... it anymore. Another event that is said to prove the fact that Hamlet is genuinely mad is when Hamlet stabs and kills Polonius. The real reason why Hamlet kills Polonius is that Hamlet thinks that it is Claudius hiding behind the curtains and Hamlet feels Claudius would only be getting what he deserves for murdering King Hamlet. In Hamlet's mind, stabbing the person behind the curtains is the perfectly rational thing ... to do in that situation. Later, when Hamlet discovers that he has accidentally killed Polonius, he is ... ...

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... was skeptical at first but then the ghost suddenly appears and then disappears without saying a word. Heratio acknowledged that the ghost figure did resemble the deceased King Hamlet. ACT 1 SCENE 2 Characters: King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimana, Cornelius, Heratio, Bernardo, Marcellus, Lord, Attendant Setting: A public state room in the castle. Summary: The next morning, after Heratio and the ... Claudius was in the act of praying, a time where he is asking for forgiveness. Hamlet decides to kill Claudius only when he is sinning. ACT 3 SCENE 4 Characters: Polonius, Hamlet,...

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... 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. Little does he know that his relations with the King actually gets him killed. In the last scene (Act 5, Scene 2) Hamlet's need for revenge finally is fulfilled. Hamlet kills King Claudius. But at that ... point, Hamlet is now avenging his mothers death along with his fathers. Line 304 "O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked: Treachery! Seek it out!" shows ... that this is the last straw for Hamlet. His mothers death is too much and...

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... a fit of rage, stabs his uncle with the poisoned sword. Hamlet has now finally revenged his father's death, though much time has passed. He finally dies from the poisoned sword. Laertes" father, Polonius, is murdered by Hamlet when Polonius is discovered listening to Hamlet and his mother's conversation. Hamlet unknowingly kills Polonius from where he was spying. Actually Hamlet thinks it's Claudious he has killed. When news of his ... fathers" death reaches Polonius's son Laertes, he comes back to seek revenge for his fathers death. At first ... ...

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... , and many things have fallen apart because of the poisoning act on the part of Claudius. At this time Hamlet starts acting mad, likely as a result of the tumultuous events occurring around him. While Hamlet is mad, he kills his love interest Ophelia's father, Polonius. The death of her father causes Ophelia to commit suicide (or so it seems). At the end of it ... all, Hamlet duels a rival of his, and ends up dying along with most all of the other characters in the story ... it would send him to heaven. After, he goes to Gertrude's room and confronts her. As he starts lashing out, he de...

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... in Queen Gertrude's closet at the request of Claudius to listen in on her discussion with Hamlet. When Polonius thinks that Hamlet intends to murder the Queen, he cries out for help. Hamlet, thinking it's King Claudius, thrusts his sword into the place where the voice comes from. Hamlet doesn't even take the time to see who is in the closet; his state of mind ... it. Meanwhile, the Queen inadvertently drinks from the poisoned cup. So now Queen Gertrude and Laertes die from poison intended for Hamlet. When Hamlet learns he is poisoned, he kills the King, both with the poisoned sword and ...

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... the understanding of the past. Laertes develops a madness that is controlled by revenge. When Laertes is talking to Claudius, and it is revealed that Polonius died at Hamlet's hand, there is so much revenge building up inside Laertes against Hamlet that he want to "cut his throat" (Madden 144). Laertes" behavior is caused by the sudden death of his father and his sister ... 's madness. This madness grows even stronger when Claudius promises "no wind of blame" (Madden 142) when Laertes kills Hamlet; perhaps though, this is what Claudius sought all along for himself. Claudius is now being ...

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... he sees the Prince of Denmark, which just died. Horatio tells Hamlet what happened and then Hamlet confesses his upset feelings of his mother remarrying after his father's death. Meanwhile, Laertes and Polonius tell Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet, because Hamlet is deeply in love with her. When Hamlet tries to kill Claudius, he kills Polonius and because of that outcome Ophelia commits suicide over the death ... of her father. Claudius then requests that Hamlet should be killed, so Claudius then poisons Hamlet's drink. The Queen drank it by accident and ... she died. While they all ba...

