... "d" (III,I,90-91). Hamlet greets her with remarks of her beauty, and refers to her as a creature more heavenly than himself who might be easily forgiven of sins. "Be all my sins remember"d" is Hamlet's way of asking for forgiveness for not talking to her in a while. When she asks him how he is, he says, "I humbly thank you: well, well ... Ophelia!" (V.I.237). This exasperation shows that he is shocked with her death and also sad to hear of it. At the funeral the Queen says, "I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife" (V.I.239). This shows that Hamlet's mother had seen the two toge...

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... . However, the next act belies Hamlet's sanity and reason. In act two, Hamlet appears again, although it now becomes apparent he has lost the conviction he demonstrated earlier-to complete his destiny as prescribed by the ghost of his father. During this act, Hamlet spends most of his ... by his fathers spirit-role of the vengeful son-Hamlet exhibits insane behaviors. This is illustrated by his statements to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "I know not-lost my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises..." (1071, line 282). Hamlet then admits he is merely feigning insanity with, "I am but mad no...

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... . However, the next act belies Hamlet's sanity and reason. In act two, Hamlet appears again, although it now becomes apparent he has lost the conviction he demonstrated earlier-to complete his destiny as prescribed by the ghost of his father. During this act, Hamlet spends most of his ... by his fathers spirit-role of the vengeful son-Hamlet exhibits insane behaviors. This is illustrated by his statements to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "I know not-lost my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises..." (1071, line 282). Hamlet then admits he is merely feigning insanity with, "I am but mad no...

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... them in a very close-knit co-dependant affair. "You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife, And, would it not so, you are my mother." (Act3, Scene4) This jealousy and hatred Hamlet feels is close to pushing him over the edge, so when the Ghost commands revenge Hamlet has ... excused for this murder , it being done so passionately, however the two that follow it are so treacherous and cold it seems Hamlet has lost his former compassion and truly begun to act willingly in the brutal circumstances that surrounds him. These two murders are of those who would be ... portrays Hamlet as...

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... 's good intentions, the seeds have been sown. Hamlet feels he has suffered yet another loss. When Ophelia says about the play "'tis brief my lord-, Hamlet replies "as woman's love- (IIIii.134-135). Polonius also loses - by the end of the play he will be dead, as will both his daughter and son ... . Ophelia believes that Hamlet " hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion- (Iiii.110-111). Despite this she obeys Polonious's instructions and rejects Hamlet. She goes even further and agrees to be involved in the ... we see Ophelia her father is dead and she is in the midst of a deep d...

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... cannot believe that his mother could so quickly fall in love with Claudius when she seemed so in love with Hamlet Senior as well. When he finds out from his father's ghost that Claudius murdered him, he exclaims, "O my prophetic soul! / My uncle?" (1. 5. 41). This means that he already had a feeling that this was true, and makes Hamlet feel justified in having all the other ... return. Hamlet then talks crazy to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's spies, who are pretending to just be concerned about Hamlet's well-being. He suspects that they are not his true friends, asking, " Were...

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... that his father has been slain. His purpose in the story is to avenge his father's death by taking back land from Denmark that his father lost (along with his life) in battle. Cluadius is able to do away with the trouble Fortinbras brings on, by letting him march into Poland untouched ... life. Hamlet is a prime example. His father is deeply involved with foreign affairs, while places like Norway are trying to take back land that they rightly lost. He simply does not have time for his son. Hamlet probably did not know his father very well. A lot of his life seemed to be spent ... will n...

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... his family members. He begins his speech with angry curses,O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold my heart, . . . He ends with more curses directed at the queen, his mother, and the king, his uncle. O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, ... Hamlet switches immediately from deep pondering to his feigned persona precisely when Ophelia enters. The phrase,Soft you now. .? is the transition from his true self into his madness as it is an exclamation of interruption. In the interaction between Ophelia and Hamlet, he denies ever giving Op...

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... of the play, Bernardo: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on't? Horatio: Before my own God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of my own eyes. (1,1 54-58) Bernardo tends towards a more rational approach, not allowing the folly of the ... eyes to get to him, however Horatio cannot deny what he has just seen. The reader has to call into question whether to suspend disbelief and accept this fantastic event of supernaturalism, or to remain skeptical about the true ... feelings. Hamlet appears to be shaped by his different emotions at different ...

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... . Both races became involved in reform movements to get rid of prostitution, alcohol and sinners, and eventually abolish slavery. As a result, in my opinion Stow in this novel made it clear that race had the most similarities between black and white followed by gender and class respectively. Stow ... characters show a lot of compassion for the slaves. Stow describes St. Clare as caring and sentimental person towards slaves, for example, "I have the same love that I have know for all kinds of human things-(Pg 257) Similar to young master George, Stow, depicts this character with similar pa...

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... his character flaw of procrastination to eventually destroy him. Another characteristic that acts against Hamlet is his excessive depression. Hamlet experiences rejection from his true love, anger from the murder of his father, betrayal from family and friends, and fear for what lies ahead. These feelings of pain and ... were given directly to him and always tried to think of better and less harmless ways of getting revenge. "That would be scann"d; / A villain kills my father, and for that / I, his sole son, do this same villain send / To heaven." (III, iii, __) Hamlet decides against k...

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... I"ll catch the conscience of the king". The play works but does not make Hamlet take action just yet. When hamlet is most bound to act, he gets puzzled and lost. This is most likely the reason why Hamlet does not take advantage of the opportunity to kill Claudius when he is at his prayers. Hamlet can not have his revenge ... Ophelia. It is only after Ophelia's death that Hamlet expresses his true love for her. Hamlet declares his love for Ophelia as she is lying in her grave. "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum". Sadly Hamle...

