What if that influence gives an order that clashes with your moral code, testing the boundaries of your conscience? ... Laertes blames Hamlet for both the death of his sister as well as the death of his father. Both accusations are justly put forth, though Polonius' death was an accident of sorts, and Ophelia's was merely failure to save one's self from drowning. ... It is only fitting, therefore, that their scheme should backfire, resulting in the deaths of-not only Hamlet, who the poisoned blade and cup were meant for-but the inadvertent deaths of the queen, Hamlet's moth...

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The decision to hide in Gertrude's room leads to his death, where he is stabbed by Hamlet. In the bedroom scene, Hamlet reveals the truth of his insanity to his mother Gertrude, "...it is not madness, That I have utt"red: bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness, Would gambol." ... In the play Hamlet explains to Horatio that his grief stricken insanity is a means to test his enemies. ... Hamlet cleverly uses insanity to his advantage throughout the play by making it easier to test and gather information from his enemies. Which in the end helped him to achieve ...

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Along the way, they have test and trials which furthers their understanding of them selves. ... Hamlet ˜s departure is caused by polonius's death. ... Claudius is worried, because Polonius death could have been his death and sends Hamlet to England. ... Both characters have departed successfully, and are soon faced with test and trials , which they must over come for a better self understanding. ... Likewise, Hamlet also has to over come test and trials. ...

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Simba was crushed by this and had to avenge his father's death to reclaim his position of power. ... Confusion torments him to making the wrong decision, in seeking his father's death in a appropriate manner. ... In order to test the ghost's testament, he constructs a play called "The Mousetrap" to test Claudius' guilt. ... Upon his return from England, he begins to burn with passion and anger against Claudius for his father's death. ... It is this change in his standpoint that allows him to seek full revenge for this father's death despite the consequences that m...

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Also, the fact that madness cannot be measured or calculated by some standardized test (like they use to test for IQ) makes it extremely difficult to discern whether someone is truly mad or not. ... Hamlet is constantly seeking revenge for the wrongful death of his father at the hands of Claudius. ... Hamlet questions his bravery and wonders why he is waiting so long to avenge his father's death when he has several chances to kill Claudius and he hasn't. Hamlet is also filled with a deep sadness that he has incurred due to the death of his father. ... Someone who is mad woul...

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While secretly plotting to avenge his father's death, Hamlet fakes insanity as a diversion from his actual intentions. ... Hamlet's love for Ophelia is put to the test as he struggles to reaffirm his faith in women while, at the same time, seek the truth behind his father's death. ... Hamlet pretends to be insane throughout the play as he secretly plots to avenge his father's death. ... Ophelia's death reminds Hamlet of how much he loves her. ... His heart stayed true to her and it was most apparent upon her death towards the end of the play. ...

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The circumstances in which Claudius was implicated in his father's death are questionable. ... Hamlet says that he will avenge his father's death with "wings as swift as meditation" (1.5.30). ... He decides to test Claudius's conscience by putting on "a play within a play.... Hamlet's delay in avenging his father's death is intentional. ... His actions were rewarded, and his father's death was avenged without the tragedy that Hamlet and Laertes experienced. ...

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Later they meet near a graveyard and, as the sight of skulls being thrown about by the gravedigger leads Hamlet back into morbid reflections on death and decomposition, but even here Horatio helps him ("Twere to ... consider so... Hamlet takes Horatio fully into his confidence about the disclosures of the ghost and about the further plan to test Claudius through the performance of a play. ... With his death, Horatio takes control of his events. ...

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The new letters ordered that the two men accompanying him should be put to death). ... Hamlet is now the man that is able to avenge his father's death and kill Claudius. ... Perhaps Hamlet did not care enough to avenge his father's death, but when Claudius murdered Hamlet's mother, he went too far. ... It is the same thing as a student saying, "Well, if I am going to waste a night of perfectly good TV- watching to study for my History test, I might as well write my English paper too." ... Hamlet kills the Claudius, finally avenging his father's death! ...

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So he decided to test Ophelia's loyalty. ... That weakness of mind and will, which permitted her obedience to her father and destroyed her hope for Hamlet's love, finally resulted in her insanity and death. ... Perhaps the primary cause of her madness was the death of her father. ... 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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The only thing that is certain is that Hamlet's emotional side was repeatedly put to the test. ... Hamlet felt first the pain and suffering of his father's death. ... Hamlet also showed more strength when he switched the death demands. ... Even the attempt to kill Hamlet ended in the death of other people. ... He plays an important role in Hamlet's mother's death. ...

