"(1) In these lines Hamlet is asking the biggest existential question of them all, whether to keep living or to kill himself. ... How easy it would be just to kill himself. The biggest problem proposed buy an existentialist is whether to kill themselves or not. ... Later on in a conversation with Polonius Hamlet says, "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life" (II, 2, 214-216). ... He tells Polonius that the only thing he is more willing to part with than him is his very own life. ...

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During their discussing, Gertrude calls for help, Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, who is hidden behind the wall covering in order to listening their conversation, answers, and Hamlet kills Polonius thinking that he is the King. Polonius dies by paying the price of his own trickery. ... (Act III, scene iv, page 137, l.34-35) We can notice that even when Hamlet knows that he has killed Polonius instead of the King, he doesn't feel guilty. ... Claudius realizing that Hamlet is attempting to kill him, sends the Prince to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who carry a letter...

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When King Hamlet was killed by Claudius and he moved in the spot light, Hamlet and his mother's relationship was changed forever. ... Polonius didn't feel Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia were long term. ... Even the attempt to kill Hamlet ended in the death of other people. ... In an attempt to kill Hamlet, Claudius poisons Hamlet's drink while at a gathering towards the end of the play. ... Hamlet and Polonius get into it and the sword fight results in Polonius being cut and dying from the poison on the sword. ...

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Polonius, Ophelia, Laertes, Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Gertrude deaths are all because of hamlets revenge. Hamlet wants to kill his uncle because he killed hamlets father. Hamlets father comes to him in a form of a ghost and explain how claudius killed him. ... Hamlet has many perfect opportunities to kill Claudius but he always counteracts with a doubt or reason not to. ... 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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Hamlet is so troubled with his inability to kill a single man, that he considers suicide, and questions his right to live. ... Still Claudius is unsure of his seat as King, he recognizes he cannot kill Hamlet outright; to do so would incur the wrath of Denmark. ... Polonius and Laertes control Ophelia. ... Hamlet who has every reason to kill the murderer of his father, cannot find the heart to. ... Once Hamlet kills Polonius, he is no longer the grieved party "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (Ivv67). ...

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Hamlet almost immediately interprets the Ghost's vague (perhaps intentionally so) requests for revenge to be a direct request to kill Claudius, and he assures himself that vengeance will soon be dealt to the King. ... Through his self-centered focus on 'righting the wrong' he brought about directly or indirectly just about every death in the story, and even in his final kill, that of Claudius, he considers not anyone but himself. ... Even after the accidental murder of Polonius, he sees not a signpost warning him to turn back before more innocent deaths occurs, but a minor s...

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Hamlet ˜s departure is caused by polonius's death. Hamlet has killed Polunoiu's thinking it was the king, Claudius. Claudius is worried, because Polonius death could have been his death and sends Hamlet to England. ... After telling Horatio abot thsi instance , Hamlet goes on to say, "He that hath killed my king and whored my mother, Popped in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life " ( act 5, 2, 68-72). ... As before he was uncertain weather to kill Claudius or not , but now he is ceratin that it his destiny to revenge his father. ...

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