... are usually associated with growth and nature which are seen as positive images. Also the garden is traditionally associated with Eden and therefore the imagery here is of Eden falling apart. Hamlet repeatedly compares his father to Claudius. Hamlets sees his father as god like, "Hyperion", the sun-god compared to the inferior Claudius who he sees as "satyr" a lecherous creature, half man, half goat ... his mother and her passionate feelings towards him, "That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face to roughly" The use of religious and positive imagery, such as "heaven an...

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... he is now neglected and unimportant now that his father is dead. He says it's an "unweeded garden" that eventually spreads to the theme of decay throughout the play as almost everyone dies. Hamlet would want nothing more than to wash his feelings of betrayal and neglect down the drain and just wash them all away. He watched Ophelia fall and eventually drown. Those are all ... feelings he no longer wants to have to "move on" because he was in love with Ophelia. She betrayed him also, because of her controlling father. By deceiving him and helping Polonius ... spy on him was too much for...

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... Claudius" unworthiness to follow his father as the new king. Hamlet describes the difference between his father and uncle as equal to the difference between himself and Hercules. His father had not been dead for even two months, not long enough to feel the wind of heaven. Hamlet illustrates the love he has for his deceased father, and then wonders the question "Must I remember?" (Line 15). Hamlet figures ... that if he did not remember the past, the present will not appear as bad. "Heaven and Earth!" he exclaims comparing the past to the present. Hamlet also thinks of his mother, and re...

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... Claudius. Hamlet can't decide what to do, 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. Throughout the story, disease plagues Denmark and the people in it, shown by...

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... seems to 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 be understood to include Claudius taking over as monarch and thus bringing ... and doesn't understand his mother's recovery from her husband's death. He describes his father's love for Gertrude as so great "that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly" and bears re...

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... and corruption which is shown with words like "gross" (I,II, 138) and he also refers to his world as an "unweeded garden" all this shows how unstable hamlets state of mind is since he can't seem to think of anything good about the world he lives in which is caused by his fathers death and his mother remarrying so quickly to King Hamlet's brother ... is responsible for his fathers death. When Hamlet finds this out he will need to come up with the plan to avenge his father's death and let the country know that their new king is responsible for King Hamlet's death. When Ophelia will reject...

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... but still in control. During the showing of the play, Hamlet is starting to loose control of his madness because he interrupts the players several times and goes as far as jumping on to the stage to see the King's face. He mentions several remarks as :If she should break it now!" during the beginning of the play and "As woman's love" after Ophelia has said the prologue is too brief. Hamlet ... also asks his main victims about the play, especially towards his mother who replies "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." When the Player King falls asleep in a chair as Hamlet carries it w...

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... hatred and distress, by comparing life to be "weary, stale, flat and unprofitable" which is seen in the following lines. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie,'tis an unweeded garden(1,ii133-135) Thus with the loss of his father and his mother's marriage to his uncle, Hamlet feels inadequate and incapable. As a result ... that Claudius does not feel guilty about the wrongs he has done by killing the king. Thus we see the delayed actions of Hamlet results in his death along with the death of many others. Hamlet is very passionate ...

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... , but does not wish to die a sinner. Hamlet continues with his depressed rant stating "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/ Seem to me all the uses of this world!"(135-136) He likens the earth to an "unweeded garden"(137) where only "rank and gross"(138) entities exist and thrive. It is at this point in Hamlets speech that he a changes focus from his ... line "Frailty, thy name is woman!"(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 lov...

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