"In few, Ophelia, do not believe his vows, for they are brokers from this time forth have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet" (Act 1 Scene 3, Lines 135-144). ... He would rather have King Claudius like him than his own daughter, so he makes her read a love letter from Hamlet in front of the whole court. "To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautifies Ophelia Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love" (Act 2 Scene 2, Lines 117-127). ... I loved you not" (Act 3 Scene ...

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Hamlet reveals more of his love for his father and disapproval of his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius in his lines to Gertrude, "See what a grace was seated on his brow,/ Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself" ( 3,4. 65-66). ... These lines just reinstate all that Hamlet believes. ...

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In act I, scene ii, Hamlet's disgust with his mother's incestuous relationship and pain over his father's death is no more clear then in the lines of his speech, "But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was, to this / Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / visit her face too roughly. ... Even though this spirit is right in front of him and has done nothing to either Horatio or the other men who have seen him, Hamlet is still unable to automatically assume that this spirit is a good spirit...

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In Act 4, Scene 5, Lines 29-32 she is conversing with the queen and when asked about her father she starts to sing "He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone." Later on in the same scene she's talking to the King and Queen and she starts to sing about inappropriate topics in front of everyone. ...

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After this Hamlet goes to his mother's bedroom and proceeds to cast blame on her for what has transpired with the following lines "Mother, you have my father much offended", "Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue". ... The tragedy in this being that even though he has killed an innocent man in front of his own mother Hamlet feels he has to make sure that she owns up to her part in the scheme of things. ...

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Personally I do not believe anyone of his portrayed age would have been placed as a guard outside the front gates of the castle. ... With the exception of Marcellus, everyone delivered their assigned lines marvellously. ...

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