After seeing the performance Claudius's reaction convinces Hamlet that he is the guilty party that killed his father. ... Hamlet however is unaware that Polonius is hiding in his mother's room and stabs him thinking that he is Claudius. Even after killing Polonius Hamlet continues to verbally bash his mother. ... Claudius and Laertes conspire to kill Hamlet with a poisoned rapier. ... I am poison'd" Hamlet then kills Claudius realizing that the wine had been intended for him. ...

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He uses Polonius as a puppet to find out things about Hamlet. ... In a blind fit of rage Hamlet lets his emotions get the better of him and he accidentally kills Polonius when he was hiding behind the curtains. ... Claudius and Laertes come up with a plan to kill Hamlet. ... They sharpen the sword of Laertes and poison the tip so that he can kill Hamlet. ... Hate filled Hamlet and eventually killed him. ...

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Hamlet's anger also leads him to kill Polonius when he hears him hiding behind a curtain and thinks it is Claudius. If he had been clear-headed he might have looked behind the curtain and seen it was Polonius, which would prevent Hamlet from killing him. ... Hamlet and Laertes plan to fight and kill each other. ... He should have told Laertes how he killed Polonius and why. ... Hamlet further inflames the situation by accidentally killing Polonius. ...

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A funny part of this is that Hamlet says that Polonius has a lack of wit while Hamlet is actually using his own wit to cause trouble. ... Polonius actually thought that Hamlet was mad because his love for Ophelia was rejected. ... Polonius thinks he can mend Hamlets madness by getting Ophelia and Hamlet together. ... There was also a moment with his mother that he just loses his mind and stabs the arras killing Polonius after Polonius made his presence aware to hamlet. ... He showed no remorse when he killed Polonius either. ...

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Some may argue that it is Polonius's fault that he dies, saying that if he would not have been eavesdropping then Hamlet would have never killed him. ... When Hamlet kills Polonius it is one of the few times that he actually does act on impulse. ... But Hamlet does not kill him right away and because of this Polonius gets killed. Polonius never would have been behind the arras if Hamlet would have killed Claudius as soon as he was sure of his guilt. ... When Hamlet kills Polonius a domino effect begins with the deaths of the other characters. ...

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This battle over eternal damnation is seen later, when Hamlet tries to kill Claudius, but he is praying. Hamlet then determines since Claudius is praying, and being forgiven of his sins, he will not spend eternity suffering like his father, if he is killed at that moment. ... In the end, Claudius is killed as "thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane". ... When Hamlet is speaking to the queen in her bedchambers, he accidentally kills Polonius in cold blood. ... Polonius whispers as his last words before being shuffled off this mortal coil. ...

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Hamlet did not want Claudius to go to heaven, so he did not kill him at that time. ... One example of this is the death of Polonius. During Hamlet's conversation with his mother, he was oblivious to the fact that he was being spied on by Polonius. ... Hamlet acts without thinking after hearing these cries and accidently killed Polonius: "How now! ... Hamlet's most important show of action was when he killed Claudius. ...

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By relying on emotion instead of logic, Hamlet kills Polonius instead of Claudius. ... Though he had no reason not to kill Claudius, as he hated Polonius, he nevertheless procrastinates on this task. ... When he does verify that Claudius killed King Hamlet, he only tries to kill him twice: once, when he is praying, Hamlet uses the excuse that he cannot kill a man praying, and the second time, he accidentally killed Polonius instead of Claudius. The only time that Hamlet actually tries to kill his uncle is when he is in the room with his mother. Unfortunately, Polonius is the man behind ...

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Hamlet and Laertes, two of the three main/prominent young men in Hamlet (Fortinbras being the third) are each other's foil characters. ... On the other hand Laertes does not think twice about when and how he will avenge his father Polonius' death by arranging with Claudius to kill Hamlet, even if that requires "cut[ting] his throat i' th' church" (IV, vii, 125), as opposed to Hamlet who couldn't get himself to kill Claudius while he was repenting in church. This shows that most of Hamlet's thoughts and lack of action are controlled by and are a result of his high ...

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Hamlet kill Polonius recklessly, resulting in there having to be more revenge. ... Claudius kills King Hamlet, so Hamlet wants to kill him. ... Laertes wants to kill Hamlet. Hamlet kills Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. ... It was easier for Hamlet to kill Claudius than to expose his crime. ...

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After killing Polonius, Gertrude makes a comment of what a bad deed this was but Hamlet simply says in reply, "A bloody deed - almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother?" ... He barely recognizes the fact that he had just killed Polonius. ... After Ophelia killed herself, and Polonius was stabbed by Hamlet, Laertes had a great motive to get revenge on Hamlet. Hamlet's madness drove Ophelia and Polonius to an unnecessary early death and Laertes to anger. Laertes wants to kill Hamlet, Hamlet wants to kill Claudius, and Claudius wants to kill Hamlet as well. ...

