Claudius, the king is Hamlet's major antagonist. He is a shrewd, lustful, conniving king who contrasts sharply with the other male characters in the play. Whereas most of the other important men in Hamlet are preoccupied with ideas of justice, revenge, and moral balance, Claudius is bent upon maintaining his own power. The old King Hamlet was apparently a stern warrior, but Claudius is a corrupt politician whose main weapon is his ability to manipulate others through his skillful use of language. Claudius's speech is compared to poison being poured in the ear-the method he used to murder Hamlet's father. Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of the king. As the play progresses, Claudius's mounting fear of Hamlet's insanity leads him to ever greater self-preoccupation; when Gertrude tells him that Hamlet has killed Polonius, Claudius does not remark that Gertrude might have been in danger, but only that he would have been in danger had he been in the room. He tells Laertes the same thing as he attempts to soothe the young man's anger after his father's death. Claudius is ultimately too crafty for his own good. In Act V, scene ii, rather than allowing Laertes only two methods of killing Hamlet, the sharpened sword and the poison on the blade, Claudius insists on a third, the poisoned goblet. When Gertrude inadvertently drinks the poison and dies, Hamlet is at last able to bring himself to kill Claudius, and the king is felled by his own cowardly
Hey, give things their names. The protagonist is Hamlet, which means the antagonist is Claudius. Claudius tries to stop Hamlet's plans by sending him to England with orders that he should be secretly murdered there.
the play is called Hamlet and was writing by William Shakespeare.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
Shakespeare did not have a middle name. When you translate it from Latin it is William Shakespeare.
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There is no such thing as a short story called Hamlet. There is a play by this name, but plays are not the same thing as short stories.
Hamlet
He's the antagonist.
Lester Hamlet's birth name is Lester Hamlet Vieira.
"Hamlet" is a name.
the play is called Hamlet and was writing by William Shakespeare.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
Claudius is the antagonist, which is not the same thing as a rival. A rival is someone who wants the same thing as you want, when only one of you can have it. Hamlet does not want anything which only one person can have except perhaps the love of Ophelia, for which he has no competition.
A common name for an evil person is a villain or antagonist.
It is called "The Murder of Gonzago". But Hamlet gives it a new name, "The Mousetrap", because he intends to trap Claudius with it.
The Mousetrap.
A hamlet is an old name for a small village. It is also the name of a cigar and a play.
Yes, Hamlet is the surname of the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's tragedy, which is also named Hamlet.
Gertrude is the name of Hamlet's mother in Hamlet.
The antagonist is a kid name Hamilton Knapp