... . Shakespeare's notion that humans are desperate to find the meaning of truth is evident in his persona, Hamlet. Hamlet's character is that of a weak soul whose emotions dominate him, driving his rash actions and behaviour in his need to separate right from wrong. This is evident in Act 1, in which Hamlet's love and passion for his father naturally positions him to ... be inferior to King Hamlet's apparition. Consequently, these powerful sentiments compel Hamlet to soliloquise that he will "wipe away all trivial fond records...thy commandment all alone shall live..." after obeying the gh...

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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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... 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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... and how they enact their vengeance is one of the main contrasts between the three characters. Both Fortinbras and Laertes serve as foils to the main character of Hamlet. The character of Laretes is a mirror to Hamlet. Perhaps Shakespeare made them similar to provide a greater base for comparison when they avenge their respective father's deaths. Hamlet and Laertes both love Ophelia. Hamlet wants Ophelia to be his wife ... he ironically set out to avenge. It is hinted throughout the play that the state of Denmark has become corrupt. Marcellus" famous quote "There is something rotten in t...

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... me" (IV.3.65), portraying the psychologically ailing prince as a personal sickness, a fever raging in his body. Hamlet, later, in his first soliloquy, deplores of the world "things rank and gross in nature possess it merely" (I.2.136). After the death of his father, and quick "two months nay" remarriage of his mother, every aspect of the world seems to be diseased, and is an "unweeded garden that grows to seed ... to the theme of disease. To Ophelia, warning of her relationship with Hamlet, he says, "The canker galls the infants of spring, too oft before their buttons be closed" (I.3.39...

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