... thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up the sum-what wilt thou do for her?" (lines 271-273) Hamlet says this after diving into Ophelia's grave with Laertes her brother and grappling, which is very wrong as Laertes, being her brother also loved her dearly. Hamlets mother, Queen Gertrude tells us that the young Prince's behavior ... we been there" (Line 13) He later remarks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that "Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain" (line 34) Claudius also says in Act 5 Scene 1 while by the grave of Ophelia " O" he is mad, Laertes" (line 274)...

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... Marcellus asks the others "has this thing appear"d again tonight?" and Bernardo replies that he has seen nothing. Just as Bernardo starts to describe his visions the apparition appears. Bernardo notes that the ghost is "In the same figure, like the king that's dead" and then questions himself "Looks it not like the king". Horatio then questions the apparition "What are ... which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death" Marcellus attempts to stop the ghost by striking it with his pike, but the spirit vanishes. "It was about to speak," notes Bernardo, "when the cock crew." Horatio adds t...

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... for being so physically close to his mother. However, Branagh interprets Hamlet as being, "much more committed to saving a soul than carrying out an execution," (Lynn and Jeff Wood, York notes 1998). This is shown by the calm, controlled and caring way Branagh [as Hamlet] says, "Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past," and later whispers, "I must be cruel to be ... believes, "By the end of the scene, a new intimacy is established between mother and son which carries them into the final stages of the tragedy," (Lynn and Jeff Wood, York notes 1998). The loving way in which, Mother...

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