Johann von Goethe explains this as Hamlet's hopes fading away with his mother's increasing love for Claudius. ... However Hamlet is only melancholy because of the loss of love from Gertrude. ... Hamlet's secret meaning behind this in layman's terms is, "How could you fall in love with Claudius, you should be in love with me!" ... Before he dies, Hamlet forces Claudius to die the same way his mother did because he believes that Claudius is now just as responsible for her death. ... He finally acts when all that he could ever love has been forever destroyed. ...

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For if he would have told her that he loved her and he knew that she loved him too, then different events would have occurred and maybe she wouldn't be lying in front of him. ... Hamlet showed strength by not allowing Claudius to go through with his plot to kill Hamlet through the letter Claudius sent to Paris. ... After his father died, his uncle betrayed, a brotherhood, and his love was lost. ... So, why does Claudius do next? ... Claudius also put poison on the blades of the swords. ...

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Hamlet's view of his mother is first presented in his soliloquy immediately following his conservation with Claudius and Gertrude. ... Hamlet also makes constant reference to the speed at which Gertrude the memory of his father and married Claudius. ... By making reference to the "wicked speed" of which Gertrude abandoned his father, Hamlet is really commenting on how quickly Claudius was able to court on her. Gertrude is weak because she fell to Claudius within a month. ... The mother he loved, causing the minds of Hamlet corrupted through his actions and behaviors. ...

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Hamlet is also unhappy, his father had been murdered, and his mother had remarried his uncle Claudius. However, he decides rather than making the best of the situation, to take revenge on his uncle Claudius "Haste me to know it, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge"(1.5.33-35). ... Hamlet is narcissistic and concerned about himself, disregarding the people he loves in order to achieve revenge. ... Diana and Dunstan fall in love, but shortly after he decides she reminds him of his mother, Deptford, and Mary, finally ending their rom...

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While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he consciously embarks on a quest to seek the truth hidden in Elsinore; this mission of Hamlet's is in stark contrast to Claudius' fervent effort to obscure the truth of King Hamlet's murder. ... Claudius assures himself the crown by murdering the King while Hamlet is away at Wittenberg. Not only is Hamlet offended that he is not King, but he questions his worth since he did nothing, even though he was away, to stop Claudius and take the throne for himself. ... What is greater than Hamlet's loss of belief o...

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If he had actually acted out his father's revenge, he would have fed Claudius' guts to all of the region kites of scavenging birds, by now. ... This is a pretty powerful simile because a whore, by definition, is a woman who trades real love for false lust. ... He plans on using the play that the players will perform to act out the murder of his father, as the Ghost told it to him, and he will see if this gets the truth out of Claudius. ... The players will display the hoard of emotions that Hamlet has kept locked away for all to see and he will closely observe Claudius as he witnes...

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From the beginning of the play, Ophelia had been discouraged, and even forbidden from being with the man she loved, Hamlet. ... She begins to realize no matter how much she loved Hamlet, and no matter how much he loved her, she would never be truly happy; because of the fact that it was not in Polonius' best interest. ... Ophelia was used as a pawn in Claudius and Polonius' game, and she had no choice but to comply. ... All she wanted was to be with the man she loved, and live happily. ... She was driven to this point as a result of her inability to be with her love, due to class, h...

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He could have stayed hidden, yet when he found out that it was Ophelia that was dead, he went out to say good bye to his love one last time. ... The things he told Ophelia about not loving her were not true, he actually "loved Ophelia" (V i 285). He also stated that "forty thousand brothers/ could not with all their quantity of love/ make up [his] sum" (V i 285-287). The other clues that shows that Hamlet was not mad was that he was able to write a play to fit the crime that Claudius did to his father. ... He first told her that he "never gave her aught" (III i 105), then he told her ...

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• Grade Level: High School