Hamlet Hamlet is a young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. ... Hamlet speaks these words in response to his fathers death, his mothers remarriage to his uncle, and the rest of his life. ... But he also realizes that he does not know what is after this life, it could be worse it could be better. ... He does not now what death is so he fails to take his life into his won hands. ... If hamlet did not have to avenge his father murder he would have killed himself after he found out Ophelia died. ...

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Throughout the play Hamlet, Hamlet only cares about his own misery happening in his life without thinking about the other people's problems and causing them to suffer. ... An example of a life he took was Polonius's. ... After a while he decides to go back to mother to discuss to her about her wedding and pretended like nothing happened because he has to avoid the unnecessary deaths and he forgets all about Ophelia so he can just get revenge. ... Ophelia was self-destructed due to the death of her father, which was caused by Hamlet. ... Hamlet is angry with her because she has marrie...

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The only thing holding Hamlet back from taking his own life is the fact that God has "fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter" (1.2.135-136). After his beloved father's death, Hamlet's immaturity is makes it harder to cope with his grief and to understand other people's behavior. ... Later on in the play, once Ophelia has drowned after the death of Polonius, Hamlet regrets what he's said and done to Ophelia. ... Soon after, when Hamlet is confronting his mother, he hears someone spying. ... Soon after, Hamlet finally realizes his destiny and fully commits...

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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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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Our Great Prince Together we have experienced many deaths but none so great as the death we will observe today: the death of our Prince Hamlet. Hamlet was a dear friend to me and to many others as well. ... He suffered through many trials and tribulations in his short life. ... He sought after justice and nothing would stop him from fighting for it. He had to make sacrifices such as losing the love of his life and creating an image for others that he was not inside. ...

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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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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(III, iv, 38-40) After discovering the body's identity, Hamlet feels Polonius' murder is not enough and proceeds to berate the corpse. This reveals his indifference towards life, and thus his evil nature. ... The death of Ophelia suggests the death of integrity and innocence. ... Since they all die a bloody blood by some fault of their own, such as Polonius being run through by Hamlet's rapier because of his too inquisitive nature, Ophelia's non-violent death emphasizes the innocence and virtue with which she lived her life. ... Ophelia's noble life, decline int...

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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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In the story of Hamlet, Ophelia is an innocent, nave little girl that put too much trust in the men in her life. ... Ophelia, who truly does love Hamlet, but at the same time loves and wants to obey her father and brother, is having an emotional conflict between the men in her life. ... After Polonius hears of this he believes that Ophelia's love is what has made Hamlet mad. ... death by the one she loves was enough to push her into insanity. ... Near the end, the death of her father leaves Ophelia mentally unstable and in a state of madness that eventually leads her to death. ...

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Hamlet, her only love, is too involved in his father's death to be able to know the true Ophelia. ... He ruins her only happiness in life by separating her from her true love, Hamlet. ... Then, after he tells Ophelia what to do he leaves for most of the play to go to France so he can find some women of his own. ... Hamlet does not take Ophelia's feelings into consideration and spends his time around her insulting her, ruining her reputation, and killing any spirit or hope she has left in her life. ... Ophelia's life was horrible beyond belief but true to life at the time for wom...

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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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