Intrigued-and a little scared, (though he would never mention that)-Horatio convinces the two guards he accompanied on their watch to bring the matter straight to Hamlet rather than Claudius. ... Loyalty is synonymous to love. So, Hamlet's, or even Laertes' love toward Ophelia could be used as a proper example. ... Loyalty to his dead father and sister drove Laertes to a need for retribution, vengeance for his dead loved ones, and he got it, though not in the way he had expected. ... "No one has greater love than this: to lay down one's life for a friend....

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If he had killed Claudius earlier when he had the chance he might have lived. ... He did not want claudius to go to heaven. ... Revenge is a major thing keeping Hamlet alive but so is his love for Ophelia Hamlet ca not die because he loves Ophelia so much. ... He shows his true love for her at her funeral when he states : I loved Ophelia, forty thousands brothers could not with all their quantity of love, make up my sum (V, I ). ... He tells only Horatio of what the ghost said and his plans for revenge on Claudius. ...

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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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Another reason Hamlet is loved by all is the fact that almost everyone can relate to Hamlet in one way or the other. ... In Claudius we find a different sickness, the sickness of the guilty. ... Claudius is also a gifted orator and treats his new Queen, "The imperial jointress to this warlike state" (Iii9), with love and respect. ... Such love leads to the conclusion; under different circumstances Hamlet would have been a noble King. ... "He is justly served/It is a poison tempered by himself [Claudius]" (Vii329-330), Claudius dies in the same fashion as his brother before him. ...

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The world of searches, judgement, revenge, love, death, and other themes are very well developed. ... After the thing it loves." ... Laertes informs Hamlet that the responsible is Claudius. ... He was a fool, manipulated by Claudius. ... CONCLUSION So, as we can see, Hamlet is about betrayal, murder, love, death, friendship and also politics. ...

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Hamlet feels that his mother impulsively marries Claudius. ... This soliloquy reveals to the reader, Hamlet's feelings about the marriage since he still has great love for her. ... Even though this new relationship is very painful to Hamlet, he still keeps quiet because he loves his mother. ... Throughout the play, Hamlet procrastinates over the killing of Claudius for two main reasons. ... He does so due to the fact that by killing him while he is praying, Claudius will in turn go to heaven. ...

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Hamlet has killed Polunoiu's thinking it was the king, Claudius. ... His only true love is dead , which is seen when Hamlet says," I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. ... Hamlet had already lost a father and now her love is dead as well. Another, obstacle is when Claudius had written a letter saying that Hamlet should be executed. ...

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The one time Hamlet has the opportunity to kill Claudius and achieve his revenge is when Claudius is confessing his sins. Here, Hamlet does not kill him because if Claudius were to die right then, he would have gone to heaven. ... Hamlet's fascination with death played a large role in the delay of the death of Claudius. ... Or perhaps, if Hamlet truly believes that death is an escape, he does not want to let Claudius escape, instead forcing him to li! ... I loved you not." ...

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The three main characters that consistently do so are Claudius, Gertrude and the ghost of Hamlet's late father. ... After killing his brother and seizing the throne, Claudius employs spies to report on Hamlet's state of mind. ... Claudius's greed, deceitfulness and fear of death add a heavy weight to Hamlet's mind and distress. Claudius's wife, Gertrude, also initiates heartbreak within Hamlet. ... He, "with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to [his] revenge" " (1.5.29-31). ...

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In Act I, Scene 5, Hamlet urges the ghost: "Haste me to know't, that I with wings as swift as the meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge." ... He must have done them, therefore, irrespective of his revenge on Claudius and his motivations and one can conclude that it was his mental madness that seized his spirit. ... He screams: "Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/ over the nasty sty-" (III.iv.92-95). ... From what Hamlet says after the slaying, he seems to think that it may have been Claudius (III.iv.27...

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Hamlet Assignment "I heard thee speak So proceed you." At this time the players have just arrived and Hamlet begins to tell them what they will be performing. He asks the players for a passionate speech. He begins telling them about a speech he had ounce heard that he truly loved. The speech w...

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Hamlet's life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it takes a turn for the worse when the unimaginable befalls here tortured sole and she commits suicide in the river. ... His insanity that he once feigned became a reality and it had taken over his entire world, he became so consumed with hate for Claudius that it drove him to madness and there was no more reason to feign. ... Leartes soon finds that "the king's to blame" for all that has been presented, but it is too late, Hamlet quickly loses another loved one when after the death of his mother his friend mee...

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The play Hamlet is written by British playwright Shakespeare, the whole play is a tragedy about the prince Hamlet take revenge on his uncle Claudius for killed his father. ... " For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay"(line 15-17). ...

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He had virtually no one to live for: his love, Ophelia, was dead, as was his father, mother, and all their advisors. ... Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Claudius, on the other hand, are completely and unequivocally slaves to their passions, and they all end up dead. ...

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To die,""to sleep; " To sleep: perchance to dream: "ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? ... He has turn...

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