His feelings change after talking with his father's ghost which tells Hamlet "But know, thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown." After hearing this from his father's ghost he becomes angry even more at his mother, who has married this "serpent" barely a month after her husband's death. Yet, Hamlet feels a little excited knowing that he was right about his father's death, it was on purpose. Horatio asks Hamlet after his visit with the ghost, ""What news, my Lord?" ... After this section, Hamlet comes up with a plan to ...

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After the deaths of Hamlets and Laertes' fathers, both sons had different methods of taking out the action of revenge. ... He wanted Hamlet dead right away and decided to do this by planning a crooked fencing match which would result in Hamlet's death. ... After Laertes discovered that Hamlet was the one who killed his father and after the sudden death of his sister Ophelia, he went crazy with rage and sadness and could not bare to handle anymore bad news. ... Hamlet is saying to Ophelia that he is declaring that there will be no more people getting married be...

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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Shortly after the king's death, Claudius proceeds to marry the widowed queen, Gertrude. ... After Hamlet defeats Laertes in a portion of the match, the King offers a toast to Hamlet saying, "Stay, give me drink. ... Unfortunately, when Hamlet declines, Gertrude takes the drink only to die soon after from the poison. While Claudius intended to secure his position as king, he ended up throwing his kingdom and life into deep turmoil. ... All of these actions back fire completely, resulting in the deaths of many of the main characters....

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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In particular Claudius, who, after murdering his father, and marrying his mother, still abused his power over Hamlet. For example, by using his servants, who were supposedly Hamlet's friends, to spy on Hamlet. ... After avoiding Claudius on numerous occasions, he then spontaneously decides to randomly stab whoever is behind a curtain. ... In Hamlet's case, he exhibits both. ... Although he avenged his father's death, it only cost him his life! ...

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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, women play a major role in the life of the men in the play. ... Since Hamlet was a prince and therefore royalty, there may have been a chance that Ophelia was after his power or the power that he was going to inherit. ... This resulted in Ophelia's eventual madness and her death. ... The fact that Claudius said that the cup was poisoned to his side and not to Gertrude shows that he was not very disappointed of her death. ... Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes, did what the most involved men in her life wanted. ...

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There is a point in this scene when Gertrude thinks her life is in danger of Hamlet and gets frightened, which shows us that she considers him to be mad and harmful. After this scene she becomes aware that Hamlet isn't mad and starts trusting him as opposed to Claudius. ... After the closet scene Gertrude keeps faith to her son and lies to her husband Claudius for Hamlet saying he killed Polonius in his madness: `And in his brainish apprehension Kills the unseen good old man' Then when Hamlet returns back to Elsinore and is arguing with Laertes, Gertrude seems worried about th...

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Later, in the play after Hamlet has gone "mad" Polonius throws an idea to King Claudius and the queen. ... Hamlet's games confuse Ophelia very much, and after her father's death she can't handle it anymore. She takes her life which in turn causes the deaths of many others. ... "By letters congruing to that effect,/ The present death of Hamlet. ... The death of Laertes, Hamlet, King Claudius, the queen, and maybe even Ophelia could've been prevented. ...

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And the reason was none-other-than the remarriage of Gertrude, his mother, to his uncle, Claudius, within a month after King Hamlet's death. ... Hamlet wished to end his own life, but death was "the undiscoverd country, from whose bourn/ No traveler returns." ... Hamlet desired for death in order to be set free of life, but the nature of his dilemma altered, as he spoke with a lucid simplicity. ... Hamlet commented, "[life] will be short. ... Since he was uncertain about neither when he would die nor what he would leave behind after his death, the date of his death simply did not both...

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my life, 1.1.169-171)although a courtier should have gone directly to the king. ... Later they meet near a graveyard and, as the sight of skulls being thrown about by the gravedigger leads Hamlet back into morbid reflections on death and decomposition, but even here Horatio helps him ("Twere to ... consider so... After Ophelia's funereal they talked for a while, Hamlet talks about Claudius and his own order for the execution of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz ( "Why, even [...] go to't", 5.1.48-55). ... With his death, Horatio takes control of his events. Out of all these things it ...

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He marries the Queen to take the throne from Hamlet after the death of his father. ... Claudius shows that he is worried about Hamlet's mental illness, but in reality, he loses his patience with Hamlet and is trying to kill him. ... For example, when Gertrude married Claudius after the death of her husband, Gertrude was afraid to take over the kingdom by herself, so she married her bother-in-law. "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/ The memory be green, and that it us befitted/ To bear our hearts in grief..." (1.2.1-4). ... Overall, Gertrude displays that she is weak becau...

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