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... been thouroughly engulfed in the deluge of blood and bad feelings he let loose by killing Polonius. Before the fighting starts we get an interesting contradiction from Hamlet. On one hand he feels almost giddy about sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths. On the other hand ... Earth was to help a friend in need should net him some credit. Hamlet's main flaw is his reckless vengeance which resulted in his killing of Polonius and really opened the gates that held back the blood. Hamlet isn't corrupt at all at least not in the same sense you would ... and the ghost goaded h...

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... up to Claudius, he finds Claudius kneeling in prayer, and Hamlet pulls out his sword and gets ready to kill him. However, Hamlet realizes that if he kills Claudius while in prayer he will go to heaven and not hell. So Hamlet postpones the killing of Claudius. Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behind the ... tapestry, Hamlet believes the king id hiding there. He draws his sword ... and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime he is ... ...

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... that if a person was killed while praying, they will go to heaven. While cursing Gertrude for marrying Claudius, Hamlet hears a noise behind the curtain and without a second thought, he runs through the curtain, mistakenly stabbing and killing Polonius. Up until this point he has not shown this level of rashness and would have been more careful before acting in such a ... way that could produce serious consequences, in this case murder. Polonius' death is seen by many as part of the reason Ophelia commits suicide. Since Hamlet kills Polonius (among doing many other things to toil with O...

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... him is a hard choice. "Time is out of joint o, caused spite that even I was how to set it right"(act1) however, his decision brings bad results because other people die. Hamlet kills Polonius who is hided by an arras. His thought the guy behind the arras was Claudius. Ophelia has a mental problem and finally she commit suicide ... . Polonius' son, Laertes comes back from England and joins Claudius. They attempt revenge upon Hamlet. Hamlet has had another enemy. Claudius puts poison ¼Ö »Õ wine and tries to give it to Hamlet. But Queen Gertrude snatches the wine and she drinks; it kill...

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... his father's death and rashly makes his way back to Denmark being followed by an angry mob. He makes no hesitation in taking action to get his revenge. Once King Hamlet kills Fortinbras" father, Fortinbras begins getting his army ready to attack Denmark. He is prepared to take action, but does not go about things rashly as Laertes did. He is able ... at the appropriate times. He also realizes that he will go to hell for what he is going to do, and therefore has no reason to rush his plans. When Polonius dies, Laertes sees it as a personal offense to himself. Instead of being concerned o...

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... emotions that further provide fuel to his plans of taking revenge. All of Shakespeare's plays comment on certain inevitable factions of the society. In Hamlet, Shakespeare shows that when greed takes over, man does not know what he is doing. He loses all his common senses and also the ... ability to think correctly in order to be able to differentiate the right from the wrong. In Hamlet, it is Claudius who succumbs to his greed and eventually kills his own brother and then marries his sister-in-law, all in order to achieve and maintain the crown. ... of the play, but instead enhance th...

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... of the main characters father's are viciously murdered. The first father to be murdered is King Hamlet, who's son Prince Hamlet is supposed to avenge the death of his father. Also in the play Laertes father, Polonius, was stabbed to death, like Hamlet, it is Laertes job to see that the man who murdered his father shall have the same done to him. Although ... drank by Gertrude and she dies. Then when Hamlet sees his mom die Laertes stabs him with a poison sword which Hamlet eventually stabs Laertes with also. As Laertes is dieing, he tells Hamlet that he is right and that Claudius did mu...

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... one of someone who has been loosed from hell to speak of horrors. Hamlet's uncharted madness leads Hamlet to tell Ophelia, his dear love, he has never loved her. Hamlet's statement, "Get thee to a nunnery" was very cruel and cold. Hamlets madness doesn't stop with words. Unknowingly he lashes out and kills Polonius hoping that it was King Claudius. This is an irrational action. The ... shedding of innocent blood with no remorse prove to be enough evidence for insanity. As Polonius lay motionless on the floor , his ... murderer proves to the queen that he is insane. The ghostly figure a...

