In this play, which character would make a better king, Claudius or Hamlet, when all of their qualities and characteristics are examined? ... First of all, his father was the king, so he was royalty and obviously had some knowledge of what a king needed to do. ... Throughout the play all Hamlet wants to do is go back to the university. ... Hamlet has one of the most well known soliloquies of all time. ... Also there was war all around the kingdom and a king should be the type of person that could lead his country. ...

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Many others were killed: his mother, the court advisor Polonius, his son Leartes, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Hamlet's Love Ophelia, and Hamlet himself; all because of Hamlet's procrastination. ... As well they each show similarities to the noble late King Hamlet, or the deceitful King Claudius. ... All the shows of loyalty to the king are to keep the king happy, and thinking that the duo is worth their keep in the castle. ... However, in truth Hamlet did not answer any of their questions, and was the one who was asking close to all the questions. ... Guildenstern and Rosencrantz sha...

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Claudius also replaces King Hamlet as King of Denmark. ... With all of the things Hamlet was already upset about he now had an even bigger problem to face, avenging his father's death. ... "Is it the king?" ... Hamlet is also responsible for the next four deaths in the play, which all occur in the same scene. ... Hamlet killing Polonius is the start of all of the other character's deaths. ...

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Hamlet Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark, son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet. ... The plan was to catch Claudius expressing guilt for murdering King Hamlet. ... First, the King would die of poison by his brother. ... King Claudius tells them about the situation, Something have you heard. ... (II, II) What does the King mean by transformation? ...

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The most revengeful characters in the play are Hamlet, the Ghost of King Hamlet, King Claudius and Laertes. ... King Claudius is the devious character. ... Hamlet, speaking of his worst enemy, the king, states "He hath killed my king, and whored my mother,Popped in between th" election and my hopes,"(i.: v.: 975). The devious King Claudius plans to kill Hamlet anyway that he can. ... This brings the two to devise a way to finish Hamlet once and for all. ...

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Old King Hamlet was a warrior king who risked his life and fought for his country on the battleground. ... Our last king, whose image even but now appear?... Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands which he stood seiz?... "A king of shreds and patches save me, and hover o?... Old King Hamlet was "doom?...

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King Claudius, Polonius and Hamlet all share the common quality; appearing something what they are not in reality, which eventually in the end leads to their demise. King Claudius, the villain of the tragedy, caused his own demise first of all by murdering his own brother, former king Hamlet, and secondly marrying prince Hamlets mother and his sister in law, Gertrude. ... His ambition was to get his hands on the crown and become king of Denmark. ... All in all, Claudius, Polonius and Hamlet caused their own demise. They all did something that was not right or truthful through which they all ...

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Horatio tells a story about how king hamlet was a very powerful king and was always there for a purpose. This proves when King Hamlet comes back as a ghost with armor on he is there for a purpose and want to make sure he revenges all the evil effected him. ... The king Claudius is completely bewildered to why Hamlet is acting the way he is. ... So he just places all the blame on his father's death. Which isn't right at all. ...

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The characters of whom I speak of are Fortinbras, son of the late King Fortinbras, prince of Norway; Laertes, son of the late Polonius (Lord Chamberlain to the King) and brother to the late Ophelia; and Hamlet, son of the late King Hamlet, prince of Denmark. As one can see, they all have something in common; they are all sons to murdered fathers. ... Firstly, there is the son of the late King of Norway, Fortinbras. ... Hamlet, thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom...

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Since the beloved King Hamlet has died and the Queen remarried, the morale of the people is low, and cold. ... The universal illness besets all men regardless of their nationality; in particular, this idea of one not knowing about the hidden actions of another is reminiscent of the other plots in the play. The newly crowned villain, Claudius, later remarks "Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all" (IV.3.8), directly before the scene of Hamlet revealing the location of Polonius' dead body. Here, the evil king considers his plan to send the mentally i...

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After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca, set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. ... "A was a goodly king." ... Fortinbras vows revenge on King Hamlet. ... The first time we see evidence of revenge is when the ghost of King Hamlet appears. ...

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He wants the murder of the King to be perfect. ... Hamlet spends too much time planning and not enough time doing, thus making the King's murder more complicated and belated. ... Under this light, Hamlet cannot kill Claudius until he can prove that he poisoned the late king. ... Hamlet lets opportunities to murder Claudius pass by, waiting for a time when all will realize he is right in the act so that Claudius will die in shame. ... All and all, Hamlet can be summed up by one of the plays most infamous lines: "To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether "tis nobler in the mind t...

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Claudius is only admitting to killing King Hamlet, not asking for forgiveness. ... (I, ii, 1-7) Using Claudius' speech as a guide to the truth, the audience believes that King Hamlet died naturally, unaware that the new king murdered him. ... The king has no interest in Hamlet's safety, and Hamlet is aware of this. ... All doubts that Hamlet once had concerning the reality of Claudius' actions dissolve as he acknowledges the evil that Claudius has committed. ... All involved, except Hamlet, believe that Claudius is acting for the welfare of his stepson and no interventi...

