You cannot disobey a president, or king. ... He saw that obedience to a king was an absolute. ... If such a system was to function properly it was imperative that all subordinates obey their superiors. ... Then the King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed- (Matthew 25:31-34) Having established that Christ or God can be viewed as a King, we can fit this into our statement of absolute obedience to that King. ... However, in all of these cases it is clear that there is an underlying duty and it must be carried out. ...

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Now that Hamlet has this information is he now obligated to kill King Claudius? ... It's not like she can just divorce the King after so recently marrying him. ... to the King, and when the King replies that he thinks all the best of Polonius than Polonius says that he would do anything to prove that he is honorable towards the king. Polonius is a "suck-up" toward the King and feels that if he has close relations with the King then he will do well in life. ... Hamlet kills King Claudius. ...

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The ghost of King Hamlet comes and tells Hamlet that he has to acquire retribution and kill King Claudius. ... Even though Hamlet does all these things that may make him seem like a villain he does it all to put on an act and to try and open the eyes of his mother Queen Gertrude so that she can see that King Claudius killed King Hamlet. ... King Claudius has his intellect all crammed with dire ideas. ... Also because of all the planning to kill Hamlet, King Claudius is the source for the death of Queen Gertrude, Laertes and himself. King Claudius is clearly showing his hatred towards Hamlet as...

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"I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum." ... Hamlet is splenetic and rash Hamlet: Son of the late King Hamlet of Denmark and nephew to the present King. ... Distrustful of King Claudius, Hamlet is equally weary of the King's spies, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz who attempt to know his true intentions. ... To this end, Hamlet distrusts and rejects all those around him whom he believes are spying on him for King Claudius. ... Witnesses King Hamlet's Ghost in Act I. ...

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In act 1, scene 5 we discover, because of the ghost, that King Claudius murdered late King Hamlet. ... In act 4, scene 7 he illustrates his need to avenge his father's death when he states And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all age For her perfection. ... The King, the King's to blame" (297-298); this illustrates Hamlet's impulsiveness. ... Fortinbras feels that the thrown was "stolen" from him by late King Hamlet. ... Hamlet choosing not to kill Ki...

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"The Kings to Blame" In all myths, tragedies and plays there is always a tragic hero. ... In "Hamlet", the antagonist is Claudius, Hamlets uncle and King Hamlet's brother. Claudius kills poisons the king and marries the kings wife to become king. ... In "Hamlet", King Claudius starts the trend by poisoning King Hamlet so that he can become king. ... And Claudius is also obsessed with power because he poisoned King Hamlet and then married his brother's widowed wife just to be king. ...

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The murder of King Claudius would seem to everyone as just an act of violence or madness committed by Hamlet. ... He does this by setting up a play and watching the king's reaction. ... The ghost of King Hamlet is only doing more harm to Hamlet. Hamlet's father just died, he's upset with his mom for marrying so quickly and on top of all that his father just rose from the grave and told him to kill his uncle. ... A better way to do it would be to expose the truth about the murder of King Hamlet to everyone. ...

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First of all, in the play Hamlet by Shakespeare Hamlet and King Hamlet's relationship can be used as an example of honor and loyalty. ... Take him for all in all,/ I shall not look upon his like again" (1,2. 195-196). ... These lines just reinstate all that Hamlet believes. ... King Hamlet and King Fortinbras had a fight over land and King Hamlet won, but young Fortinbras is still set out to win back land for his father. ... All of these father/son duos make great examples of honor and loyalty....

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Claudius' motives to kill the old King Hamlet was to become King himself, to be more important and powerful than he was before and also to marry Gertrude whom he loved. ... Hamlet refers to King Claudius as a "bloody, bawdy villain" (2.2.580). However, despite all of this, Hamlet decides that instead of taking revenge right away, he would find out if the Ghost was telling the truth. ... He exclaims, "How all occasions do inform against me/ And spur my dull revenge!... He needed to make sure that the King was not sent to heaven when Hamlet did fulfill his destiny, so he had ...

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All but two of the main characters, Horatio and Fortinbras die. It all starts when Claudius uses ear poison to kill the King Hamlet. ... All this twisted death and murder shows how rotten the state of Denmark is in. ... At first Claudius kills King Hamlet, to become king and marry his wife (and Prince Hamlet's mother). This is the first treacherous act in the play, and is the catalyst for all the other rotten acts. ...

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A doubt that led Hamlet to wait to seek revenge against his uncle was when he doesn't know if Claudius really killed King Hamlet. ... All of this is because of King Claudius" fear of Hamlet killing him. After Hamlet finds out that Claudius admits he is guilty of killing king Hamlet he decides to kill him. ...

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Since Hamlet is such a complex character, he might actually fool some readers into believing that he is genuinely mad, but all of the evidence from the play points to the contrary. In the exposition of the play, Hamlet's father, King Hamlet, dies. ... While Hamlet is acting mad, he plans on plotting the murder of Claudius, who Hamlet just found out murdered his father by pouring poison into King Hamlet's ear. ... Another brilliant thing that Hamlet does is to set up the play for the King to see whether or not Claudius murdered King Hamlet. ... Someone who is mad would not ...