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... At the end of his soliloquy he once again emphasises his hatred of Claudius he calls him a "remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" Although Hamlet has not acted yet he still feels great hatred towards Claudius and wants to avenge his fathers death. His next soliloquy is also very important, he ... might have something to do with King Hamlet's murder. It is because of his course of action that he is nasty to his "fair Ophelia", this also partly leads to Ophelia's death. The first time Hamlet act without thinking ends in tragedy, he mistakenly kills Polonius who was hiding ...

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... seems incapable of deliberate action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion, when he has no time to reflect, as in the scene where he kills Polonius, and again, where he alters the letters which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are taking with them to England, purporting his death. At other times, when he is most bound to act ... more affecting or beautiful than the Queen's apostrophe to Ophelia on throwing the flowers into the grave. ""Sweets to the sweet, farewell. I hop'd thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife: I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet m...

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... his father's death, " So uncle, there you are. Now to my word| It is "adieu, adieu! Remember me.| I have sworn't" (111-113). Hamlet's decision to avenge his father's death illustrates his impulsiveness. Later on in Act 3 scene 1 he is unsure of what the ghost represents "May be devil, and ... his indecisiveness and foreshadows his contemplative attitude. Laertes is the son of Polonius and a soldier. He spends most of his time in France. Laertes" persona illustrates Hamlet's need to complete the task at hand (revenge) as well as Hamlet's impulsiveness. Like Hamlet, Laertes is a good warr...

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... was able to distract those around him and concentrate on finding out whether or not Claudius murdered his father. He convinced his mother (Gertrude) and Polonius that he was mad toward the fair Ophelia, mad for her love. While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern don't know what to make of his mental state ... has spoken with the players about adapting a few of his own lines to the play of, The Murder of Gonzago. So Hamlet can determine whether Claudius is guilty of King Hamlet's death, by creating "The Mousetrap" for Claudius to see what reaction he will have once the play is performed. During ...

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... common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity." (1.2 line 70) This is an example of how Gertrude told Hamlet to forget about his father's death and that everybody dies and to goes to eternity. Throughout the play Gertrude never really changes significantly ... explains how she denies what she has done in the past. She begins to change slightly after Hamlet's murder of Polonius (her father), thinking it is Claudius. She realizes that Hamlet knows what is going on and that he will try to kill Claudius. In the killing of the ... cup that Claudius has prepared for Ham...

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... prove to us that he is truly not a man who cares about what he has done. This flaw can be seen very clearly when Hamlet murders Polonius and expresses no remorse, when he kills him he says very eerily that the man had deserved it, "intruding fool" (III.iv.30). He wasn't putting on a show ... true character. Robed in such a way that it completely wraps his body expressing how his "show of madness" tightly wraps his ideology. In the picture Hamlet is on a trail, which leads to many places; on a trail one must make the decision for which way to go because there are many different ... path...

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... . However in Oedipus the King, the incest is more generally known. The whole community realizes that Oedipus killed his father and slept with his mother. In Hamlet, the incest is only regarded as disgusting by Hamlet. The rest of the community accepts their marriage as normal. Murder is the motivation behind the character's actions in both plays. In Oedipus the King, the ... supposed to find and surrender the former King Lauis's murderer to the gods to stop the plague. In Hamlet, the plot begins with the appearance of the ghost of former King Hamlet who reveals his brother murdered him. ...

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... he is. This can be seen throughout the entire play. For example, the scene in which Hamlet killed Polonius through the curtain. Hamlet was so enraged there was no stopping him, however, Hamlet thought the person behind the curtain was the King. When Hamlet relizes that he had killed Polonius it is as if, he feels a sense of enjoyment. The next character is Cluadius. Cluadius is ... of his father in her presence, a ghost she cannot see. Ophelia is another character. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, she is in love with Hamlet but rejects him after her father orders he to do so. She la...

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... of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No. Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent." Here Hamlet believes that if he kills Claudius while he is at prayer he will go to heaven. Hamlet decides to kill Claudius when he is committing a sin so that he instead will go to hell. Ironically it is discovered that Claudius ... be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none." A sound that came from behind the curtain causes Hamlet to stab through it murdering the unknown victim. He thinks that it had been Claudius spying, but it turns out to be Polonius. Ha...

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