... 's hurt, so would Hamlet, who as a blood relative to the other men thinks and feels similarly to them. For this reason, Hamlet feels inhibited from deliberately destroying the man his beloved mother loves. There is also the prospect that a suspicious Claudius could influence a naive Gertrude to hate Hamlet, or to approve of or to support palace intrigue against the potential assassin ... 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 his beloved mother love...

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... , as is expected by the audience. In contrast, Hamlet's intelligence prevents him from being overcome by his need for revenge, and he is unusually subdued and hesitant to fulfill his beloved fathers request, finding many obstacles that hinder his decision and delay any action until the very end of the play. Hamlet's first issue to ponder is regarding the nature of ... ...

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... Hamlet to become bloodthirsty for revenge. Even before Hamlet is directed to kill Claudius by his father's ghost, he has an excuse to be enraged and unsettled because of his beloved father's death itself and of the lack of concern or mourning on his mother's part, exhibited by her sudden remarriage to Claudius. Not only is Hamlet battling with mourning the ... ...

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... 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 his beloved mother loves. Gertrude would also not condemn Hamlet for killing or attempting to kill Claudius if she did not love Claudius. Thus, Hamlet would have the psychological freedom he would ... ...

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... as a madman by enhancing a feminine flight of fancy. Though his plan is ultimately futile, this inheritance of supposed female qualities is later marked on poor Ophelia. Hamlet's treatment of his beloved undermines her own love for him. Whatever uncertainty lay beneath the veneer of her otherwise beautiful frame hyperbolized ten-fold when her father's life callously disappears at the hands of ... ...

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