In Hamlet, he first approaches her after Laertes leaves. ... After Hamlet's father died, his uncle Claudius, assumed the role of parent. ... After the play, put on by Hamlet, Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England. ... Instead of talking to Hamlet or trying to ameliorate the situation, he lied his way to his own death. ... The queen refers to Hamlet as mad, after the killing of Polonius. ...
Life would be much easier to figure out if human beings were so definitely good or bad, but we are not. ... Hamlet then becomes a story immersed in the positive and negative qualities of character and the ambiguity of life. ... After his encounter with the ghost we are given a Hamlet with a horrible mission, to murder. ... The moral fiber of Hamlet is first questioned in Act Three when Ophelia comes in after Hamlet's soliloquy in Scene One. ... (3.1.113-118) After Ophelia's death Hamlet proclaims that he loved her always, making what he tells her in this scene a blatant lie....
After being asked by his father's ghost to avenge his death, Hamlet decides to put on an antic disposition. Certain questions arise after this. ... In order to put on an antic disposition," (Shakespeare 1625) Hamlet's decision to act mad seems a bit strange after reading Hamlet and seeing how it ended. ... Gertrude believes it was her hasty marriage and his father's death that led Hamlet to be mad. ... Hamlet ended up writing letters for the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. ...
Quickly after Laertes takes his leave to France, Polonius warns Ophelia against Hamlet's amorous intentions with her. ... Ophelia does not even realize that her father and her brother destroyed the one positive force for making life worthwhile. ... (II, i, 85-94) However, after Hamlet held Ophelia by the wrists, she is left sobbing, confused by everything. ... As Gertrude hastily marries Claudius after her husband's death, Hamlet states that Gertrude shouldn't feel any sexual desires, proclaiming: "You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood i...
Nevertheless, it is done as a gesture of love, after a parent's suspicion of a problem is confirmed. ... Only one month after his father was murdered, Gertrude (Hamlet's mother) married his Uncle Claudius, leaving Hamlet feeling betrayed and depressed. ... After learning that his mother remarried with "most wicked speed"(p.31: 161), Hamlet curses the law against "self-slaughter"(p.29: 136) and "all the uses of this world" (p.29: 138) seem to have no meaning. ... Hamlet's decision to act "mad" drives him into insanity. ... Consequently, this outburst led to his death as well as o...
