... by how he handles certain situations throughout the play. He reveals himself to be an over-analytical man who frequently procrastinates. Hamlet demonstrates his over-analytical tendencies when Claudius was praying: "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying./ And not I"ll do it. And so he goes to heaven./ And so ... visit and he is perceptive enough to see through their outside motives into their real intentions: "Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you love/ me, hold not off."(II,ii,308-310). After realizing this, he forces them to reveal that they have been sent by the King to find ......

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... doing that he buys himself more time to look into his father's death. Hamlet only pretends to be mad so that his plans will not be found out by Claudius, Polonius or any other person that may be suspicious of his actions. The ghost informs Hamlet of his father's murder and demands that Hamlet takes vengeance. Without ... chatters. He may be neurotic and he may question his own sanity, but neither of these factors make him crazy When it comes to Ophelia, Hamlet does truly love her. His feelings for her are genuine. After having her treat him badly and the fact that his mother is married t...

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... scene. Eventually, the characters of Shakespeare's play become victims of an unwholesome situation- their own creation. Hamlet is much closer to his mother than is to Claudius. Therefore Hamlet feels more emotion when dealing with her, "Come, come and sit you down. You shall not budge. You go not till I set ... drives out Hamlet's deep suppressed feelings of anger, "But to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty- -(III:iv). This intense emotional reaction between Hamlet and his mother results in the death of Polonius, wh...

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... then took the kingship and wed Hamlet's mother, then the ghost of his deceased father appeared to him with instructions for revenge and, finally, the love of his life was no longer permitted to see the prince by order of the lady's father. This would seem to many to be reason enough ... also had motive for putting on the contrivance as it would disguise his investigation of his father's strange death and his plans for revenge against his uncle Claudius if he found him to be guilty. After Hamlet witnessed the appearance of his dead father's ghost and heard what the spirit had to say, ......

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