After a brief run-in with Claudius and Gertrude, Ophelia is found dead in the river. ... As confusion pertaining to reality and appearance contributed to the death of Ophelia, it prolonged the life of Claudius, as he appears to be repenting for his brother's murder. ... Claudius admits, "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't- A brother's murder. ... Claudius is not the noble brother of a fallen king who claimed the throne to save the kingdom, as his subjects believe he is. ... While still appearing mournful, C...

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Claudius, the brother of Old King Hamlet is now the King and husband of Gertrude. ... As well, her brother Laertes agrees with what their father is saying. ... She says goodbye to her brother for the last time, leaving him filled with rage and grief. A short while after, Ophelia is found dead in a river, having drown that afternoon. ... Her love denied her, her father died and her brother had moved away. ...

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For example, in Act three, Claudius regretted what he had done in the past, "O, my offense is rank, My stronger guilt defeats my string intent, What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood? ... When Claudius was praying, Hamlet entered and found out the chance that could kill Claudius. ... Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum- (5,1,285-287). ... Laertes, who was son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia, sought to avenge their deaths on Hamlet. ... When he came back, he found out his father had been killed by Hamlet...

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After the late King Hamlets death, Claudius (the late Kings brother) married Queen Gertrude and became the father uncle to Prince Hamlet. ... First, the King would die of poison by his brother. Then after the brother became King, he would marry the Queen (his sister-in-law). ... Little do they know, Hamlet has just found out that his father was really murdered by their new King. ...

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As a result, Claudius was not able to stay for the entire play because his conscience is full of guilt due to his evil actions towards his own brother. ... Ophelia went absolutely mad because her father is now dead and Hamlet is the murderer, so now Ophelia knows that her brother is going to come and kill Hamlet, the person she loves and cares about most, then what is she going to do. ... Little do they know Hamlet has just found out that his father was really murdered by their new King. ... Hamlet is mad because someone murdered his father, Ophelia is mad because Hamlet kills her fat...

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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. ... Later, Claudius is seen giving a speech, acting as if he feels sorrow and remorse over the death of his brother, and former king, Hamlet. It is his doing to deceive the people, and fool them into thinking that he actually feels remorse over his brother's death. ...

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Claudius confesses that his fratricide parallels the murder of Abel: O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder (3.3.36-38). ... Thus King Hamlet, "by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch'd" (1.5.74-75). ... Laertes, Polonius's son and Ophelia's brother, thus has a double motive for revenge against Hamlet, an opportunity he accepts with relish. ... Voltimand, an ambassador of Norway, tells Claudius that Fortinbras's uncle, the acting king of Norway, has suppressed H...

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Hamlet was able to pull himself together and overcome the idea that his father has just died and his dead father's brother moves in to take over. ... If my father died and his brother, his own blood showed a great deal of disrespect and pulled something like that, I would probably make sure he was just as deep in the ground as my dad. ... I believe when Hamlet became aware of Claudius" deceitful intentions that he began to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and found out, truly what kind of person his mother's husband was. ...

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She has found a new husband, so that might mean she is moving on to better things in life other than Hamlet. ... Hamlet states, " Would have mourn"d longer - married with my uncle/ My father's brother" (I.ii.151-152). ... The fact that she married her brother-in-law shows incest already. ...

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His father's own brother murdered him in his sleep then married his queen. .The ghost tells Hamlet to seek revenge but not to hold a grudge against his mother. ... King Claudius also uses this ironic chance to manipulate Laertes when it is found out that Hamlet in fact killed his father. ...

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His wife is nowhere to be found, so as a single father he has responsibility at home, and in the court of Denmark as a high-ranking official. ... Laertes was the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia, who was dating Hamlet. ...

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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 ). ... If hamlet did not have to avenge his father murder he would have killed himself after he found out Ophelia died. ...

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Good literature is considered not an escape from reality , but a plunge into a deeper reality, where universal truth's are glimpsed. This statement is true to a high degree for both, The Stone Angel , by Margaret Laurence and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The protagonists, Hagar in The Stone Ange...

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They carried charms and mascots, found horror in spilling salt and walking under ladders, and dreaded the thirteenth of Friday (May 35-38). ... Prospero forgives his brother, Antonio for the terrible wrong he has don and no traces of anger or resentment linger. ...

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King Hamlet tells his son he has been murdered by his brother Claudius, "cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head" and is now condemned to purgatory. ... This is too late and too messy an act of vengeance to provide the sense of relief found in most revenge tragedies, plus, Hamlet's killing of Claudius happens more by chance than as a direct result of any plot or plan of his own. ...

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In order to characterize Antigone as a heroine , it is important to study Antigone's early childhood, which displays the origins of the characteristics found in her that make her a feminist. ... When the king denies her brother a proper burial and makes it illegal for anyone to bury him in Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone decides it is up to her to take justice into her own hands and give him a proper burial. ...

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When he found the letter sent from the king on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ordering his death, he changed it so Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were the ones that were to be killed: "I sat me down,/ Devised a new commission, wrote it fair-/ I once did hold it, as our statists do,/ A baseness to write fair and labour'd much/ How to forget that learning,"(V,ii,33-37). ... Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum. ...

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