The gravedigger scene at the end of Hamlet is one of comic relief, commonly found in many of Shakespeare's tragedies: the witty commoner who gets the better of his social superior through humor. ... One major subject that is addressed is Hamlet's infatuation with death and the physical decomposition of the body, manifested primarily in his discovery of Yorick's skull, a jester of the late King Hamlet. ... Hamlet comes to terms with the fact that no matter whom the person is, commoner or king, everyone ends up the same way, a heap of dust. The funeral procession is another key ...

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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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In the major soliloquy delivered by Hamlet, a sense of intellectual debate arises. ... Hamlet's indecisiveness is also shown during Act III, scene two. ... The reason for Hamlet's production is to confirm the ghost's existence and to prove that Hamlet isn't being misguided by an evil spirit...or to prove to himself that he is not simply crazy. This scene shows the uncertainty Hamlet is dealing with, proving that Hamlet isn't sure how to avenge his father without becoming a murderer himself. ... Hamlet's sense of morality becomes his weakest link. ...

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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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In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the task of avenging his late father is bestowed upon Hamlet after learning his uncle is the one who pours poison in King Hamlet's ear. ... Hamlet gets the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius in the chapel, but decides against it because he is praying and Hamlet believes that if a person was killed while praying, they will go to heaven. ... After the miscalculated murder, Claudius exiles an eager-to-leave-Denmark Hamlet to England, sending former classmates of Hamlet's along, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. ... Although Rosencrantz and Guildenst...

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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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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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