Claudius deceives Gertrude and uses her as a mean to gain power. ... Without knowing that it is Claudius responsible for the death of the king, Gertrude trusts Claudius for being the right heir to the thrown and marries him. Claudius also tricks everybody by showing that he is a loving, caring and responsible stepfather to Hamlet in order to gain the trust and love of Gertrude. For instance, Claudius shows his fictitious love for Hamlet in front of the Queen when he states, "This mad young man. But so much was our love"(4.1.19). ...

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Hamlet is a play of love and love lost. ... Gertrude betrays that love by marrying her brother-in-law, Claudius, and Ophelia betrays his love by refusing him on her father's advice. ... Gertrude too, experiences love lost when she loses her husband, so she turns to Claudius to replace it (just like Hamlet turned to her and Ophelia to replace his). Similarly, her second love betrays her, but by the time she discovers this, she is already dying (after Claudius accidentally poisoned her). ... You could almost call Claudius his second love, since the King wooed Laertes into joining hi...

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DOES HAMLET LOVE OPHELIA? I believe that Hamlet had a true affection for Ophelia that may have been love or would have grown into true love had it not been for the chain of events that occurred. ... Hamlet was extremely distraught over the marriage of Gertrude to Claudius. ... Hamlet also knows that Claudius killed his father and feels that his mother has defiled the memory of his father by marrying his father's murderer. ... Upon hearing of Ophelia's death Hamlet does finally admit that he did love Ophelia and regrets that he could not freely admit or express his love for he...

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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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I like many see that it is evident that Hamlet's true motivation for plotting against Claudius is that Claudius has robbed Hamlet of Gertrude; Hamlet could have pursued his mother, after his father died but marrying his mother would be morally wrong. The confrontation between Hamlet and Queen Gertrude in the castle over her relationship with Claudius portrays Hamlet's anger towards his mother. Hamlet harshly criticizes his mother for her hasty marriage to her former brother-in-law Claudius so soon after King Hamlet's death. ... Through Gertrude's conviction he wants to ...

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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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She does this by falling in love with Claudius and collaborating with him to kill King Hamlet, Prince Hamlet's father. She did Claudius a favor by marrying him because he wanted to become King and rule Denmark. ... She realizes that Hamlet knows what is going on and that he will try to kill Claudius. ... As Gertrude dies, Laertes, himself dying, discloses his and Claudius's plot against Hamlet. Hamlet then kills Claudius while dying. ...

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He is simultaneously angry with his mother, jealous of her attention to Claudius, and desperately wishing for her love. ... As a woman in the play she allowed Claudius to instill his views in her and just like Ophelia she subdues her feelings and allows a man (Claudius) to make his opinion and feelings hers. ... Although he scolds her often, he loves her just the same. ... Follow my mother"(V.ii.333-335), Hamlet's sanity snaps and all of his pain, anger, and grief are let loose because Claudius has just killed his mother, his love and his best friend. ... Hamlet seduces her and makes ...

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He is simultaneously angry with his mother, jealous of her attention to Claudius, and desperately wishing for her love. ... As a woman in the play she allowed Claudius to instill his views in her and just like Ophelia she subdues her feelings and allows a man (Claudius) to make his opinion and feelings hers. ... Although he scolds her often, he loves her just the same. ... Follow my mother"(V.ii.333-335), Hamlet's sanity snaps and all of his pain, anger, and grief are let loose because Claudius has just killed his mother, his love and his best friend. ... Hamlet seduces her and makes ...

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While planning on taking revenge on Claudius the murderer of his father he finds along the way some emotions towards Ophelia. ... Hamlet had loved her but started to act weird after seeing his father's ghost his mind was set on getting revenge towards Claudius so this lead Ophelia and Hamlet to tragedy because they were both acting crazy. ... Hamlet's urge for revenge is clouding his judgment and he doesn't realize trying to destroy Claudius is actually destroying himself at the same time, same thing for Laertes, wanting to avenge his father Polonius and sister Ophelia, he ends ...

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"Pretty Ophelia, " as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet's revenge in Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. ... The ghost's revelation that  Gertrude  dishonored Hamlet's father but also their marriage by the adultery with Claudius is contemplated by Hamlet until he goes into Ophelia's room to look upon her. ... The pain she felt after her adultery with Claudius may have been what motivated Claudius to murder her husband. ... But as she sees Hamlet's madness deteriorate even furthe...

