In contrast to the ghost's opinion of the crime, King Claudius feels mixed remourse and self serving ambition. In lines 36-39, Claudius compares his crime to the crime of Cain in the Bible. ... These lines clearly show that while Claudius did plot his brother's demise, he did not slay without remourse. ... He also expresses his love for the queen, his dignity, and confusion in lines 46-49, "The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen...From me, whose love was of that dignity..." ... In true political manner, Claudius' words flow smoothly but the his meaning runs converse to his w...

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Claudius is presented as a multi-faced character. ... Claudius seem to have a large, booming voice in the film. ... Claudius is dressed with a nicely contemporary look. ... In the text, it is never clear if Hamlet ever truly loved Ophelia, and we are left to decide this for ourselves. ... Ophelia could not handle the loss of Hamlet's love, her brother's absence, and her father's death. ...

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He urges Hamlet that he must take revenge for his murder and kill Claudius, and says, "If thou didst ever thy father love/...Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (I.v: 29, 31). ... When the play (appropriately titled "The Mouse Trap" because of its design to catch Claudius) is performed, Claudius storms out, crying, "Give me some light: away!"... Hamlets first opportunity to kill Claudius is when Claudius is confessing to god. ... He wants Claudius to have to go through purgatory, so although this is the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius, he can't. ... Hamlet stops himself from...

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Claudius' motives to kill the old King Hamlet was to become King himself, to be more important and powerful than he was before and also to marry Gertrude whom he loved. ... Hamlet refers to King Claudius as a "bloody, bawdy villain" (2.2.580). ... That way, Claudius will go to hell, as opposed to heaven. ... Therefore he must wait for Claudius to sin in order to fulfill is destiny. ... Hamlet learned that he needed to kill King Claudius in order to get revenge on him for killing his father, however it had to be under the circumstance that Claudius' soul would be sent to he...

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The play Hamlet begins with deception as Claudius has killed his brother, King Hamlet, in order to take power and the love of his wife as well. ... Finally, Claudius sets up a fencing duel between Hamlet and Laertes noting that it is to determine who has greater love for Ophelia. ... Thus, Claudius also has a plan B in the case Hamlet will be victorious. ... He appeared to love and care for his son as he gave him advice about being true to yourself and not be false to anyone else. ... Yet, in reality Hamlet actually does love her and would never harm her. ...

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Who places the blame of his death upon his brother, Claudius, who has married his once widowed wife. ... Many others were killed: his mother, the court advisor Polonius, his son Leartes, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Hamlet's Love Ophelia, and Hamlet himself; all because of Hamlet's procrastination. ... As well they each show similarities to the noble late King Hamlet, or the deceitful King Claudius. ... This is shown by their betrayal of Hamlet, their school friend, in order to please the king, Claudius. ... (II, ii, 60-79) Telling King Claudius pure facts about their meeting with For...

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Hamlet has no respect for Ophelia he says to her "I did love you once". "I loved you not" (3.1.1628). ... Ophelia told her father, Polonius that Hamlet's madness was due to his love for her. ... Gertrude told Claudius "This mad young man. But so much was our love. ...

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This delay ultimately leads to his own death, and the deaths of many loved ones Hamlet was a very intellectual man who recently came back from university in Wittenberg, to morn the passing of his great father King Hamlet. ... He wanted Claudius to suffer just like his father is suffering in his after life he doesn't want Claudius to get away with what he has done. ... Hamlet knew he could not kill Claudius because of his beliefs, he knew that if God wanted Claudius dead, it would happen. ... (3,2,293-294) Hamlet only tragic flaw through the play was that he procrastinated in...

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At first glance, it is seen that Polonius loves his son. ... He does love Laertes, but fears what Laertes may do to his name. ... He is a man of love but is more concerned with his position and status in life. ... Polonius senses that Hamlet is mad and believes it is because of his love for Ophelia. ... Claudius then states, "You are the most immediate to our throne; / And with no less nobility of love / Than that which dearest father bears his son, / Do I impart toward you. ...

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Hamlet and his Uncle Claudius don't get along too well because of all the commotion that Claudius has caused. ... Hamlet led her to believe that he had the most undying love for her and would always love her. In his rage to catch the new King Claudius in act of sin he mistakes Ophelia's father for Claudius and ends up stabbing and killing Ophelia's father. ... After Ophelia's death, Claudius makes a plan with Ophelia's brother to kill Hamlet. ... That didn't seem to be working so well; therefor Claudius dumps the poison into a drink and tries to set up Hamlet t...

