead to his death. Ophelia was self-destructed due to the death of her father, which was caused by ... killed her father, which drove her crazy and caused her to drown herself in the pond. Hamlet is a very controversial character throughout the play, because nobody knows what makes him hate women. We meet Ophelia and see the way he treats her is...

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... such as "He is dead and gone" develop into lyrical daggers that penetrate his already damned sole (IV.5.30). Hamlet's life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it takes a turn for the worse when the unimaginable befalls here tortured sole and she commits suicide in the river. Hamlet feels fully responsible for the death of Ophelia ... the growing insanity that Hamlet is burdened with (V.i.242). His insanity that he once feigned became a reality and it had taken over his entire world, he became so consumed with hate for Claudius that it drove him to madness and the...

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... , but the weapon Claudius really uses is Laertes" desire for revenge against Hamlet. Hamlet's killing of Laertes" father and the resulting tragic death of his sister have caused Laertes to hate Hamlet. Laertes tells Claudius that he wants to destroy Hamlet, "I will be ruled, The rather if you could devise it so That I might be the organ." (IV.vii.67-69 ... into the picture full of hatred for Hamlet. The death of Laertes at the end would not have happened if Hamlet had not killed Polonius and given Laertes a reason to hate him. Hamlet's killing of Polonius also resulted in the trip to Eng...

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... plot against Hamlet by her father and brother who are supposed to protect her but instead they use her and therefore open a way for Hamlets hate and disappointment to direct at her. As he thinks that she has betrayed him just like he thought his mother had done, although she did so ... his mothers marriage to his uncle, Hamlet is scarred for life in his relationship towards women. When Hamlet comes to Ophelia at her bedroom, acting all "love- mad, he gets his confirmation (in his opinion) that all women are treacherous and can not be trusted. But Ophelia is also important to give ... t...

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... and continent Hamlet's highest point of suffering (emotional) occurs when his mother and Ophelia die: Hamlet: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum . Queen: No, no the drink! O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned. Hamlet: O villainy! Ho! When Hamlet ... with if he had forty thousand brothers. However, his physical suffering occurs when he dies O, I die, Horatio Hamlet procassination led to many tragedies where his love and his mother died and eventually caused his own death. Furthermore his mother's death caus...

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... could find in the world before him only a dull blank with nothing left remarkable in it; whoever has known "the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes;" he who has felt his mind sink within him, and ... His conduct does not contradict what he says when he sees her funeral, "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum" - [Act v., sc. 1.] Nothing can be more affecting or beautiful than the Queen's apostrophe to Ophelia on throwing flowers into ... theme, masked by that o...

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... his father's murder. Dunstan, the protagonist in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business, also feels unhappy, but helps the situation instead of seeking revenge. Both stories follow the resolution of their misery, each with different conclusions. Even though Hamlet and Dunstan are both unhappy, there are many differences in how they ... to take revenge on his uncle Claudius "Haste me to know it, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge"(1.5.33-35). Where Hamlet jumps to the decision of revenge, killing his uncle, Dunstan decides to be hopeful ... ...

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... madness. Critics argue that Hamlet has the first reason to be hurt by Ophelia because she follows her father's admonitions regarding Hamlet's true intentions for their beginning love. In Act 3, scene 1, line 91 Hamlet begins with his malicious sarcasm toward her. "I humbly thank you, well, well, well," he says to her ... inconstancy can only mean deceitfulness or madness" (Lidz 158). She is undeniably caught in a trap that has been layed, in part, but her lover whom she does love and idealize. Her shock is genuine when Hamlet demands "get thee to a nunnery" (line 120). The connotations o...

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... convention, thus producing our time delay. Firstly, Hamlet is obliged to avenge his father's murder: "if thou didst ever thy dear father love revenge his foul and most unnatural murder-. Using guilt to lure Hamlet into killing Claudius, the Ghost describes Old Hamlet's murder in detail, therefore influencing Hamlet ... to hate Claudius passionately as the true horror of the murder is revealed: "And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose ... tame-. He seems to be almost disgusted by her, and she lives: "in the rank sweat of an enseaméd bed, Stewed in corruption...

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