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Childhood sexual frustration aside, Hamlet's love for his mother is one of the driving forces of the play. ... He then goes on to speak of Claudius, the murderer. ... Hamlet finally acts out his revenge, because now both his father and mother are damned because of Claudius. Hamlet enacts his revenge on Claudius: "Here, thou incestuous, murd"rous, damned Dane, drink off this poison, is thy union here? ... Is Hamlet mad about the fact that it is Claudius and not him committing the act? ...

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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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The people loved him and had no problem with the way he dictated his country. ... In the quote, the ghost refers to Claudius as a serpent due to his actions of betrayal. ... As if taking a mans life isn't enough, King Claudius proceeds to take King Hamlet's wife as well. ... Hamlet feels this betrayal even before he is notified of Claudius's secret. ... Hamlet feels this betrayal even before he is notified of Claudius's secret. ...

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Hamlet's indecisiveness and the "love" that he had for his mother were two key elements of the play. ... Even in Elizabethan times, Hamlet would have been disturbed by his mother's new love. ... The fact that Hamlet had the chance to murder King Claudius could be seen as a huge mistake and the climax of the play. ... If Queen Gertrude did not marry King Claudius, Hamlet would have been king. Also, if Hamlet killed King Claudius when he had the chance, the play would have ended right there. ...

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Hamlet's emotions suffered another casualty with the loss of the love his life Ophelia. ... The final blow for Ophelia's heart comes when Hamlet kills Polonius by mistaking him for Claudius. ... The loss of his love devastates Hamlet as is evident with the lines "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum." ... The only person he trusted with the knowledge of his hatred for Claudius was Horatio, had he shared his opinion Hamlet most likely would have found allies among his friends. ...

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Hamlet reveals his strong dislike for his uncle, and Claudius" unworthiness to follow his father as the new king. ... Hamlet illustrates the love he has for his deceased father, and then wonders the question "Must I remember?" ... Hamlet begins to ponder the reason that his mother had gone unto Claudius. ... Then Hamlet begins to think more upon the situation between his mother and Claudius. ... Mere weeks earlier, Claudius was her brother in law, and now her husband. ...

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He bluntly lies to his wife that he loves. ... She deeply loves Hamlet and would do anything for him. ... He has the thought of her marrying Claudius so soon after his father's death in his mind. ... She married Claudius so soon after her late husband's death because she is a weak person who needs someone in her life. ... What she doesn't see is that Claudius performs a significant amount of rotten deeds behind her back. ...

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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. Hamlet's soliloquy provides a contrast to the restricted way he must talk to Claudius and the court holding back his true feelings over the situation. ... When Ophelia will reje...

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Hamlet's approach in taking revenge towards Claudius for killing his father was very slow because he pondered a lot. ... Meanwhile, Hamlet's approach in taking revenge at King Claudius is very different from Laertes' approach because Hamlet wasted a lot of time thinking and questioning if he should kill Claudius and when the perfect time came for killing him, he did not take it. ... Hamlet also appeared to act crazy after discovering that his uncle, King Claudius, notoriously killed his father and then married his mother. ... He is rudely telling her ...

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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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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. ... He then tries to instill guilt by telling her that he did love her once. ... He snaps back by saying, "You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it, I loved you not." ... He punctuates this line by saying the very hurtful, heart piercing, "I loved you not". I do not think that he really did not love her. ...

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When Ophelia approached Hamlet again with her claims of love, it is only upon her Polonius's request so that he and King Claudius might spy on him. ... Ophelia's death reminds Hamlet of how much he loves her. ... Hamlet doesn't immediately decide that he no longer loves Ophelia. ... Hamlet's love for Ophelia changes and goes full circle; he loves her, he doubts it, he claims that he doesn't love her, and he realizes that he really does. ... Hamlet doubted her love upon being rejected and ignored from her. ...

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Let love take its course. ... At first Hamlet of course loved Ophelia. On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... With all his "I love you, I cannot believe you lied to me, I loved you" I am not surprised she died. ... Hamlet even treats Polonius' daughter Ophelia rudely, prompting Polonius to believe Hamlet is madly in love with her, though Claudius expects otherwise. ...

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The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Morel, is lonely; and she is lack of love. She puts all her affection to her sons, which the affection is mixed by mother love, spiritual love and sexual love. ... Without well-balanced love between husband and wife, Mrs. ... Hence, the mother love occurs aberrance. ...

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