The tragic hero's character illustrates violent outbursts, all the while attaining the love of his audience. ... Hamlet believed she has degraded herself by marrying Claudius. ... Hamlet in his supposed insanity becomes very offensive to Claudius. ... The Prince's disbelief that his mother might have loved King Hamlet distresses him. ... The prince loved to play with words and make people believe whatever they wanted to believe about himself. ...

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When asked by King Claudius why his nephew seems to display "turbulent and dangerous lunacy," Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern reply, "He does confess he feels himself distracted; but from what cause he will by no means speak. ... Hamlet can no longer feel love and for that reason he is no longer able to receive love. ... Her father now lays slain by her former love's own hand, sealing an end to their love forever. ... The callous way King Claudius dismisses Hamlet's grief as childish is astonishing and sickening. ... How easily the pious King Claudius dismisses the death of his broth...

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Hamlet attempts to show loyalty to his mother by obeying everything she asks and nothing that Claudius asks. However, Hamlet loses his loyalty when his mother refers to Claudius as Hamlet's father. ... Hamlet suggests that by calling Claudius his father, Gertrude is offending his true father, King Hamlet. ... When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to be with his love. ... His conduct does not contradict what he says when he sees her funeral, "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum" - [Act ...

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Hamlet's madness can be reviled as the provenance of Ophelia's death, or pitied as he does confess to having, "loved Ophelia"[V.i.266] at her grave. ... Gertrude plays a major role in the origin of Hamlet's madness, as without her Claudius would have less motivation for murdering his brother. This becomes the root of Hamlet's quest for revenge, and the hatred he holds towards Claudius and Gertrude, as he tries to save her from "things rank and gross in nature" [I.ii.135-136] and the damnation he believes she will unwittingly come to. ... Hamlet harbours intense hatred towar...

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He captured the human essence: what it is to love, to hate, to feel. ... The death of Hamlet's father results in his goal to have revenge on Claudius, and as the plot unfolds, innocent bystanders die, such as Ophelia and Polonius. ... Feste the clown, in particular, promotes this theme in his songs: "What is love? ... Love triangles are also included with the theme of love. Again, Twelfth Night is a classic example of a love triangle situation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School