There are many explanations for Hamlet's long delay, some of which include the physical act of being unable to commit the murder and what held him back, the fear of what would happen, the moral dilemma of taking the life of his uncle, his disbelief in the ghost, and his fascination with death. ... Hamlet's fascination with death played a large role in the delay of the death of Claudius. In Act I Scene II, when Hamlet is alone he expresses his innermost thoughts and were it not against God's law, he would commit suicide, because according to him, his world has become "weary, st...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet felt first the pain and suffering of his father's death. ... Even the attempt to kill Hamlet ended in the death of other people. ... He plays an important role in Hamlet's mother's death. ... Hamlet's life now at this point, is the most ruined a life can possibly wind up. Hamlet lost everyone who he had loved and there was no life for him after this last devastating event. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Hamlet's first soliloquy after the encounter with the ghost early in the play, when the ghost tells him that he must seek revenge, Hamlet quickly acknowledges his duty as a son. ... Hamlet's duty to the monarchy is to protect the King and Hamlet's role in society as a Prince is to show leadership, live an honourable life and ensure stability in the kingdom. ... And after we will both our judgements join In censure of his seeming. ... His revenge however is justified and he asks Horatio to report his "cause to the unsatisfied" so that society accepts Hamlet's act...

• Word Count: 1891
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

After Polonius' death, Ophelia becomes increasingly lonely, and is driven to death, due in part to Hamlet's denial of any feelings for her. ... As confusion pertaining to reality and appearance contributed to the death of Ophelia, it prolonged the life of Claudius, as he appears to be repenting for his brother's murder. Hamlet is ready to end Claudius' life and avenge his father's death, but realizes that killing Claudius while he prays would send him to heaven. ... As Hamlet becomes privy to this information, his attention focuses from avenging his father's de...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet In-Class Essay Hamlet was a very intelligent young man whose biggest downfall in life was his huge delay in taking revenge for his father's death. ... This delay ultimately leads to his own death, and the deaths of many loved ones Hamlet was a very intellectual man who recently came back from university in Wittenberg, to morn the passing of his great father King Hamlet. ... Hamlet knows that killing Claudius will only result in the death of himself, killing a king was considered high treason and the murderer would be immediately put to death. ... He wanted Claudius ...

• Word Count: 1183
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet compares his inaction to the dramatic expression the actor exhibits for the death of his character's father. ... The mystery of what comes after death is what keeps Hamlet from committing suicide. He says that people go through life with all of its problems because of "dread of something after death"(III, I, 86). ... In each of his soliloquies, Hamlet laments on his inability to act in response to his father's death. ... He would much rather think about the metaphysical questions of life than fight for anything. ...

• Word Count: 1431
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

After the late King Hamlets death, Claudius (the late Kings brother) married Queen Gertrude and became the father uncle to Prince Hamlet. ... If you can imagine, after the death of his father, and the remarriage of his mother, it is hard for him to deal with many things. ... Now we come to Hamlets love life. ... The woman in his life is the young Ophelia who is the daughter of the Kings advisor, Polonius. ... Hamlet pays Ophelia a visit after hearing the news of his fathers death. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. ... "I do not set my life at a pin's fee". ... After the appearance of his father's ghost, Hamlet begins to act strangely as if the trauma of his father's death has caused him to descend into madness. ... Hamlet's appearance changes also after he becomes "mad". ... Hamlet's relationship with Gertrude is affected greatly by the death of King Hamlet. ...

• Word Count: 2360
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Prince Hamlet's mother Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark, moves on with her life very quickly after her husband is killed. ... Hamlet says "Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements (1.4.46-48). ... As Hamlet's character develops, he fakes madness in order to learn the truth about his father's death. ... After he has unintentionally killed Polonius, he begins to feel remorseful of all of the hate within his thoughts. ... After accepting this, he returns back to the person that he was before seeing his f...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Dishonesty is the key factor surrounding the deaths of many of the characters in Hamlet, the prime act of deception being that between Claudius and his nephew and also stepson Hamlet. ... While escorting Hamlet to his death, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern actually fall victim to their own treachery. ... Deceit plays a major role in Hamlet, causing the deaths of many of the characters in the play. ... Although he does find it in the end, it comes with a costly price: his own life, and he discovers the harsh truth that "one may smile, and smile, and be a villain". After all, Hamlet himself best de...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet is quick to decide on the moral repugnance of his mother's decision to marry his Uncle just a few months after the death of his father. ... Hamlet's nobility and decency are not diminished by his inability to take immediate revenge, but his rash and impulsive actions in slaying Polonius and arranging the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do affect an analysis of the nobility of his character. ... Hamlet's decision to send his to boyhood friends to their death represents one of the many and bizarre contradictions in his character. ... Horratio's affirmation of Ha...

• Word Count: 766
• Approx Pages: 3

His entrance in young Hamlet's life commences a wrath in Hamlet that cannot be easily subdued. ... Hamlet's immense frustration with Claudius's decision to marry Gertrude gets to the point where he wishes death upon himself. ... In this scene, Claudius's guiltiness shows after he sees the players preform his murder on stage. ... In the resolution, Claudius convinces Laertes to battle Hamlet to the death in hopes of keeping his reign. ... In this gratifying moment, Hamlet finally got to accomplish his responsibility of avenging his father's death. ...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the play, Hamlet experiences an immense amount of anger due to the circumstances in his life. ... Hamlet is very much enraged at his mother for marrying too soon after his father's death, and when she approaches that subject she says it was common for people to die, he responds, "Ay, madam, it is common (I ii 76)." ... "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal -- except my life, except my life, except my life (II ii 233-235)." ... Hamlet's father's death builds up too much grief in Hamlet that his sorrow makes him contemplate suici...

