... numbers cannot try the cause, Which is no tomb enough and continent Hamlet's highest point of suffering (emotional) occurs when his mother and Ophelia die: Hamlet: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum . Queen: No, no the drink! O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned. Hamlet: O villainy! Ho! When ... event. Hamlet was more depressed when Ophelia, his love died, because Ophelia was his true love and he would not gave up his relationship with if he had forty thousand brothers. However, his physical suffering occur...

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... , with no one but Claudius knowing that the act was committed by him. Not only is he the King of Denmark, but he is also married to Queen Gertrude, his brothers former wife. These hideous and awful crimes have not been punished, and no one knows that Claudius has done this. When Claudius confronts anyone, he must become someone totally different ... Ophelia. His actions towards her are atrocious, his attacks basically unwarranted. After she kills herself, Hamlet finds her grave site and says, from his true self, "I loved Ophelia, Forty thousand brothers/ could not with their quantity of ...

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... his love for Ophelia and his sorrow for her death, Hamlet rushes from his concealment and jumps into the grave after Laertes. Hamlet insults Laertes when he states, Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum (V, i, 234-236). He is so cynical that he doubts that Laertes is sincere, even though there is no ... a plot which resulted in the death of three members of the Danish royalty, he murdered his brother, the former King of Denmark, and entered into an incestuous relationship with his brothers wife. While constructing Wilson Knight's argument, ...

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... future if she chose to disbelieve her brother and believe Hamlet. By his behaviour it is shown that he does not impose his will on her which most of the brothers of those times could do if they wanted to, but as they shared a close relationship with each other, Laertes didn't want her to be forced to leave Hamlet and be ... a sweet and an innocent girl; Polonius's relationship with her was of such sort that she had to obey him any how because girls of the medieval times relied on their brothers or father to make decisions for them. However, if anyone else may have had ordered Ophelia to...

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... ). The known works by Sir Francis Bacon does not match that of Shakespeare. Not only do they have completely different writing styles, but also most of Bacon's known works were essays "to help people get ahead in life" (404). Also, because of the large amount of literature that is already known to belong to Bacon, it is almost impossible to think ... ...

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... displays behavior that reinforces his role. She was his true love interest, and perhaps loved her more than her brother. This is illustrated by Hamlet's statement "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum" (1139, line 251). Hamlet concedes that he should have loved her, but did not. Had Hamlet truly loved ... ...

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... 33-36]. Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that ... ...

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... comes the burial of Ophelia, which is when Laertes and Hamlet fight as Hamlet feels that Laertes is not truly sorry for Ophelia's death as Hamlet says, "even Forty thousand brothers " can't make up the love he had for Ophelia. It is after this that Laertes joins Claudius, and schemes to kill Hamlet by poisoning the foil they plan to use ... ...

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