Hamlet, the main character of the play is depressed as a result of present circumstances in his life. It has been only two months since his father died, and he is still in mourning for his father's death. ... Hamlet's mother married Claudius very soon after becoming a widow. ... He also swears that he will forget all matters and that his life will be focused on one event, avenging his father's murder. ... And now Hamlet will play a role as if he's insane in order to avenge his father's death. ...

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This feeling of depression is one which Hamlet retains throughout the play, contemplating the consequences of his death. Throughout the remainder of the play, Hamlet will continue to think about taking his own life, and weighing his options. ... In fact, his future soliloquies continue to revolve around Hamlet pondering death. In the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet is still indecisive about which is better: life, or death. ... Although he does finally gain the courage to act on this, it is rash and turns out to not be Claudius after all. ...

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Hamlet is still lamenting his father's death when he is struck with the news of his mother's remarriage. ... Hamlet, after expressing his grief and depression, addresses his feelings he still has for his late father. ... Hamlet shows pure disgust towards his mother, as she had not even mourned her husband's death longer than a month. ... Hamlet does all but suggest that his mother had artificially mourned his father's death. ... Hamlet has grown to hate everything about the world and life in general. ...

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After the deaths of Hamlets and Laertes' fathers, both sons had different methods of taking out the action of revenge. ... He wanted Hamlet dead right away and decided to do this by planning a crooked fencing match which would result in Hamlet's death. ... After Laertes discovered that Hamlet was the one who killed his father and after the sudden death of his sister Ophelia, he went crazy with rage and sadness and could not bare to handle anymore bad news. ... Hamlet is saying to Ophelia that he is declaring that there will be no more people getting married be...

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Why is Shakespeare's work still able to challenge and inspire people four hundred years after it is written? ... Hamlet is a play about a young man who has different issues in his life that he needs to work out. ... In act I, scene ii, Hamlet's disgust with his mother's incestuous relationship and pain over his father's death is no more clear then in the lines of his speech, "But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was, to this / Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / visit her face...

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The play hamlet has entertained audiences for centuries and for centuries the answer to one question has eluded audiences, who is hamlet. ... The king's brother Claudius promptly marries Hamlet's mother and takes the throne for himself, much to hamlets displeasure. The ghost of his father, who tells him that he was in fact murdered, soon confronts hamlet and asks that he avenge his death. ... One main aspect of hamlets character is the huge amount of anger in him due to the recent occurrences in his life at the time. The most significant reasons for this are the fact that his mother ...

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As we all know, the play Hamlet is essentially about life and death. ... Hamlet's first soliloquy (Act 1, scene 2) shows that he is angry with his mother and upset over his father's death. ... Later on in the play, his only purpose in life is to avenge for his father's death. ... It gives Hamlet a reason to be acting so mad because there is a lot to deal with in his life, his character becomes relatable to the audience because he is overwhelmed therefore allowing there to be some justification of his actions. ... By talking about death Hamlet again allows the audience to rela...

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Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. ... His mother is another whom Hamlet feels betrayed him as well as her former husband by casting aside all love she felt for him and marrying his brother only a few months after his death... Hamlet's emotions suffered another casualty with the loss of the love his life Ophelia. ... These actions lead Ophelia with no one to talk with and she takes her own life. ... Ophelia was someone he could have confided in and yet he shunned her until her death. ...

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Hamlet: Sane or Insane After Hamlet has discovered the truth about his father, he goes through a very traumatic period, which is interpreted as madness by readers and characters. With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world"seem to him "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." No man in his right state contemplates suicide and would take his life due to human frailty. ... After Hamlet kills Polonius he will not tell anyone where the body is. ... Hamlet appears to be...

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Hamlet, the enigmatic Shakespearean character has enthralled readers for centuries. ... Hamlet's life and actions taken represent his characteristics that fascinate and challenge readers today and will surely continue to do so for more generations to come. ... (I.ii.161-162), which he feels is the seed of the turmoil that has left so much unhappiness in his life. Act I scene 5, is Hamlet's second soliloquy, after he has just seen and spoken to his fathers ghost who reveals the truth to him, he begins to contemplate what course of action he will take for ...

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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. ... When he sees his father's ghost the ghost tells him that "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown" (I.V.24). ... One could say that he was sane because when he found out about his fathers death he wanted to seek revenge on his uncle who killed his dad. ... Also another reason someone could say that Prince Hamlet is sane when he says "To be or not be, that is the question" (III.I.5...

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Yet this could be viewed as unjustified as both texts present them as arguably formidable; Gertrude in Hamlet may be viewed critically by audiences as she seems to act without grief when referring to her late husband's death as "common"" in Act One, Scene Two. ... She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and plac...

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Nevertheless, it is done as a gesture of love, after a parent's suspicion of a problem is confirmed. ... Only one month after his father was murdered, Gertrude (Hamlet's mother) married his Uncle Claudius, leaving Hamlet feeling betrayed and depressed. ... After learning that his mother remarried with "most wicked speed"(p.31: 161), Hamlet curses the law against "self-slaughter"(p.29: 136) and "all the uses of this world" (p.29: 138) seem to have no meaning. ... Hamlet's decision to act "mad" drives him into insanity. ... Consequently, this outburst led to his death as well as o...

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Paul resisted the urge to follow her into the darkness and, with a great effort, turned towards life. ... After growing Paul mends his wrong doings as well as he can and "negates the child within himself"1. ... After an initial stage of happiness in their marriage, the class difference between them starts to estrange them from each other. ... Because of heavy labor, poorly off life and burden of family life, Walter Morel turns exceeding anxiety and pang. ... She had leave me no room, not a bit of room" While Miriam ran after Paul ardently, and they had date frequently, Paul came back home...

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