... she could forsake her loving husband when he was such a great man. "So excellent a king, that was to this/ Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother frailty, thy name is woman!" (1,2.143-144 & 150). These lines just reinstate all that Hamlet believes. His father was very kind, especially to his mother; ... do and what not to do while he is away. He ends this speech with "This above all: to thine own self be true" (1,3. 84). Polonius really does love his son even though it is very questionable sometimes whether he is just worried about himself. Polonius's speech is about Laertes keeping ...

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... killing Hamlet and he will stop at nothing until he completes his mission. This just proves that he has no sense of self-control and he has lost his sanity. Hamlet also appeared to act crazy after discovering that his uncle, King Claudius, notoriously killed his father and then married his mother. Hamlet is ... hit with so many emotions that he eventually goes mad and speaks inappropriately to almost anyone he comes in contact with. This is true when Hamlet says to Ophelia: "Go to, I'll no more on it, it hath made your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on it, I hath ... already. He is rud...

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... Hamlet, Ophelia is an innocent, nave little girl that put too much trust in the men in her life. She is a very young teenager who lost her mother, possibly at birth. She has a father Polonius and a brother Laertes who have gone to great measures to shelter her from the harsh realities ... his father's murderer. Hamlet, while observing his mother in action comes to the conclusion that deceitfulness is a woman's true nature. So he decided to test Ophelia's loyalty. Ophelia, who truly does love Hamlet, but at the same time loves and wants to obey her father and brother, is having an emotio...

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... right away when he is praying he will send Claudius to heaven and not to hell. This is however not true as we see that when Claudius finishes praying he says "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go"(3,iii,97-97). This tells us that Claudius does not ... results in his death along with the death of many others. Hamlet is very passionate and attached to his mother but at the same time this passionate love for his mother has made him frustrated after the incestuous marriage of his mother to his uncle. As a result of this marriage he has also be...

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... those around him about the cause of his mental condition, which leads them into conclusion of what his true intentions are behind his actions. This thought is represented through Hamlet misleading Polonius into believing that his love for Ophelia was the main cause of his madness. After Hamlet's confrontation with his father's ghost, ... he begins to establish a lack of trust in women. His feigned madness helps him express his internal emotions to Ophelia about how he lost his trust on her as ... Hamlet's death, example from the play where Hamlet explains to Horatio, "One scene of it c...

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