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... show courage, but instead, for the most part, are being told what to do. Cordelia demonstrates courage when she speaks the truth to her father, statingI love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less? (King Lear. Act 1. Sc 1. Ln. 94-95), but this merely results in her banishment and eventual hanging. Ophelia ... , on the other hand, lacks a single scene in which she shows courage. She is merely a puppet to her father and her brother, vowingI shall obey, My lord? (Hamlet. Act 1. Sc 3. ln.136). This lack of conviction results in her death as well. Both women have committed no crim...

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... killing Hamlet and he will stop at nothing until he completes his mission. This just proves that he has no sense of self-control and he has lost his sanity. Hamlet also appeared to act crazy after discovering that his uncle, King Claudius, notoriously killed his father and then married his mother. Hamlet is ... hit with so many emotions that he eventually goes mad and speaks inappropriately to almost anyone he comes in contact with. This is true when Hamlet says to Ophelia: "Go to, I'll no more on it, it hath made your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on it, I hath ... already. He is rud...

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... into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her ... from Hamlet, it is because he is putting on an act. [Act I, scene V, lines 166-180]. Hamlet's madness in no way reflects Ophelia's true madness, his actions contrast them. Hamlet's madness is only apparent when he is in the presence of certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius, Clau...

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... Hamlet, Ophelia is an innocent, nave little girl that put too much trust in the men in her life. She is a very young teenager who lost her mother, possibly at birth. She has a father Polonius and a brother Laertes who have gone to great measures to shelter her from the harsh realities ... his father's murderer. Hamlet, while observing his mother in action comes to the conclusion that deceitfulness is a woman's true nature. So he decided to test Ophelia's loyalty. Ophelia, who truly does love Hamlet, but at the same time loves and wants to obey her father and brother, is having an emotio...

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... that Hamlet was taking the mourning of his father's death to extremes: "To give these mourning duties to your father. But you must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow." (I, ii, 88-92) The King is telling Hamlet that death ... "...She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." (I, ii, 156-159) He is telling us that his mother has married right away and did not ...

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... - (2.2.541-2). He uses his apparent madness as a delaying tactic to buy time in which to discover whether the Ghost's tale of murder is true and to decide how to handle the situation. At the same time, he wants to appear unthreatening and harmless so that people will divulge information to ... then a weasel and finally a whale, and in a very sane aside, he then comments that "They fool me to the top of my bent- (3.2.337-8). Although he appears to have lost touch with reality, he keeps reminding us that he is not at all "far gone, far gone- (2.2.186) as Polonius claims, but ... sense. Aft...

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... Hamlet to assure the truth in the ghost's saying. Claudius tried using a fatherly approach in order to gain his trust but Hamlet knew what his true intentions were. Laertes was a person who through his good features and polite words could fool anyone. He fooled Hamlet into havig a fencmig match with him ... the smiles and politeness was only a cover for the scheming and evil revengeful person behind them, "but till that time I do receive your offered love like love, and will not wrong it". Hamlet himself appears to be mad when in reality he is not insane. Through this we see that almost ...

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... young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. His thoughts are consumed by suicide but he throws that idea out because he has love revenge and friendship to live for. These things are keeping him alive even thought all that he is going through is causing him so much pain and ... to his fathers death, his mothers remarriage to his uncle, and the rest of his life. He is pretending to be insane because Ophelia will not love him anymore. His friends are betraying him and working against him and all this forces him to have thoughts of suicide. He says his soliloquy after .....

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... aside begin to rise up out of him and he rushes to her grave. He challenges Laertes by saying that his love for her was so strong that "forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum" (V.i.1536). He goes on to say that he would do anything for her and asks Laertes "woo't weep, woo't fight ... , Hamlet doesn't realize the value of what he had until he could no longer have it. There are many times throughout the play when Hamlet shows that he might have lost all of his feelings towards Ophelia. He takes his mock insanity to the highest degree on all his en...

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... Shakespeare's "Hamlet" this is very apparent through the embodiment of this exact scenario in Hamlet, Laertes, and Prince Fortinbras. All three men have lost their fathers to cold undaunting homicide and all three have been compelled to avenge their father's deaths. Yet the difference lies in the course of ... the murder, and the revenge will follow: "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge" (I.v.29-31). Yet the ghost adds one specification, he tells Hamlet not to cause harm to his mother, telling him to "leave ......

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... Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved ... he must destroy all the current feelings Ophelia has for him and he does so very well, perhaps too well. Either his love for Ophelia was never as strong as he said, which I doubt, or he has really gone insane by assuming every situation is going ... to happen and he sacrifices her love for revenge...

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... , Laertes would rather dare damnation than leave his father's honor and his own besmirched. Though the sight of his sister's madness brings him to a moment of true madness, he is still primarily enraged by his father's death "Obscure funeral - / No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, / No noble rite ... concern for outward honor he further dishonors himself by the false statement that he will act honorably with Hamlet. Saying that "I do receive your offered love like love, / And will not wrong it," (Laertes V ii, 247-248) he goes and chooses the lethally sharp weapon that the ki...

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... take over. Hamlet was hurting beyond belief and he remained strong enough to conduct himself and not act out against the new sleeping arrangements. If my father died and his brother, his own blood showed a great deal of disrespect and pulled something like that, I would probably make sure he ... was just as deep in the ground as my dad. Hamlet's character didn't. He stayed strong and showed a strong mind. Hamlet tried to show his real emotions as little as possible. He did ... directly tell her how he felt about her forced upon decision, he reacted by calling her a whore and questioni...

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