... the supporting characters that he affects. Although Hamlet has a profound impact on every character in the play, the effects on Ophelia, Polonius, and Claudius seem to be the most significant. The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia rapidly changes with the modifications of Hamlet's state of mind. Initially, ... next interaction occurs during the play where Hamlet lets on to his knowledge of his father's murder. In Act II, Scene 1, Polonius and Claudius observe while Hamlet and Ophelia have their first conversation in the play. The final interaction between Hamlet and Polonius takes ...

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... instability. They fear his "madness" is caused by his inability to express his love for Ophelia. In this scene, as Hamlet directly denies any love for Ophelia, which is contrary to the love he strongly conveys in previous scenes, readers realize that Hamlet is determined to keep ... in 2.2, and develop into a philosophical, unyielding character in 3.1. In Act 1, Scene 2, Hamlet is reacting to his mothers" hasty marriage to his uncle, Claudius. Hamlet is devastated that she could remarry after being widowed only two months. He makes references regarding the possibility of them having an ad...

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... him and how he feels it is evil that is currently triumphing over goodness and justice. This also gives insight into his hatred of Claudius which spurs his disgust at his mother's remarriage. Hamlet describes the garden (Denmark) as overgrown with things "rank and gross in nature" which can ... too soon and is very shaken by its occurrence. Hamlet is thrown into confusion by the "wicked speed to post" with which his mother marries Claudius. He is confident that his perception of his parents as happily married is not wrong and doesn't understand his mother's recovery from her husband's d...

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... personality that leads to the death of many characters. Hamlet's main flaw is that he is indecisive, he has to think everything through before acting. To stop Claudius suspecting anything Hamlet feigns madness "antic disposition" however throughout the play we are left puzzled to whether Hamlet is acting or is really mad. In act 1 ... know not of" In act 3 scene i we see how Hamlet's pretence of madness has affected his state of mind. Earlier in the play he declared his love for Ophelia with "all the holy vows of heaven." However in this scene he is very nasty to her he tells "get thee to...

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... uncle. Hamlet is entirely disgusted by the brevity of his mother's mourning, and the fact that she had married her deceased husband's brother (Claudius). Hamlets true feelings are exposed in act one scene two through his soliloquy. In Hamlet's soliloquy Shakespeare uses imagery, diction, and allusion to ... identify the severity of Hamlet's disgust towards his mother's marriage to Claudius. The strong imagery Shakespeare uses in this passage shows the near hate of Hamlet towards his mother. Hamlet is still lamenting his father's ... and Hercules. His father had not been dead for even t...

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... reader that Hamlet is angry at his mother and more so that she only grieved for one month. Hamlet feels that his mother impulsively marries Claudius. He compares his mother to Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus who turned to stone while mourning over the loss of her children, and cried ... was too short. This soliloquy reveals to the reader, Hamlet's feelings about the marriage since he still has great love for her. In Shakespearean times, the marriage of a man like Claudius to his deceased brother's wife was considered incestuous. Hamlet feels that this marriage is not good, and nothing g...

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... 1, Scene 2 as Hamlet struggles to come to terms with the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother to his uncle Claudius. Hamlet is depressed and longs for death, he even considering suicide, "O that this too too solid flesh would melt" However the catholic ... inferior Claudius who he sees as "satyr" a lecherous creature, half man, half goat. Again Hamlet liken his father to a god like figure, "but no more like my father Than I to Hercules" This reinforces Hamlets feelings of dislike towards his uncle. Hamlet remembers his father's powerful love for his ... , such as "heaven...

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... way it's kind of like he has been left alone and no one care about him anymore. After learning that his uncle Claudius was the one who murdered his father, he is very ferrous. He seeks revenge at Claudius due to the return of his father as a ghost. His mother has remarried to the person Hamlet despises the most, which ... is his uncle Claudius. After his father only being gone for two months his mother has already remarried. Hamlet is disappointed by his mother's emotions to his father's death. He ... are the reasons why he chooses to use the option of suicide. I believe another key fa...

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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). It also reveals ... how saddened he is by his father's death whom he admired and looked up to and Hamlet's mothers marriage to Claudius just adds to Hamlet's grief over his father. Hamlet's soliloquy provides a contrast to the restricted way he must talk to Claudius and the court holding back his true feelings over the situation. The main function of the soliloquy is to let ... come u...

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... contain a combination of love, hate and possibly deception. Deception is the act of lying and being perceived as truthful. Throughout the story of Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, deception is an underlying theme that creates hatred and partial insanity in the main character, Hamlet. The basis for the story is the remarriage of Hamlet's mother to his uncle, Claudius, who has killed ... Hamlet's father possibly out of love for Gertrude or simply to claim the throne. Hamlet's suspicions towards his uncle do not begin to grow until the ghost of his father approaches him ... a point...

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... good Hamlet. The scene where he confronts Ophelia and tells her that he does not love her particularly moved me. I think that it showed one very good interpretation of Hamlet, that Hamlet really did love Ophelia but was really hiding it because he knew that King Claudius and Polonius were listening in on their conversation. You can tell from parts of this scene ... that Mel Gibson tells Ophelia that he once loved her in a very quiet voice, but then he thinks of his uncle and the advisor eaves dropping, and he speaks in a very loud voice that he never did love her and then ... ...

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... 's relationship with Ophelia was good in the start then got worse as the play went on. I believe that Hamlet had a part in the suicide, because of the way he would love her then turn against her. Even though he had many different things going on it drove her insane to not fully have to one she loved. 6) The ghost in the ... the ghost in the start because he did not feel like the only one so it made him believe. 8) In Act 3 I see that Hamlet is ready and wanting to kill Claudius but talks himself out of it. As Hamlet begins to talk he rationalizes why he shouldn't and should take this ...

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... and goodness, all the traits Hamlet identifies with his late father. Satyrs are half human, half goat beasts, monstrous in nature and linked with promiscuity, much like how Hamlet believes Claudius to be. Hamlet remembers how his father would treat his mother stating that he would not allow the wind to "visit her face to roughly"(144) and that she, in ... !"(148) Hamlet then continues his discourse of his mother's actions declaring that "a beast"(152) lacking reason would have mourned longer for his fallen father. He even challenges her displays of love and initial grief at the loss. He ...

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