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He also had motive for putting on the contrivance as it would disguise his investigation of his father's strange death and his plans for revenge against his uncle Claudius if he found him to be guilty. ... It was also important for Hamlet to be so vulgar towards Ophelia because it would not have been possible for him to continue being a caring loving boyfriend while attempting to avenge his father's death. ... This idea is depicted through his conversations with his good friend Horatio who is assisting Hamlet in his search for the truth behind Old Hamlet's death. ... Bring me to...

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Hamlet shows that he still mourns his father's death, king Claudius tells Hamlet to look at him as a father. ... The ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his death. ... He shows the king and queen letters and love poems Hamlet has given to Ophelia, and proposes a plan to test his theory. ... Ophelia's body arrives, Hamlet is not yet aware about Ophelia's death. ...

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Ultimately it ends in the same fashion, death. ... [III.i.39] It is presumed that Ophelia is a tool used by Shakespeare to reveal Hamlet's true feelings, and also as a test of the reader's attitude to, and empathy towards him. Hamlet's madness can be reviled as the provenance of Ophelia's death, or pitied as he does confess to having, "loved Ophelia"[V.i.266] at her grave. ... Hamlet is angered that his mother has married a, "smiling damned villain" [I.v.106] within a month of his father's death. ... Gertrude's appearance in the final scene is unnecessary dramatic...

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After he is informed by his father's ghost that Claudius is responsible for his murder, Hamlet tests if Claudius is truly evil before seeking revenge. ... Analysis Upon hearing the insignificance of the battle Hamlet realizes the importance of avenging his father's death. ...

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To Trust or not to Trust In William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet, many relationships are put to the test throughout the play. ... His ambition to keep his position as King forces him to plot against Hamlet, which eventually leads to his death. ... (V, ii, 352-353) Even after his death, Horatio still wants only the best for Hamlet. ... Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abus"d-but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown. ... The present death of Hamlet. ...

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When do you know a work of literature has stood the test of time? ... 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 too roughly. ... Not only the son of the Queen of Denmark; but the people as well would be much less accepting of their queen marrying her brother-in-...

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Their works have passed the test of the years and are still viewed as valuable today. ... Much later in the play, Laertes has just returned from France upon learning of his father's death. ... I bought an unction of a mountebank so mortal that, but dip a knife in it, where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, collected from all simples that have virtue under the moon, can save the thing from death that is but scratched withal." ...

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For most people, it's the last thing that crosses their minds when they cheat on a test or lie to the people they love. ... When morning for his father, he dressed in "customary suits and solemn black" (Hassel) and was discomforted by the thought of his mother remarrying so soon after the death of his father. ... There was no knowing what would come after death: a nightmare worse than anyone could imagine, or eternal darkness. ...

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The death of his father hits him very hard. ... The soliloquies reveal a lot about Hamlet they contain all the major themes, including death, suicide, suffering, action and the emptiness of existence. ... He tests Horatio saying "his beard was grizzled-no?". ... Examples of this are his extreme violence with Gertrude and Ophelia and later sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths because of their betrayal. ...

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Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet's soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father's death and his mother's incestuous, illicit marriage. ... Gertrude's request is made because of her concern that Hamlet is seemingly taking King Hamlet's death to be seemingly out of the ordinary, and that his death has caused Hamlet to lose touch with his peers and even himself in a state of depression. ... He must be detailed in explaining his reasons for his attitudes and with the closing statement sh...

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Hamlet is obviously experiencing grief and despair right from the beginning of the play, with the death of his father and his uncle's seizure of the throne and hasty marriage to Hamlet's mother. ... The Queen thinks that the only reason is "His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage", whereas Polonius thinks it is because his daughter rejected Hamlet, after he himself ordered her to: "I will be brief: Thy noble son is mad. ... It is not madness that I have uttered; bring me to the test, and I the matter will re-word which madness would gambol from...

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I decided, along with Carol, to perform Act III, Scene I, from Hamlet, when Ophelia obeys her father and tests Hamlet's love for her by returning his remembrances. I thought that this scene was interesting because I liked the anger I interpreted from Hamlet and the shock and sadness that I saw in O...

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