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For example, after Hamlet learns of Claudius" guilt in the death of his father, he decides to kill him. ... " (3:4:89-92) If Hamlet would have killed Claudius at that very moment, his father would be revenged, the internal struggle within his mind would cease, and peace would be brought to Denmark. ... In the literal sense, he travels to England as a result of his exile for the murder of Polonius. ... In the end, Hamlet's tragic flaw brings about not only his own demise, but also the deaths of Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. Had Hamlet ...

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In my paper I will talk about what Hamlet hides. ... He uses this when he kills Polonius. ... He kills Polonius who is obscured by the curtain. ... The only reason he was able to kill him was because he was behind the drapery. ... This question is whether or not to kill the King in the church or to wait until he will go to hell. ...

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This almost suggests that Hamlet does not really want to kill Claudius, but feels obligated to do so. ... In fact, Hamlet reveals to us about his unwillingness to kill Claudius early in the play. ... Hamlet's Sanity Hamlet appears to be insane, after Polonius's death, in act IV scene II. ... His day has been hectic--he finally determined Claudius had killed his father, the chance to kill Claudius confronted him, he comes very close to convincing Gertrude that Claudius killed his father, he accidentally kills Polonius, and finally the ghost of his father visits him. ... The fac...

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When Hamlet found out that Claudius killed his father Hamlet was furious, and got right to work on how to get his fathers revenge. Hamlet went to work by coming up with a plan to act mad so that it would hide the truth from Claudius, which was that Hamlet was going to kill Claudius. Hamlet has no such luck. ... Claudius also has a plan that is to kill hamlet. ... Hamlet fools Ophelia into believing that he is mad by killing Polonius behind a curtain in the Gertrude's room. ...

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Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost and is told that his own brother killed him. ... Hamlet also shows the ability to reason when he has the chance to kill Claudius. ... He was going to kill him. ... He found the letter to the king of England, saying Hamlet should be killed. ... Hamlet had just killed Polonius. ...

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Hamlet then begins to make plots to kill Claudius. ... Hamlet makes a poor decision when he decides to back out to kill Claudius when he is praying for forgiveness. ... Hamlet's poor decision on killing Polonius believing it was Claudius has caused Laertes to lose trust in Hamlet. If Hamlet had the chance to kill Claudius in the church, Polonius would not be dead. ... Hamlet's cowardice to kill his uncle did not succeed but, ruin his relationship with Laertes. ...

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(He stole the letters that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were taking to the King of England, which instructed the king to kill Hamlet. ... He rashly and recklessly murders Polonius. ... Hamlet is now the man that is able to avenge his father's death and kill Claudius. ... Perhaps this is the fuel that actually gives Hamlet the real rage to kill Claudius. ... Hamlet kills the Claudius, finally avenging his father's death! ...

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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 is saying that he will make sure to take revenge towards whoever killed his father. Once Hamlet discovers that his own uncle is the one who killed his father, Hamlet, filled with rage, declares: So, Uncle, there you are. ... Hamlet wants the king dead and he will make sure that he be the one who kills him. Once Laertes discovers from the king that Hamlet is the person who killed his father, Polonius, he stated: I dare damnation, to this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my ...

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Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost and is told that his own brother killed him. ... Hamlet also shows the ability to reason when he has the chance to kill Claudius. ... He was going to kill him. ... He found the letter to the king of England, saying Hamlet should be killed. ... Hamlet had just killed Polonius. ...

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We already learned from Polonius's description of Hamlet's behavior how not to define. ... Although Shakespeare's description on being human takes a whole play, he does a little better than Polonius. ... Hamlet also deviates from God's plan when he doesn't kill Claudius because he may send him to Heaven. He waits to kill and says, "Then trip him, that his hells may kick at Heaven/And that his soul may be as damned and black/As Hell, whereto it goes" (III, iii). ... It is only after getting in touch with his humanness, humbling himself, and seeking God's will can H...

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The protagonist of the play, Hamlet, suffers the fate of death by poison. ... When Hamlet is cut by it, his end begins. ... Her madness stems from the death of her father, killed by Hamlet (accidentally, as fate would have it). ... When Hamlet kills Polonius, Laertes exacts revenge on him using the tip of the poisoned sword. ... Most importantly, Hamlet intends to kill Claudius for the murder of his father, Hamlet. ...

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They are both trying to kill a person who acquired a position of power. Claudius killed Hamlet's father in order to gain control of Denmark and Commodus became the new emperor of Rome by killing his father. ... Hamlet wants to kill Claudius to avenge his father's death, and Maximus, who refused to swear his allegiance with the new emperor, wants to kill Commodus for executing his family. ... Since Claudius killed Hamlet's father for power and Commodus killed his father to prevent a republic of Rome from surfacing, both of the antagonists can be seen as sources of corruption in t...

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He knew that if he killed himself, he would not be accepting into heaven. ... When Claudius confesses having killed his brother, Hamlet had all the proof he needed to confirm what the ghost had told him. ... He realized that he had to kill Claudius when he was committing a sin so that he would go to hell and be punished for his sins. This is an important detail that Shakespeare included in order for Hamlet to not kill Claudius right away. ... Even so, Hamlet got his revenge in the end, even if it cost him his life, as well as that of Polonius, Ophelia, Laertes and Gertrude. ...

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