Yet you are told that perusing what you love will take you nowhere. ... Do you decide to follow what you love? ... By Act 3 scene 1 Hamlet has endured many grim events; the murderous death of his father, his mother remarrying his loathed uncle with only a short period of mourning for her husband's death, the denial of love from whom he desired, Ophelia, and is presented with the task to take revenge for his father's murder from whom he suspects is his father's ghost. ... He is very cautious and procrastinates the task of killing Claudius. If he commits the murder without being c...

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If he had killed Claudius earlier when he had the chance he might have lived. ... He did not want claudius to go to heaven. ... Revenge is a major thing keeping Hamlet alive but so is his love for Ophelia Hamlet ca not die because he loves Ophelia so much. ... He shows his true love for her at her funeral when he states : I loved Ophelia, forty thousands brothers could not with all their quantity of love, make up my sum (V, I ). ... He tells only Horatio of what the ghost said and his plans for revenge on Claudius. ...

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Hamlet displays the antic disposition in order to fool Claudius, although Claudius is the only character to not be fooled. When Hamlet denies Ophelia his love, she goes mad and takes her life. ... Hamlet went to work by coming up with a plan to act mad so that it would hide the truth from Claudius, which was that Hamlet was going to kill Claudius. ... Claudius does not believe Hamlet's attempt at pretending that he is mad. ... Claudius also has a plan that is to kill hamlet. ...

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Hamlet, at first was not sure if Claudius murdered his father because he was always depressed. ... When Laertes and others thought that his madness was because of love, Hamlet even harshly rejected Ophelia, whom he dearly loved. " you should not have believed me I loved you not" (3.1.118-120). ... Old King had told Hamlet not to harm his mother and only get revenge on Claudius. ... Hamlet only cared for the Queen and Ophelia and after the two women die Hamlet kills Claudius. Although Hamlet's steps towards Claudius's murder were small, his actions in between were big. ...

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The world of searches, judgement, revenge, love, death, and other themes are very well developed. ... After the thing it loves." ... Laertes informs Hamlet that the responsible is Claudius. ... He was a fool, manipulated by Claudius. ... CONCLUSION So, as we can see, Hamlet is about betrayal, murder, love, death, friendship and also politics. ...

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"Haste me to know', that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. " In this quote Hamlet promises that he will avenge his father's murder right away. ... It also allowed Hamlet to overcome his fear of death and afterlife, because Hamlet knew the right thing to do was to kill Claudius. Hamlet's inability to take immediate action regarding the murder of Claudius is because of his over-analytical mind. ... In addition, Hamlet waits for the perfect moment to kill Claudius when he thinks to himself, "A villain kills my father, and for t...

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Hamlet feels that his mother impulsively marries Claudius. ... This soliloquy reveals to the reader, Hamlet's feelings about the marriage since he still has great love for her. ... Even though this new relationship is very painful to Hamlet, he still keeps quiet because he loves his mother. ... Throughout the play, Hamlet procrastinates over the killing of Claudius for two main reasons. ... He does so due to the fact that by killing him while he is praying, Claudius will in turn go to heaven. ...

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The king was killed by his brother Claudius by pouring poison in his ear. After King Hamlet dies, his wife Queen Gertrude marries Claudius and he becomes king, leaving Gertrude and King Hamlet's son without having the throne. ... Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum" (III.I.42). One could say that this quote means that Prince Hamlet has more love for Ophelia than her brother did. One could say that he was was not mad because he was simply expressing his love for Ophelia when she died but on the other hand one could say that he was crazy because when Ophelia was...

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Hamlet's life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it takes a turn for the worse when the unimaginable befalls here tortured sole and she commits suicide in the river. ... His insanity that he once feigned became a reality and it had taken over his entire world, he became so consumed with hate for Claudius that it drove him to madness and there was no more reason to feign. ... Leartes soon finds that "the king's to blame" for all that has been presented, but it is too late, Hamlet quickly loses another loved one when after the death of his mother his friend mee...

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The play Hamlet is written by British playwright Shakespeare, the whole play is a tragedy about the prince Hamlet take revenge on his uncle Claudius for killed his father. ... " For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay"(line 15-17). ...

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To die,""to sleep; " To sleep: perchance to dream: "ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? ... He has turn...

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