As a result of this evil, Hamlet suffers greatly when he learns of his mother's rushed marriage: "a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer-married with my uncle, my father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules: within a month, she married. ... According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedipus the king. ... Hamlet displays all these traits: he is extremely sad over the death of hi...

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That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and , for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. ... "A villain kills my father; and , for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven."" ... Despite his redeeming qualities, Hamlet possesses a major character flaw: misogyny. ... In one particular instance, Hamlet is lamenting the marriage of his mother to his dead father's brother. ... Later on, Hamlet confronts his mother tersely. ...

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Both his father's death, and mother's marriage, have mentally affected him, clouding his judgment. ... Possess it merely" (Hamlet. ... Hamlet declares that a beast would have mourned longer than his mother mourned for his father. ... With the death of his beloved father and the betrayal from his mother, one could easily sympathize with Hamlet. ... That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven" (Hamlet. ...

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It was a disastrous time in the prince, Hamlet's life as his father had just passed away, his uncle then took the kingship and wed Hamlet's mother, then the ghost of his deceased father appeared to him with instructions for revenge and, finally, the love of his life was no longer permitted to see the prince by order of the lady's father. ... Hamlet talks to his mother in a clear, truthful and rational manner and even offers to Gertrude: "...It is not madness / That I have utter"d. ... Hamlet makes no attempt here to disguise the fact that he believes that Osric is a member of th...

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Hamlet is tormented by his father's demise, but he is also consumed with rage over his mother's remarriage. ... Hamlet's state of mind is on shaky grounds, is he deeply troubled like his Queen mother thinks, or has he got everyone, including himself, fooled. ... Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes each must avenge a father's violent murder. ... 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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With Gertrude, Hamlet would also like to express his anger towards her, as well as possibly kill her or make her go insane, without arising suspicion in others that he possesses a hostile rational mental state. ... One means of achieving it would be for Hamlet to kill his mother or make her go insane, which he has the license to do thanks to his feigned insanity. ... Also, he needs his mother's love much more than he needs Ophelia's love. ... (The evidence for this arbitrary reliance on his mother's love comes from his father and Claudius both professing of their powerful need f...

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His methodical and logical nature of thinking is exemplified through his "matter of fact" way of explaining death: "Your father lost a father, that father lost". Shakespeare has used the repetition of "father" 3 times for added effect. ... The audience believes that the king does possess human qualities, does feel guilt and remorse. ... He opts for the latter option; contradicting the reasons he gave as to why he did not kill Hamlet himself. The audience infers from this that the true reason why Claudius did not kill Hamlet himself was out of cowardness. ...

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Hamlet is trying to grapple with the death of his father and remarriage of his mother, thereby causing him to use metaphors to present his melancholic state of mind: How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie, tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. ... But two months dead The first soliloquy reveals Hamlet's disgust with the "stale- world and attempts to find the origin of his unhappiness, which he believes is his mother's body and sexuality. ... Hamlet attemp...

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Hamlet himself exists within an environment of misogyny, fueled by this father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the suspicious behavior of his lady Ophelia. Early in the play, we learn that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father - and then remarried his mother far too quickly. For Hamlet, and for the audience, his mother's behavior is coldly disconcerting; she shows no loyalty to her dead husb...

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'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely (1.2.135-37). ... But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.... ... Claudius has also wed Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and queen of Denmark. ... Hamlet is the most prominent vengeful son, but in the course of working out his vengeance, he inadvertently kills Polonius. ... When the players arrive at Elsinore, Hamlet requests the first player to recite a favorite speech about Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, who killed King Priam of Tr...

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The poison with which Claudius kills King Hamlet spreads in a sense throughout the country, until "something is rotten in Denmark", as Marcellus notes (I.4.90). ... Hamlet, later, in his first soliloquy, deplores of the world "things rank and gross in nature possess it merely" (I.2.136). After the death of his father, and quick "two months nay" remarriage of his mother, every aspect of the world seems to be diseased, and is an "unweeded garden that grows to seed" (I.2.136). ...

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In the beginning of the play, Hamlet returns to Denmark after hearing of his father's death only to find his mother already remarried to Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. ... In this play, Claudius not only kills Hamlet's father, but also guilts Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia into trying to drive Hamlet even deeper into madness. ... The one thing that each of these plays written by Shakespeare possess is a villain motivated by greed to do unspeakable evil acts. ...

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