After Hamlet visits with the ghost of his dead father, he swears to avenge his death. ... The depression becomes a common theme, and in turn Hamlet often thinks about taking his own life. ... After Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" speech, he finds reason not to commit suicide. ... But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (III.i.79-83) Hamlet fears the oblivion after death. ...

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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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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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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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Thou know'st "tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity." (1.2 line 70) This is an example of how Gertrude told Hamlet to forget about his father's death and that everybody dies and to goes to eternity. ... She begins to change slightly after Hamlet's murder of Polonius (her father), thinking it is Claudius. ... Eventually she pays with her life for ignoring the message. ... Before Hamlet dies, he asks Horatio to tell the truth the full story that has led to these deaths and names Fortinbras the King. After Hamlet dies, Fortinbras arrives an...

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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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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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At the beginning of the play we see Hamlet very disturbed by the death of his father. He does not understand how his mother could marry his uncle so soon after his father's death "but two months dead-nay, not so much, not two." ... He has the thought of her marrying Claudius so soon after his father's death in his mind. ... Even after all the madness and fume she has witnessed Hamlet illustrate, she is beginning to listen to him and understand things from his point of view. ... She married Claudius so soon after her late husband's death because she is a weak person who nee...

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Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. ... Hamlet has the disillusion that women are frail after his mother's rushed remarriage as shown by "Frailty, thy name is woman! ... By disposition, Gertrude turns to the positive side of life and can't bear to face pain. ... The only thing left to make Gertrude unhappy is Hamlet's refusal to forget the death of his father or to forgive her for remarrying so quickly. In order for her to completely bury the past, she must convince Hamlet to accept her new marriage and forget his father's death. ...

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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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