Thesis In the play "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is sane because he plans his actions very rationally, is well aware of his surroundings, and  he admits to wanting others around him to think he is insane.    ... Analysis In this passage Hamlet realizes that if he kills him in prayer, Claudius will be forgiven for his sins and will escape hell. ... Analysis Upon hearing the insignificance of the battle Hamlet realizes the importance of avenging his father's death. ... Thus, Hamlets awareness of his surroundings and himself, support his sanity.    ... Hamlet displays effec...

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HAMLET In play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses Hamlet's dynamic character in order to justify his procrastinate behavior. ... Hamlet is a man of talk. ... Something which Hamlet does not want to see happen. ... Most of these issues are simply due to Hamlet's over analysis of morals. ... Perhaps it is because of Hamlet's disbelief in the honesty of the Ghost, which causes such hesitation in Hamlet's actions. ...

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Behind the mask, is hidden the secret of King Hamlet's death, and Hamlet's promise to the ghost to avenge his father's death. ... When Claudius marries Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, Hamlet is filled with rage and disgust. The ghost asks Hamlet to avenge his father's death, and Hamlet promises that he will do so. ... In this way, Hamlet is using his power of analysis, and therefore cannot be truly crazy. ... Overall, Hamlet is a man of radical contradictions. ...

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As we all know, the play Hamlet is essentially about life and death. We can see this through the character Hamlet. ... Shakespeare's writings in the tragedy of Hamlet reveal seven in depth soliloquies spoken by Hamlet. ... The analysis of the soliloquies help readers better understand the exact mind of Hamlet. ... ", Hamlet expresses. ...

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He also believes that he is basically acting like a whore by using his words rather than his actions (Hamlet/Line 539). ... Hamlet undeniably wants to seek revenge no one can dispute that, but it seems he's lost the passion to actually do it, which he seems to realize in himself when he states, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I"" (Hamlet/Line 505). ... Hamlet believes that if the first player had the motive that he had, he would "drown the stage with tears"" (Hamlet/Line 517). ... As we continue, Hamlet condemns the way he's been handling the situation so far. ... This is how ...

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Hamlet's soliloquy shows how disgusted Hamlet is with Gertrude, Claudius and the world which is shown in the line "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world"(I,II,133-134). It also reveals to us how saddened he is by his father's death whom he admired and looked up to and Hamlet's mothers marriage to Claudius just adds to Hamlet's grief over his father. ... This makes Hamlet even more distraught than he already was over his father's death. ... So far Hamlet has only been faced with the problems of dealing with his father's...

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