• Word Count: 1315
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He even continues to wear black months after his father's death. ... Hamlet is even more stunned when the ghost tells him "the serpent that did sting thy father's life / now wears his crown" (1.5.39-40). ... Ophelia becomes mad after her father's death. ... Unfortunately Gertrude drinks in celebration after Hamlet gets a second hit on Laertes. ... Laertes's death ties in with Polonius's death. ...

• Word Count: 1604
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His father as a ghost caused Hamlet to change as a person in the play and this is very noticeable after the first appearance of the ghost. ... "What it should be, More then his father's death-, (2.2.7-8) Claudius doesn't know what to think about Hamlet. So he just places all the blame on his father's death. ... "I doubt it is no other but the main; His Father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage-, (2.2.56-57). ... He admits in his second soliloquy that he is upset because of what happen to his father and that he went to hell and that he was killed in a dammed state...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet shows that he still mourns his father's death, king Claudius tells Hamlet to look at him as a father. ... Hamlet follows the ghost, and soon after so do Heratio and Marcellus. ... The ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his death. ... Hamlet arrives and after awhile he realizes that someone is hiding behind the curtain. ... Ophelia's body arrives, Hamlet is not yet aware about Ophelia's death. ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Despite his innate characteristics, events in Hamlet's life cause him to act differently than his characteristics may imply. ... 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. ... The ghost asks Hamlet to avenge his father's death, and Hamlet promises that he will do so. After the ghost leaves, Hamlet asks Horatio and Marcellus not to repeat what the ghost said. ... In the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet concludes that nobody would choose to endure the pains of life if they were n...

• Word Count: 1516
• Approx Pages: 6

In his first scene of the play Hamlet has returned from Wittenberg because of his father's death only to see his mother married to someone new. ... After having been a good son for years he's now about to start acting strange and crazy. ... It's a view of an uncorrupted, if not quite innocent Hamlet, before his life is invaded by turmoil. ... On one hand he feels almost giddy about sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths. ... Which only resulted in more death. ...

• Word Count: 866
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

(II, i, 83)) Ophellia was very shocked and afraid of Hamlet after her encounter with him, leading us to believe this was the first time Hamlet has ever acted this way around her. ... Ophelia's psychological state also declines after her encounter with Hamlet and her fathers death. ... After Hamlet's encounter with the ghost and finding out the secret of his father's death his morals fluctuate as he decides whether to commit murder or not. ... It is only after Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost that he decides to take action and kil...

• Word Count: 1320
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

On the side the ghost triggers the whole tragedy in revealing the circumstances of his death to Hamlet. ... Old King Hamlet was a warrior king who risked his life and fought for his country on the battleground. ... Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands which he stood seiz?... He is the one who reveals his fate to Young Hamlet with the order to revenge his death (see I.5.29). ... In the theology of Catholicism, there is a notion that between the stages of death and life after the death exists a purgatory of the soul. ...

• Word Count: 1577
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

But my question would be, would Hamlet be expected to seek revenge for his father's death? ... I feel she has not only betrayed the late King Hamlet by only grieving for a short while, but she has also betrayed Hamlet by not honoring his father's death and not really caring about Hamlet's opinion. ... It's not like she can just divorce the King after so recently marrying him. ... Polonius is a "suck-up" toward the King and feels that if he has close relations with the King then he will do well in life. ... But at that point, Hamlet is now avenging his mothers death along wi...

• Word Count: 820
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Scornfully, Claudius says Fortinbras thinks "by our late dear brother's death, our state to be disjoint and out of frame" (I.2.19-20), referring not only to the state's political confusion, but its sick state of health as well. ... After the death of his father, and quick "two months nay" remarriage of his mother, every aspect of the world seems to be diseased, and is an "unweeded garden that grows to seed" (I.2.136). ... While making bitter jests at Polonius, he says, "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion" (II.2.181-182), showing his view that even...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After Hamlet realizes that Claudius is guilty, he comes across him in the chapel. ... After Hamlet met the ghost, he could not enjoy life anymore because he was not sure if seeking vengeance was right. ... Hamlet treated his mother in a rude fashion, because he loved and trusted her, but she married Claudius less than a few months after his father's death. ... However, Ophelia's love for Hamlet caused her to mistake Hamlet's original intention for his distrust and disgust towards her, and ultimately led to her own death. ... Hamlet becomes aware that his actions are due to a lac...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It is a question of morals and ethics, both of which can pose many of life's greatest challenges. ... In the visit that Hamlet receives from his dead father, the ghost specifically tells Hamlet to "revenge his [father's] foul and most unnatural murder The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown" (I. v. 25-40). ... Some of Hamlet's opportunities for killing King Claudius are poorly timed, most notably following Claudius's expression of alarm after watching an enactment of the murder of Gonzago. This is a time when Claudius's image has been tarn...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He says that King Hamlet was greatly "esteem'd" (1.1.85) by people of Denmark, and that King Hamlet became a "conqueror" (1.1.89). ... King Claudius expresses these traits when he speaks of his brother's, King Hamlet's, death. ... Claudius's true purpose for scorning Hamlet is to have Hamlet forget about his father so that he may be superior to King Hamlet. ... Hamlet's pride corresponds to his father's, who asks to avenge him even after death. ... Hamlet describes himself to be his father's heroic angel and savior that is acting out of ge...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3