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Polonius was a friend of Claudius, and when Claudius bacame the king, Polonius a member of his council and his informant. ... Hamlet was the nephew of Claudius. ... Ophelia was a young girl who was in love with Prince Hamlet. ... Polonius believed theat Hamlet's insanity was due to Ophelia's refusal of his love. ... Gertrude loved her son, Hamlet, more than anyone else in the world. ...

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Hamlet is the play's supposed "good guy", since Claudius wronged Hamlet and his father the audience wants to sympathize with Hamlet and see him triumph over Claudius. ... Here, Hamlet tells Ophelia he doesn't love her. ... I did love you once. ... The audience certainly doesn't see Gertrude as woman who truly loved her first husband, but her love for Claudius does not seem to warrant the hate Hamlet expresses in this scene. ... he was on a mission, for his father, he hurt people he loved to avenge his father, his greatest love. ...

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He wasn't yet ready to kill Claudius. ... Polonius actually thought that Hamlet was mad because his love for Ophelia was rejected. Hamlet does love Ophelia as it is later revealed in the play, but at this part of the play he puts on his antic mask and pretends not to love her. ... When Gertrude informs Claudius of what has occurred they both realize that his madness is not caused by the rejection of love from Ophelia. ... "But so much was our love we, would not understand what was most fit; but, like the owner of a foul disease" "(Shakespeare 1666). ...

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Polonius orders his daughter not to believe in Hamlet's "love-talk.... He thinks Ophelia is a fool for believing in Hamlet's professions of love. ... She is easily led by the men she loves. ... Ophelia is passive throughout her father and Claudius' devious scheme. ... Polonius and Claudius obscure Ophelia's affections for Hamlet and her perception of what love truly is. ...

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He must decide whether to kill his uncle Claudius and revenge his father's death. ... He hates his mother for marrying Claudius so soon after his father's death, and he is in love with Ophelia until she rejects him. ... Gerrude is the widow of the late King Hamlet, and the current wife of Claudius. She seems unaware that Claudius killed her former husband until Hamlet confronts her directly. ... Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, she is in love with Hamlet but rejects him after her father orders he to do so. ...

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Hamlet thinks about his mom as a slut on the grounds that she wedded Claudius after her spouse's passing. ... Ophelia, his mystery love, adores the young prince Hamlet, yet is induced against her fascination by her dad, Polonius, and her sibling Laertes. ... Gertrude is stuck with King Claudius, and I do thinkthat Gertrude cherishes him. ... She remains by Claudius and she adores him, while, cherishing her child. By her decision to love Claudius and remain by him she builds to the mayhem of the circumstance. ...

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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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A Parent's Love Has No Bounds " Harry, your father loves you," a loving father says to his son, who refuses to communicate with him, in the short story "My Son the Murder". ... "I remember when we weren't afraid to show we loved each other."... Hamlet's father tells him that his brother, Claudius (the new king of Denmark), assassinated him. Only one month after his father was murdered, Gertrude (Hamlet's mother) married his Uncle Claudius, leaving Hamlet feeling betrayed and depressed. ... To make things worse, Hamlet has "sworn't" (p.63: 119) his revenge on King C...

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This causes her to be deceitful, infuriating Hamlet because she put her sense of love and duty for another man above her sense of love and duty for him. ... Ophelia, who truly does love Hamlet, but at the same time loves and wants to obey her father and brother, is having an emotional conflict between the men in her life. ... So Ophelia is strategically set waiting for Hamlet to pass by while Polonius and King Claudius are hiding in the background. ... Polonius and King Claudius then plot to spy on Hamlet for positive reassurance that he has gone mad. ... death by the one she loves was enou...

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This society takes place in Denmark, where King Claudius the brother of Senior Hamlet rules the land along side Queen Gertrude, the mother of hamlet and ex wife of Senior Hamlet. ... As a result, it leads Hamlet to make bad decisions as he releases this irritation on all surrounding women, including his one true love Ophelia. ... Polonius orders Ophelia to stay clear of Hamlet regardless of the love she has for him. ... Not being able to be with the one she loves drives Ophelia to go mad especially because she knows the advice she is receiving is taking her in the wrong direction. ... The ghos...

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One of the references he made was about the love his father had for his mother. This proves that his heart is breaking not only for the loss of love towards his mother but the fact that she does not seem to care about this loss. ... Hamlet's behaviour is additionally modified as a result of currently he has even additional of a reason to hate his uncle Claudius. ... He explains his plan to find out whether his uncle is quilt or not by watching how Claudius is reacting to a play that is very similar to how his uncle murdered his father and has taken to become the king. ... During the cours...

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To further his anguish he then finds out that his mother has married his Uncle Claudius. After being visited by the ghost of his father, Hamlet discovers that his Uncle Claudius was behind the murder of his father. ... He first tells that he loves her, but then says he does not love her. ...

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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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