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Hamlet's "Madness" Hamlet was the prince of Denmark, son of the assassinated King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, and nephew to Claudius. ... The ghost of the previous king gave Hamlet the solution that he needed. The ghost also beseeched Hamlet to " Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest," which implies that Hamlet was required to not only restore his honor, but to restore the honor of all of Denmark as well! The added burden upon his shoulders caused him to clear from his mind all but what was necessary to solve his dilemma. ... He slightly alter...

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Four of the main characters that hid behind this mask are Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king Cluadius. ... Polonius, the king's royal assistant, has a preoccupation with appearance. ... 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. ... Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Claudius all appear to be good and honest. As Hamlet finds out, all are full of lies and have hidden agendas within them. ...

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Hamlet's soliloquy shows how disgusted Hamlet is with Gertrude, Claudius and the world which is shown in the line "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world"(I,II,133-134). ... In the soliloquy hamlet refers to his world as useless or disgraceful His speech is full of words that suggest rot and corruption which is shown with words like "gross" (I,II, 138) and he also refers to his world as an "unweeded garden" all this shows how unstable hamlets state of mind is since he can't seem to think of anything good about the world he lives in which is cau...

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Hamlet opens at the castle in Denamrk where King Hamlet has died recently. After the death of King Hamlet, his brother bacame king and married King Hamlet's widowed wife, Gertrude. ... Polonius then forbade Opheliato see Pronce Hamlet again; hoever, he still needed information to bring the king. ... "My lord do as you please,but, if you hold it fit, after the play let his Queen mother all alone entreat him to show his grief" (3.1.195-197). Polonius told the king, "My lord he is going to his mother's closet. ...

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One major subject that is addressed is Hamlet's infatuation with death and the physical decomposition of the body, manifested primarily in his discovery of Yorick's skull, a jester of the late King Hamlet. Upon finding the skull, Hamlet is horrified and realizes that all men will eventually end up the same way, even the great ones, and he envisions the physical features of the face such as lips and skin that have decomposed. ... Hamlet comes to terms with the fact that no matter whom the person is, commoner or king, everyone ends up the same way, a heap of dust. ...

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The appearance of the ghost of late King Hamlet brought prince Hamlet out of his state of mourning and into a quest for revenge. ... On King Claudius's wishes, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern were invited to Elsinore to discover what ailed Hamlet. ... "The play's the thing wherein I"ll catch the conscience of the King." ... Believing it was the King, Hamlet rose to the opportunity and did slay the eavesdropper behind the curtain. ... He was put into a difficult situation, which was verified to be all Claudius's fault. ...

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Tone is an important aspect of all Shakespeare's works. ... The king also expresses a vengeful tone against his brother in lines 81-84,"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not..." Clearly the king wishes that Hamlet would expose the crimes of his uncle and avenge his father's death. In contrast to the ghost's opinion of the crime, King Claudius feels mixed remourse and self serving ambition. ... Claudius wants to be forgiven, but he realizes that to be forgiven he must give up all the things he commited the crime for in the first place. ...

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Your worm is our only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, – two dishes, but to one table: that's the end" (4.3.20-25). ... This act of mockery is intentional to anger Claudius into committing a sin, as he has murdered King Hamlet, and the prince is now sorrowful. ... Hamlet says, "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots" (4.3.22) as an attempt to irritate Claudius. ... When Hamlet speaks to Claudius on the theme of what occurs ...

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Earlier in the play he declared his love for Ophelia with "all the holy vows of heaven." ... He is delivering his damning judgement on all woman "frailty thy name is woman" He attacks Ophelia but it is really his mother he attacking, he is angry at her for marrying Claudius so soon and thinks she might have something to do with King Hamlet's murder. ... He calls himself "Hamlet the Dane" he wants to be king and be like his father. ... The final scene is where all four characters die through poison and treachery. ... The play has come full circle from King Hamlet asking Hamlet to "remember...

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Claudius murders his own brother; Hamlet's father Old King Hamlet, by drizzling poison into his ear. The King's death is announced to have been by snakebite, and Claudius then marries Queen Gertrude (Hamlet's mother), and subsequently becomes the new King of Denmark. ... Claudius is meant to be Hamlet's uncle and stepfather, yet here he is putting all his energy into murdering him. ... One thing is clear however; Hamlet lived in a world of lies, betrayal, and murder, while all he searches for is retribution. ... After all, Hamlet himself best describes the amount of honesty...

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You might say that for all he's done Hamlet is a corrupt bastard, plain and simple. ... Hamlet isn't corrupt at all at least not in the same sense you would call someone like Claudius or Stalin (two very different cases). ... Claudius kills King Hamlet, so Hamlet wants to kill him. ... Even though he would have to murder the King, Hamlet chooses that road. The road where another king dies and Hamlet is the only one satisfied. ...

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Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is the son of King Hamlet who is murdered before the play begins. ... This ghost then tells Hamlet that his new stepfather, Claudius killed King Hamlet. The rest of the play is Prince Hamlet seeking revenge upon King Claudius for killing his father. ... After he has unintentionally killed Polonius, he begins to feel remorseful of all of the hate within his thoughts. ... Hamlet is a very unique character and is most likely the most complex character in all Shakespearian work....

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Claudius, is King of Denmark, who is Hamlet's uncle. ... The last major character in the play is the Ghost of King Hamlet ("Sir" 438-439). ... While they all battle against each other, Hamlet kills Claudius and by the end of the battle, Gertrude, Ophelia, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet are dead (Deville). ...

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