Hamlet

Hamlet wonders if anyone will still love him after he has died right after he does his speech to Yorick's skull and ponders what happens after death. "Hamlet" is a play by William Shakespeare.

Indeed! Ophelia is being given a shortened funeral service out of suspicion that she killed herself. Someone who kills herself died in a state of sin, since suicide is a sin and there was no opportunity to be forgiven, and so she really shouldn't even be buried on holy ground. Someone's pulled some strings behind the scenes, so the priest is compromising by giving her a lackluster funeral. Laertes is upset at this disrespect toward his sister, just as he was upset that his father wasn't mourned with more pomp.

The ghost charges Hamlet to perform a three-part task. He is asked to: 1. Revenge the murder of his father. 2. Hamlet is also not to contrive against his mother but to leave her to heaven and her own conscience. 3. Don't go insane during the task

everyone was responsible for their own death...

Hamlet delays his desicions because he is simply an indescisive person. Hamlet is trying to choose between his education, what he knows, and the warlike royal traditions, the evil aspects of avenging his father. He is obviously depressed and doesnt like the idea of murdering King Claudius, because as a Christian, murder is morally wrong. He wants to make sure Claudius is the right man to be punished and the preparations for the play within the play are even more delayed because of hamlets Antic disposition.

He appears three times, in four different scenes. First he appears to Marcellus, Bernardo and Horatio in Act one Scene 1. He later appears to them with Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 4. Hamlet follows the ghost offstage then reappears chasing him in Act 1 Scene 5. The two scenes are part of the same appearance. Finally, the ghost appears briefly in the closet scene, Act 3 Scene 4.

On the contrary, he says he will speak daggers to her but not use them.

Yes, she tells him (somewhat reluctantly) that Hamlet has "made tenders of his affection" to her in Act 1 Scene 3. In Act 2 scene 1 she tells him that Hamlet has appeared in her bedroom half undressed and has stared at her very intently in a weird way.

Good Hamlet cast thy nighted colour off and look like a friend upon Denmark. Do not forever with thy veiled lids seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.

Which one might paraphrase as:

My dear Hamlet, stop wearing these black clothes, and be friendly to the king. You can't spend your whole life with your eyes to the ground remembering your noble father. It happens all the time, what lives must die eventually, passing to eternity.

Yes, lots. It starts at about line 10 of the first scene when Barnardo asks, "Have you had aquiet guard" and Francisco replies "Not a mouse stirring". It ends around line 400 of the last scene when Fortinbras says, "and for his passage the soldiers' music and the rite of war speak loudly for him."

Horatio didn't die in Hamlet.

The following is from Wikipedia (search was for Hamlet with Horatio):

Horatio is present through most of the major scenes of the play, but Hamlet is usually the only person to acknowledge that he is present; when other characters address him, they are almost always telling him to leave. He is often in scenes that are usually remembered as soliloquies, such as Hamlet's famous scene with the skull of Yorick. Horatio is also present during the mousetrap play, the discovery of Ophelia's madness (though the role of an anonymous gentleman-courtier has been substituted in this scene), Hamlet's display at Ophelia's grave, and the all-important final scene. He is the only major main character to survive all the way to the end of the play.

In performance, the part of Horatio is the only major part that can't be doubled, i.e. that can't be played by an actor who also plays another character, since he is present in scenes involving nearly every character.

Hamlet's friend Horatio was most loyal to him. Furthermore, in Act 1, scene 5, Hamlet makes Horatio and Marcellus swear loyalty to him and to never reveal what they have witnessed in the woods and Hamlet's interaction with his father's ghost.

Hamlet is mad at Gertrude for happily marrying so soon and to he's Uncle of all people. And as for Claudius, to take the place of Hamlet's father was a villain of a decision. Most of the madness is shown after the Ghost appears and tells what has happened in the past. Revenge for what has happened---Father's brother poisoned me while sleeping in the orchard. Remember me. Act 1, scene 5.

There are loads of them everywhere. For example, when he is talking about Yorick's skull, he says to the skull: "Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her--let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." Talking to inanimate objects (or absent people or abstract concepts) is called apostrophe.

It means that those who have great power (whether politicians, religious people or similar) are extra dangerous if they become corrupt or insane, because their influence will have greater consequences for the people around them. Because of this, they need to be watched with extra care.

The tragedy of Hamlet has been around since what is believed to be about 1599. So exactly why has this play been around for so long? Perhaps the most famous quotation comes from the existential dilemma that causes Hamlet to question whether he should continue living or just quit? Put into Shakespeare's brilliant language, Hamlet says, "To be or not to be, that is the question."(Shakespeare). As Hamlet is having trouble in life, he is able to show the voice of a problem that still confronts a large amount of people today. Other than the ever so popular quote, Hamlet really grabs the audience into the play. With ghosts, betrayal, madness, murder, and the famous bloodbath that takes place in the end, Hamlet would even be a major hit in Hollywood today. Yet another reason Hamlet remains around today, is that it brings up so many questions that are still debated today. For example, "To be or not to be, that is the question."(Shakespeare). Well we know the question but what is the answer. Although the book can hint at what the answer is believed to be, it is truly up to the audience to decide for themselves. Furthermore, the tragic play brings about questions of religion, philosophical issues, political issues, psychoanalytical issues, and also feminist issues.

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 machination.

Addition: Act 5, Scene II:

"HAMLET

The point!--envenom'd too!

Then, venom, to thy work.

Stabs KING CLAUDIUS

All

Treason! treason!

KING CLAUDIUS

O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.

HAMLET

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,

Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?

Follow my mother.

KING CLAUDIUS dies"

Hamlet is talking to the Ghost, which Gertrude can't see, which looks bizarre to her. For the first time, Gertrude sees Hamlet as seriously mentally ill, not just disturbed. Ironically, it's Gertrude whose perceptions are faulty in this scene.

No not at all. He had to figure out a way to prove his mother and uncle murdered his father, to not let them know he knew, and to show them for what they were. The fact he played insane was his method to do this. He lets on through the play he is planning his moves. When he has the play staged telling the story this is very brave of him because to some extent he is tipping his hand. Behind the scenes they are plotting his death and he knows this when he goes into the duel.

"This" ghost? What ghost?

It's called The Murder of Gonzago, but when asked, Hamlet calls it The Mousetrap.