This is evident in Act 1, in which Hamlet's love and passion for his father naturally positions him to be inferior to King Hamlet's apparition. ... Hamlet's irrational and impulsive behavior coincides with A.P. ... Hamlet has been reinterpreted as a character in many different contexts. ... As TS Eliot3 suggests, "the 'madness' of Hamlet was feigned in order to escape suspicion" thus making it Hamlet's duty to become the truth teller and restore order to Ellsinore. ... As Mary Slater4 suggests, 'Hamlet's nature is philosophical. ...

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Hamlet's soliloquy shows how disgusted Hamlet is with Gertrude, Claudius and the world which is shown in the line "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world"(I,II,133-134). It also reveals to us how saddened he is by his father's death whom he admired and looked up to and Hamlet's mothers marriage to Claudius just adds to Hamlet's grief over his father. ... This makes Hamlet even more distraught than he already was over his father's death. ... So far Hamlet has only been faced with the problems of dealing with his father's...

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This tug-of-war between two ideologies slowly tears Hamlet apart as the story progresses. ... The last command of the Ghost was simply that Hamlet "Remember me "(1.5.96). ... This would also explain why the ghost would speak only with Hamlet. ... From the end of the ghost's speech in Act 1, Hamlet's fate had already been decided. By remembering the ghost's revelations, yet choosing to share them, Hamlet chose to take action in a situation that would have most likely taken care of itself with time, as Hamlet was the heir to the throne. ...

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In Hamlet, Claudius has disrupted the Greater Chain of Being and subsequently, King Hamlet's Ghost has corrupted Hamlet's Renaissance mindset and morals in demanding he avenge his father's death. ... The murder of Old King Hamlet has caused Claudius' mindset to become corrupted in order to control Denmark for himself. ... In Hamlet, Ophelia and Gertrude are mistreated and accused of relying on their sexual appetite for self-fulfillment. ... This psychological crux is a result of Hamlet needing time to devise the mousetrap in order to successfully gain evidence for revenge,...

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Claudius accentuates the danger of Hamlet's madness to his subjects and proposes the plan to send Hamlet away. ... Claudius wants to secure his throne by sending Hamlet to England; hence this is foreshadowing future occurrences since Hamlet does get sent away. ... This foreshadows Hamlet's execution of revenge for the late King in a later scene. ... Moreover, the King demonstrates extreme irony when he at first desires Hamlet's stay in Elsinore, where he can keep an eye on Hamlet, and requests him not to return to Wittenberg. Yet now, he wants to send Hamlet away to England fo...

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After King Hamlet is murdered, his ghost appears to Hamlet demanding the revenge of his murder, accusing his brother Claudius. ... Had the King punished Hamlet, the public would have born a bitterness towards him because they "convert [Hamlet's] gyves to graces" (Act IV, Scene VII). ... Through this similar situation, Hamlet's deliberation is highlighted by Laertes' haste, and Laertes' haste by Hamlet's deliberation. ... Hamlet and Laertes then both wound each other, but Laertes is the first to die, parting with the words "Exchange forgiveness with me...

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Hamlet In the opening scene of Hamlet Shakespeare introduces us to vital background information that evokes the action of the main plot. ... Horatio then answers "Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,/ Thereto prick"d on by a most emulate pride,/ Did forfeit, with his life, all those lands/ Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror" and now young Fortinbras plans to reclaim the Norwegian lands his late father lost to king Hamlet. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate