... scann'd. (3,3,73-5) Hamlet demonstrates his over-analytical nature in line seventy-five of the speech when he says "That would be scann'd:" meaning that he should examine his situation more closely. Instead of simply killing Claudius while he had the chance he over-analyses and eventually decides to postpone Claudius' murder, missing the best chance he will obtain in the play. Hamlet is ... also a procrastinator and this is demonstrated many times in the play: "Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge". (3,3,79) He knows that he must kill Claudius but he postpones it. What Hamlet has l...

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... character shine through at some point in the play. Even when most of Elsinore believes that Hamlet has gone insane some characters show, in their speech, a contradiction between the commonly held opinion and the truth as they see it. Twice Polonius remarked about the appearance of sanity in the fazade ... when Polonius declared, "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't- (46) and "How pregnant sometimes his replies are- (47). The admirable qualities of Claudius, whom appears most corrupt in the play, appearing in the play show him to be a good leader. Laertaes, who plots to kill...

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... the play. The first reason why Hamlet will never lose importance is because of the incestuous relationship between Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle, King Claudius. Even in Elizabethan times, Hamlet would have been disturbed by his mother's new love. In act I, scene ii, Hamlet's disgust with his mother's ... incestuous relationship and pain over his father's death is no more clear then in the lines of his speech, "But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was, to this / Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to ... months after the death of her hu...

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