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King Hamlet, his father, died recently. ... Claudius, the brother of Old King Hamlet is now the King and husband of Gertrude. ... All is not well. ... The ghost of the previous king gave Hamlet the solution that he needed. ... Ophelia now goes completely mad and has lost all control over her mind. ...

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He desired the crown of king Denmark, and killed his brother King Hamlet to acquire it. ... In the beginning he does present the impression of being a good king. ... I really like this version of Hamlet fil because many things make this film special, the rich sets, the costumes, the interracial superb actors, the humor but most of all the full text version of Hamlet. ... It is all too much for her and she breaks. ... The court room in the film is a very grand room where all the players are presented. ...

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Behind the mask, is hidden the secret of King Hamlet's death, and Hamlet's promise to the ghost to avenge his father's death. ... The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." ... Because he began to believe in his own mind that he was mad, he was forced to witness the downfall of himself, and of all those he loved. ... All of these emotions of Hamlet's affect his decisions regarding actions that must be taken. ... All in all, the character of Hamlet is a complex character with many conflicting aspects and characteristics which are reve...

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The tragic hero's character illustrates violent outbursts, all the while attaining the love of his audience. ... With the disapproval of his uncle comes the disobedience of Hamlet towards his uncle, "I shall in all my best obey you, madam (I ii 124)." ... When Hamlet states, "Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar (IV iii 34-35)." he is essentially telling Claudius that when he dies no one will care that he was a King, he will rot just like anyone else. ... The Prince's disbelief that his mother might have loved King Hamlet distresses him. ...

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King Hamlet's words to Hamlet lead him down a path of insanity. ... " I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died." ... (I,ii 146) Hamlet portrays all women as being frail evil because of his mother's doings. ... Knowing now that Claudius did commit murder he loses all his morals and decides to take revenge on him. Although the murder of the king and accidental murder of Polonius can be justified, there is no way to justify the cold blooded murder of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who were said to be school friends of Hamlets, but ...

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First of all, Hamlet tried to avenge on King Claudius because his uncle, Clauduis, poisoned his father and claimed the throne. ... Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum- (5,1,285-287). ... After all, Claudius died and Hamlet had finally completed his revenge. ... His point on revenge was simple: killing this enemy at all costs. ... And, Horatio, the best friend of Hamlet, informed the last will from Hamlet that he agreed Fortinbras to be the King of Denmark. ...

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Also, does she have any part in the poisoning of King Hamlet, her late Husband? ... Right off the bat, Gertrude does not seem to know anything of it and is always trying to explain to her son that it will be ok without the king "Do not forever with thy vailed lids/seek for thy noble father in the dust/thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die/Passing through nature's eternity/" (act I, sc II, l. 72). ... She does not sound in any way as if she had plotted out the killing of King Hamlet. ... (Act 6, sc 2, l. 313) She is on Hamlet's side all along. ... She had no cl...

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"A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. " - Alfred Tennyson. ... Claudius wants them to find the truth whether Hamlet is plotting to avenge his father and kill the king. ... If a Prince is ambitious there's only one step up for him, and that's to become King. ... "This above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man./ Farewell: My blessing season this in thee! ... He engineers the play within a play "mousetrap " to capture the conscience of the king. ...

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Trumpets blare in that tired old style that is heard in all period movies. ... This is one commonality between all the movies except for the Zeffirelli. ... The character of Fortinbras and all things related have been removed. ... The film opens with a funeral for old king Hamlet. ... One camera perspective consistently used here captures the ambience of flourish and celebration by framing the view of the king with all the subjects and the great hall. ...

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How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world (I, ii, 135-140). ... Hamlet goes on to compare his father to Claudius and comment on the relationship between King Hamlet and Gertrude. ... This leads Hamlet to make a generalization about all women. ... "The play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"(II, ii, 611-12). ... He says that people go through life with all of its problems because of "dread of something after death"(III, I, 86). ...

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All tragic heroes possess one characteristic, or flaw, that causes suffering in their personal lives. ... Hamlet expresses this fear,: "Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wanned, Tears in his eyes...And all for nothing! ... Can say nothing, not for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. ... Hamlet suggests that by calling Claudius his father, Gertrude is offending his true father, King Hamlet. ... His dilemma is not o...

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The king being peculiarly the image of God, regicide is a kind of deicide. ... Thus King Hamlet, "by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch'd" (1.5.74-75). ... In this sort of play, Girard notes, "all eloquence must be on the side of revenge" and all criticism of the ethic "remains a half-formed thought, an almost incoherent feeling that must fail in the end to gain full control of the hero's behavior." ... Even the most cursory review of the dramatic movement and literary structure of the play, however, demolishes all such interpretations. First, there...

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