What Ghosts Do Act one‚ Scene 1 Background As Horatio‚ Barnardo‚ and Marcellus confront and then discuss the ghost that has appeared to them‚ they demonstrate some superstitions and beliefs that they have about ghosts. Directions Reread the following lines and describe what assumptions the speakers are making about the ghost and ghosts in general. Lines: “In what particular thought to work I know not‚ but in the gross and scope of my opinion‚ this [seeing the ghost] bodes some strange eruption
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Although one of the parts of this plan‚ the cup filled with poison which would be given to the naive Hamlet‚ led to the death of Queen Gertrude as she unknowingly drank the contents of the aforementioned cup‚ leading to her death. Thus‚ in the case that Hamlet was quick to enact his revenge and did not affect any other being in the process‚ his mother would not have died. Next‚ Hamlet’s plan devastated Ophelia as amidst this plan he declared that he never loved her. This assertion affected her as
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emotions towards others throughout the novel. The first signs of an unstable‚ untrustworthy‚ lying relationship seen in the novel are between Hamlet and and his uncle Claudius. Every since the father of Hamlet died‚ Hamlet has been very upset with his mother and Claudius. What makes it worse is the fact that Hamlet’s mom‚ Gertrude‚ was seeking out pleasure right away instead of waiting for a true love to come. So now‚ Hamlet has two betrayals that already disturbed him mentally. “‘By what it fed
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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Claudius completes many evil acts. Claudius does many kinds of evil things throughout the whole story‚ and Claudius causes everyone’s death. First‚ Claudius kills Claudius’s brother‚ Hamlet’s father‚ then Claudius marries Gertrude to be king. Next‚ Claudius sends Hamlet to England because hamlet killed Polonius‚ father of Laertes and Claudius knew Hamlet would find troube there. Caudius wrote a leter to the King of England saying if they see
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dispositions‚ Hamlet ’s hesitancy at within his first opportunity to kill Claudius‚ and when Hamlet mistakenly murders Polonius in place of the king. One of the possible climaxes is definitely the play that Hamlet plans in order to see if any visible guilt is retracted from the king upon seeing it. In this scene Hamlet confirms to himself that King Claudius is guilty of his father‚ King Hamlet ’s‚ murder. Because the play causes Claudius to have to leave upon seeing one of the actors kill his own brother
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his bedroom. The spirit tells him that Claudius was the one that killed him and that he needs to seek revenge in place of his father. This causes the beginning of Hamlet’s madness in the tragedy. His madness continues to build up throughout the play finally until he was not able to take it anymore. When Claudius ended up poisoning Hamlet’s mother all the anger inside of him snapped. He killed Claudius and not in any type of polite way either‚ he made Claudius suffer for all the pain he had caused
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Whether it’d be Hamlet‚ Claudius or Polonius‚ all the male characters of the play dominate each other in one way or the other. For example‚ Claudius controls most of the characters in the play by manipulating them. Claudius tricks Gertrude‚ Polonius‚ Laertes‚ and Ophelia into doing things he wants them to do. for instance‚ he tricks Gertrude into wooing him‚ Laertes into plotting against Hamlet‚ Ophelia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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As Hamlet criticizes Gertrude for all of her misdoings‚ he reveals his hatred for Claudius and his intentions to do the king harm; at the same time‚ Hamlet also reveals his intentions to “blow [his two schoolmates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to the moon” after reading the execution letters that Claudius writes (3.4.232). At this point‚ the reader may begin to question Hamlet’s intentions and whether his plan to murder Claudius is actually feasible. For one‚ any good murderer does not reveal his
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quiet‚ and rarely showed emotion. It was when the ghost of King Hamlet appeared that revenge poisoned Hamlet’s mind. The ghost told Hamlet that it was Claudius‚ King Hamlet’s brother‚ who killed him‚ and that he must be avenged. Hamlet was then stricken with anger‚ not only at Claudius‚ but also his mother. He could not fathom how his mother‚ Gertrude‚ could marry again so quickly. Overall‚ he
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The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark‚ the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet‚ Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father‚ and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude‚ the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery
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