marriage of his mother with Claudius. The foul play that Hamlet suspected becomes a reality and he is charged by the spirit of his dead father to avenge his father’s murder of which he is incapable. The duty is thus imposed on Hamlet and his failure to carry it out in proper time form the substance of the tragedy. With the Ghost’s description of Claudius and Gertrude‚ Hamlet as well as the spectators comes to know them in their true colours. Hence Hamlet condemns Claudius as ‘smiling damned villian’
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Claudius is ambitious man that craves power and unlike other characters of the play he gets and maintains his power in a very immoral way. Claudius‚ because of his obsession to get the power of his brother‚ poisons him and this ignites the start of the revenge going to take place by Hamlet‚ “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown” (1.5.46-47). Claudius’s brother was a great warrior that probably ruled with ideas of justice and moral balance but Claudius is a corrupt politician
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his foul and most unnatural murder.” For the next four acts‚ the plot revolves around Hamlet attempting to kill and expose Claudius. Hamlet even makes sure that Claudius does not have the slightest hope of reaching heaven. In act III‚ scene III‚ Hamlet is about to kill his father’s murderer‚ but Hamlet thinks the scoundrel is praying. Hamlet
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young prince who returns to Denmark from his studies after his father’s death. Hamlet sees his mother‚ the queen marry his father’s brother‚ Claudius which makes him very upset. Hamlet believes King Claudius killed his father so he makes a plan to get revenge but something always stops him for example‚ he thinks about
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the ghost talks to him. It tells him about how it was murdered. The ghost tells Hamlet that it was Claudius who killed Hamlet’s
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Laertes nearly overthrows Claudius‚ who he thinks killed his father‚ while it was in fact Hamlet. With Hamlet becoming increasingly unstable‚ Laertes and Claudius both plot to kill Hamlet‚ which ends up being everyone’s downfall. Just before Laertes and Hamlet duel‚ Laertes himself begins to have second thoughts about what he thinks is going to be the death of Hamlet‚ but it’s too late. Their plan falls apart‚ Laertes and Hamlet are both fatally injured‚ Hamlet finally kills Claudius‚ who accidentally poisons
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare focuses on the drive of a young prince‚ prince Hamlet‚ who is driven to act out revenge on King Claudius for his role in the death of King Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s father‚ and the many who get trapped between the familial battle and power struggle between Uncle and Nephew. Throughout this tragedy‚ it is the realizations and the hidden truths that trap many of the characters for their ineludible death. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Hamlet and Gertrude are perfectly capable of hearing
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S. Pierce Hamlet’s Race Against the Clock Patience or procrastination? If you have one‚ then others assume you are doing the other. Is this always true though? It seems in our society people are always in a hurry and need to get things done quickly that patience has lost its virtue and those people have forgotten what it means. In Shakespeare’s drama “Hamlet” this argument has arisen more times than we could count‚ but when it comes to Hamlet and his actions they are mostly of patience and
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believed Hamlet to have gone mad‚ Polonius was spying on Hamlet. He was eventually caught and stabbed. Although Hamlet believed he was killing his uncle‚ Polonius was dead all the same. Laertes‚ stricken with sadness and anger‚ conspires with King Claudius to end Hamlet’s life‚ for revenge and for justice. His desire for revenge succeeds. He poisons Hamlet‚ but this also leads to his own death‚ and the death of the King and Queen. On his deathbed he feels no joy‚ but regrets the decisions he made‚
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Hamlet returns home after he receives the devastating news about the death of his father. When he arrives in Denmark‚ he is welcomed by the incestuous marriage between his mother and uncle‚ Claudius. Hamlet cannot wrap his head around the fact that his mother was able to get over the death of his father after one month. Due to his inability to understand his mother‚ Hamlet starts to ponder the idiocy of the world‚ "How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and
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