While reading Hamlet, as the reader focus on one character, the reader can examine why that character is significant in the play. ... Gertrude's character made it seem like she didn't care for Hamlet and her only priority was King Claudius. ... By the time everything went chaotic with Hamlet accidentally killing Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes father, and Ophelia getting wacky ever since she found out her father died in Act 3 Scene 4 to Act 4 Scene 5, Gertrude is trying to push everybody to the side, especially Ophelia. ... Gertrude feels guilty what happened to Ophelia. ... She was on...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet is a complex character with multiple character traits that lead him through his many confusing and often conflicting actions throughout the play. ... In this way, Hamlet is using his power of analysis, and therefore cannot be truly crazy. ... With his actions of insanity, Hamlet essentially pushed Ophelia into suicide. ... Hamlet is also a melancholy and almost depressed character. ... All in all, the character of Hamlet is a complex character with many conflicting aspects and characteristics which are revealed in the play Hamlet. ...

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The main characters in Hamlet include Hamlet, Cluadius, Polonius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes, and Horatio. ... The main character is Hamlet. ... He is a deceptive character. ... Ophelia is another character. ... Ophelia's brother is Laertes. ...

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Hamlet's strength of character is in fact highlighted by his desire for the truth. ... 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 persecution of his mother and vituperation of Ophelia is equally difficult to excuse. ... He feels betrayed by his mother and rejected by Ophelia. ... Hamlet is an incongruous and contradictory character. ...

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CHARACTERS Rosencrantz - A bumbling, ridiculous but harmless Elizabethan gentleman. ... While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. ... In fact, the entire court seems to be at odds with the two main characters. ... PLOT ANALYSIS It is difficult to comment on the plot of R&G as a whole, because it is composed of so many disparate ideas. ... They are not people in search of meaning; they are characters in search of motiva...

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• Grade Level: High School