(Act 1, Scene 3 lines 77 - 81) Climaxing his rather long speech, this change of tone can only be taken ironically. ... (Act 1, Scene 3 lines 115 & 116) Through the play Polonius hides behind his mask appearing to be honest loving parent. ... This shows his trust and caring for his subjects in front of the council, winning even more consent from the council: "We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell." (Act 1, Scene 2 line 41) Claudius increases his appearance of an honest and honorable man, in front of the council by showing his respect for Polonius. ... (Act 1, Scene 2 lines 47 - 50) This c...

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"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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He has to put on a play in front of Claudius and see what his reaction to the play is. ... (Lines 48-50, Act 4 Scene 4). ... But seeing Fortinbras' army in front of him, he criticises his delay in revenging his father's death. ... In one of Hamlet's soliloquies on page 169, lines 32 - 48, he berates himself. ... ''He is justly served/It us a poison tempered by himself/Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet'' (Lines 307-309, Act 5 scene 2). ...

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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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Another dilemma is presented in the "to be or not to be- soliloquy from Act 3, Scene 1, which is done in front of a mirror. ... Previously, Polonius has read Hamlet's letter to Ophelia in front of Claudius and Gertrude, and Hamlet says that he loved Ophelia once (2.2, 119). ... Now the audience can fully understand Hamlet's lines: "The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king- (2.2.605-606). ...

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These lines of discontinuity have been drawn in the sand. ... It is also conceivable that Shakespeare acted as a front-man for the Oxford author in those early London years as argued in the "Who Was Shakespeare" document, and emphasized in the "The case for Edward de Vere" segment of the "Beginner's Guide;" with the excerpt six-line pentameter stanzas in Shakespeare's 1593 Venus and Adonis play where he acknowledge his influence of early poetry of Edward de Vere as "first heir of my invention." ... I disagree with the Shakespeare doubters in the "Stanford University News Service in ...

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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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Throughout the play, he acts upset in front of Hamlet, because of King Hamlet's death, while in reality he is the one who killed him for his own selfish reasons. ... " - Claudius, Act 4, Scene 1, lines 41-45. ...

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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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As we all know, the play Hamlet is essentially about life and death. We can see this through the character Hamlet. Hamlet's character is not one dimensional; there are numerous sides to his personality. We can tell this by the way his inclination differs all through the play. Just in the monologues,...

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The character of Claudius is perhaps the most complex in the play and therefore is open to wide interpretation. Shakespeare ultimately presents Claudius as a "smiling damned villain" who rarely is what he appears to be. The most potent example of this occurs in act 1 scene 2 when Claudius first spea...

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