After all, if the love between them were weakened, the impact of that kind of love rejection followed by her support of Claudius would be lessened. ... After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved mother loves. Gertrude would also not condemn Hamlet for killing or attempting to kill Claudius if she did not love Claudius. ... Also, he needs his mother's love much more than he needs Ophelia's love. ... (The evidence for this arbitrary reliance on his mother's love comes from his father and Claudius both professing of their powerful need for Gertr...

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Hamlet's true love, Ophelia, worries constantly about Hamlet. ... I loved you not." (III, I, 117-119) His offensive statement destroys Ophelia's belief in his love and she begins to give up on Hamlet. What she didn't know is that Hamlet was truly in love with her. ... The farther Hamlet is from Claudius, the more danger Claudius could be in. ...

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After all, if the love between them were weakened, the impact of that kind of love rejection followed by her support of Claudius would be lessened. ... After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved mother loves. Gertrude would also not condemn Hamlet for killing or attempting to kill Claudius if she did not love Claudius. ... Also, he needs his mother's love much more than he needs Ophelia's love. ... (The evidence for this arbitrary reliance on his mother's love comes from his father and Claudius both professing of their powerful need for Gertr...

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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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At this point Hamlet is certain that Claudius is responsible for his father's murder. ... After Hamlet realizes that Claudius is guilty, he comes across him in the chapel. He is given the perfect opportunity to finally kill Claudius, but turns it down because he does not want to kill Claudius while he is praying. ... Hamlet treated his mother in a rude fashion, because he loved and trusted her, but she married Claudius less than a few months after his father's death. ... However, Ophelia's love for Hamlet caused her to mistake Hamlet's original intention for his distrust an...

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Claudius is at prayer, and Hamlet surely doesn't want to send Claudius to heaven after he is absolved by prayer. ... Both women that are important to him, Ophelia and Gertrude, have turned away his love or betrayed him. ... Claudius brings so much sin into Hamlet's world that Hamlet refuses to allow Claudius to be forgiven for it. ... He is disgusted with Claudius" behaviour. ... He must, and will kill Claudius, the man who murdered his father and who stole the crown and his mother's love. ...

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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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He says goodbye to his sister Opehlia and warns her about falling in love with Hamlet because he thinks that Hamlet is too old for him to truly love her. ... Polonius suspects that Hamlet may be madly in love with Ophelia and that may be the cause of Hamlet's moodiness. ... (After midnight) Summary: Polonius declares, that the prince is mad with love for Ophelia. He shows the king and queen letters and love poems Hamlet has given to Ophelia, and proposes a plan to test his theory. ... Hamlet decides to kill Claudius only when he is sinning. ...

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"I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum." ... This includes Ophelia, the women he loves whom he bitterly rejects when he learns she has betrayed him. ... Claudius: The present King of Denmark, King Claudius took Queen Gertrude whom he loves as his queen and wife, much to the consternation of Hamlet who believes his mother has betrayed him and his father's memory by doing so. Cautious and suspicious, Claudius has courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hamlet's love interest Ophelia spying on Hamlet for him since as he...

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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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Hamlet Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark, son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet. After the late King Hamlets death, Claudius (the late Kings brother) married Queen Gertrude and became the father uncle to Prince Hamlet. After the ghost (King Hamlet) appeared to Prince Hamlet and informed h...

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Hamlet is informed by his father that he need to be avenged by death of Claudius. ... When hamlet catches up to Claudius, he finds Claudius kneeling in prayer, and Hamlet pulls out his sword and gets ready to kill him. ... So Hamlet postpones the killing of Claudius. ... Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that he had in fact always loved Ophelia. ... Claudius dies, and Hamlet die immediately after achieving his revenge. ...

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He verbally abuses her by telling her that she is misguided for the reason that he was never in love with her and that she is a hoer. ... King Claudius has his intellect all crammed with dire ideas. ... King Claudius knows that Queen Gertrude loves her son exceptionally and that he would by no means be able to put Hamlet in prison for his actions. Instead King Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England. ... As it shows King Claudius has no motive for the way he is acting. ...

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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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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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Claudius expressed a reaction of guilt, Hamlet got the answer, that in fact Claudius did kill Old Hamlet. ... It is clear that Polonius makes decisions for his daughter, regardless if she really loves Hamlet or not. ... He does not listen to her and screams harsh words leaving her feeling worthless and embarrassed by telling her "I loved you not" (3.1.83). ... What's worse, she finds out that her dearest father was murdered by the one she loves, Hamlet. ... Her love denied her, her father died and her brother had moved away. ...

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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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Though he originally created the mask to make Claudius believe he is insane, his scheme backfires when everyone except Claudius falls for it. ... Because he began to believe in his own mind that he was mad, he was forced to witness the downfall of himself, and of all those he loved. ... Because she is one of those who believes Hamlet lost his mind, when he does not return her love, she is so incredibly brokenhearted that she kills herself. ... Another characteristic of Hamlet in this play is his delay in killing Claudius. ... So, he tries to find every excuse to avoid killing Claudius; fir...

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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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I believe its both as he is afraid of committing suicide which is a sin and he loves his father dearly so I think he needs a bit of time to heal his wounds - ''His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. ... Saying this, if Hamlet really does have so much love for his father shouldn't he act straight away and seek revenge just like what Fortinbras would do? ... Hamlet is considered as a noble and a much-loved prince by the people of Denmark. ... He is oblivious to Claudius' cunningness. ... He reveals Claudius' plan to kill him. ...

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