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Explore the character of hamlet in hamlet by shakespeare
Hamlet's character development
Hamlet's power struggle
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Claudius the new King of Denmark and his new wife Gertrude, enter the stateroom which is currently occupied with members of the council. Members include Voltemand, Cornelius, Polonius, Laertes and lastly, the Great Hamlet dressed in black.
King Claudius: Although my dear brother, Hamlet is now deceased, his remembrance is still fresh within my mind. It is proper to grieve for him throughout this entire kingdom, but it's best to grieve while also thinking about one's self. Therefore, I have married my previous sister in law, Gertrude, who is now my beloved wife. We thank you all for accepting a fast marriage. I do so with a diverse feeling of sadness and happiness. As the death of the King has taken a poll on this kingdom, I thought it was
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But you have to know that your father lost his father, who lost his father before him as well. Each time, they had to mourn for their fathers for a limited amount of time. You are overdoing it as it is just plain stubbornness. It is very unmanly, as you grieve like a girl. It's not what God wants, and it only shows a helpless heart and an impatient mind. Since it is common and inevitably bound to happen, why should we take their deaths to the heart? It is considered a crime against Heaven, the dead and nature. The truth is that every Father must pass away at some point. Please stop grieving as you are and start to think of me as your new father. Everyone knows you are the most closest to our throne. I love you exactly the way any father would love his son. Your plans for returning back to Wittenberg is not what I want. Will you stay with us? Please stay with us as you are the most beloved one of my court, my nephew and my …show more content…
Remain in Denmark like us. My Beloved wife, come with me. Since Hamlet has agreed to stay, I am now very happy. Let's go.
Trumpets play in the far distance. Everyone leaves, leaving Hamlet alone. Hamlet expresses his innermost thoughts.
Hamlet: Oh.. I wish that my body would just melt into water, and become like the dew. But God has made suicide wrong, otherwise I wish I was dead. Oh God! God! How weary, stale, flat and useless this life seems to me. I am like an unweeded garden that cannot grow. But I am expected and need to grow like a seed. My father’s been dead for only two months now, actually no. Not even two months yet. He was such an excellent King, as better than my uncle, as God is to the animals. He was so loving to my mother that he would keep the winds from blowing in her face. Do I have to remember that? She was just as in love with him as she would hang on to him and grow fonder with every minute spent together. Yet, within a month of my father’s death… Oh god, I don’t even want to think about it. Women are so weak. Even with the shoes worn to my father’s funeral, crying like crazy.. An animal would’ve mourned her mate longer than she had. But there she was marrying with my uncle, my father’s brother, who is just as similar to my father as I am to Hercules. Within a month following my father’s death, before her tears had time to dry, she got married. So quick to jump and fall into their bed of incest.
knew that she didn't love him, but still proceeded to commit the rest of his life to her. Consequently, a story of forbidden passion, hatred, and jealousy unfolds.
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I have felt the pain of the loss of a Sister; have felt the pain of the death of my Mother, and felt the death of my Father. I know how it feels. I experienced it. It is painful, looking at those old kind folks who bore you; who took care of you; went through all kinds of sacrifices and pains just to look after you for years and years, until one day the child stood on one’s own two feet, and then … there they are, the parents, helpless and lifeless in front of you.
Hamlet as Victim of a Corrupt World Troubled by royal treason, ruthless scheming, and a ghost, Denmark is on the verge of destruction. Directly following King Hamlet's death, the widowed Queen Gertrude remarried Claudius, the King's brother. Prince Hamlet sees the union of his mother and uncle as a "hasty and incestuous" act (Charles Boyce, 232). He then finds out that Claudius is responsible for his father's treacherous murder. His father's ghost asks Hamlet to avenge his death, and Hamlet agrees.
How far do you agree that Hamlet’s hesitation to kill Claudius in Act Three is underpinned by religious reasons? Of all the different motives Shakespeare presents for Hamlet’s lack of action, which seems to be the most important?
Claudius is the king of Denmark, who is a very powerful and assertive man. He is the type of person that will do anything to get what he wants and everything in his power to stay king. He will do what it takes to get his way, even if that means betraying the person he is supposed to be committed to and love, his wife Gertrude. Gertrude is the mother of Hamlet, who she deeply cares for and loves. She is convinced that Claudius does as well. In order for Claudius to stay as king he must keep Gertrude happy and pleased. He accomplishes this by pretending to love Hamlet in front of Gertrude when in reality he wants to kill Hamlet. Claudius faces the truth that his secret got out and Hamlet knows he killed King Hamlet. Not wanting to ruin his reputation and of course stay king he plans to have Hamlet killed. He lets Gertrude believe...
Hamlet is left so distraught by his father 's death and his mother’s quick remarriage of his father’s brother that he wishes to die. Hamlet begins his soliloquy with a metaphor that shows his desire for death: “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, / Thaw,
Claudius' soliloquy about his remorse over his murder of Hamlet's father is important to the play because it's the one place where we learn how Claudius feels about what he has done. The rest of the play is all about how Hamlet feels about what Claudius has done, and I think it rounds out the play to get it from a different perspective.
In this soliloquy Hamlet once again talks about suicide. He says he would like to get rid of his endless troubles by killing himself, because in death he can sleep and have no worries.
Shakespeare uses a variety of metaphors and descriptive words to describe Hamlet’s emotional state. Hamlet is saying here that he wishes that his flesh would melt away and dissolve. He goes on to say that he wishes that God had not made suicide wrong. Terms like weary, stale, and fl...
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Claudius is seen in Hamlets eyes as a horrible person because he convicted murder and incest. Claudius had killed the king of Denmark, Old Hamlet, to obtain the position of the throne. He had been jealous of Old Hamlet’s wife Gertrude and wanted to marry her for her power. Although, such an act would be called incest and considered unnatural he did not care, all he had cared about was the power that he would be stealing from Hamlet and Old Hamlet, Gertrude’s son and husband (R). When Hamlet had talked to his f...
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