Hamlet

The poisoned wine is intended for Hamlet, but his mother - Gertrude - drinks it by mistake.

; Claudius mentions more than one thing. From Act 4 scene 3:

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Clau: Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety

Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve

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Claudius claims there that he's concerned for Hamlet's well being. We know it's a lie, of course, since Claudius has set up the mission to England to kill Hamlet.

Also Act 4 scene 7:

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Clau: Oh, for two special reasons : Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,

But yet to me they're strong; the Queen, his mother

Lives almost by his looks, and for myself,

My virtue or my plague, be it either which,

She is so concleave to my life and soul,

That as the star moves not but in his sphere

I could not but by her; the other motive,

Why to a public count I might not go,

Is the great love the general gender bear him,

Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,

Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone:

Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows,

Too slightly timbered for so loved, armed,

Would have reverted to my bow again,

But not where I have aimed them. ; -------

In talking to Laertes, Claudius says he needs Gertrude's political support, and she dotes on Hamlet. That's true.

Then, the "public count" idea is that Claudius doesn't want to challenge Hamlet before the general public, because he's afraid people, in general, might like Hamlet better than they like him. Politics, in other words. So altogether, Claudius basically mentions two things. The first one is the lie that he has personal affection for Hamlet. The second is true, that he's worried about his political support against Hamlet, and he doesn't want to risk people turning against him in favor of Hamlet.

Of course when Laertes led his mob to storm the castle, that got Claudius thinking about how popular he was, and it obviously didn't look good for him.

Hamlet's father is murdered by Claudius (Hamlet's uncle).

He wants to get at Claudius, who he blames for his father's death. The crowd backing him are shouting "Laertes shall be king", so the idea is that he will replace Claudius, after he kills him to revenge the death of Polonius. But Laertes is far too dimwitted to be king, and Claudius outwits him without difficulty.

I believe he apologizes because he is ultimately responsible for the death of Ophelia and his father Polonius. Also, Hamlet finally sees how similar they are to each other and offers his apology to prevent him from following the same destructive path Hamlet did.

Well, I must first of all say that my statement is of my own interpretation of the story. However, it may be possible that Claudius was planning on killing off Hamlet (or at least spy on him) from the very beginning. By looking at Claudius's personality, namely his willingness to kill for power, it can be implied that Claudius is fearful of loosing his power in the same way. Of all that may pose a threat to Claudius, Hamlet seems to be the most likely threat as he is in direct line to the throne (after all why not kill off the king and become the new king a little ahead of schedule?). So due to Claudius's paranoid nature, it may be possible that he intended to keep Hamlet in Elsinore so that he could plot to get rid of him.

"Hamlet: To kill a king and marry with his brother.

Gertrude: To kill a king?

Hamlet: Ay, lady, that was my word."

He storms out just after the player king is murdered.

There are as many - or as few- revengers in Hamlet as you want there to be.

One could say that Hamlet is seeking vengeance for his father's murder, Laertes is seeking vengeance for his father's murder, and Fortinbras is seeking vengeance for his father's murder - but that is only one way of counting the revengers.

There are more sensible ways of approaching this play.

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Claudius did not choose to punish Hamlet for his crimes for two reasons. One he loved Gertrude, Hamlets mother too much and two, the people loved Hamlet and Claudius feared punishing him would cause a revolt.

hamlet avenged his father by stabbing his uncle who married his fathers wife to get the throne. hamlet did this because his fathers ghost visited and told him that hamlets uncle (his fathers brother) killed him... in the end everyone ended up dying

Hamlet plans to use the actors to prove whether or not Claudius was guilty. This would be achieved by instructing the actors to portray the murder of Gonzago, which would make Claudius feel guilty if he did indeed commit the murder.

hamlet killed king Claudius, Polonius, and laertes. (he technically killed rosencrantz & guildenstern because of a letter telling the king of England to kill them)

The ghost says that he is stuck in purgatory because he did not have a chance to confess before he died. It would have been less cruel to have killed him as he stepped out of the confessional, but give Claudius some credit here--he's not going to kill Hamlet in such a way that Claudius was going to get caught.

Claudius might have chosen a less nasty poison, one supposes. That would have been less cruel.

Hamlet thinks Polonius is Claudius. He says, "Is't not the king?" His mistake is reasonable, since Polonius is hiding behind a curtain in Gertrude's bedroom, not the place where one would suspect men other than her husband.

He doesn't. He jumps in the grave, on top of Ophelia's dead body. On the stage of a theatre like the Globe there would be a trap door and hole in the stage which the actor would jump into. It is usually done that way even today. His reason for doing this is that Laertes had done it first, and Hamlet thought he was showing off.

Wanting to revenge his father, he tries to decide the best course. By making people think he is mad, he casts himself as mostly harmless. But in actuality, he still has the intellect to consider and plan.

He is hiding in the drapes and he will eavesdrop.

Hamlets sarcasm.."a little less kin than kind" the play within the play shows the events of what was really happening in hamlets life. Hamlets sarcasm.."a little less kin than kind" the play within the play shows the events of what was really happening in hamlets life.

Hamlet tells him to send his messengers to see if Polonius is in Heaven, and if he is not there, then he tells him to go see if he's in Hell in person.

He then tells him that Polonius is under the stairwell.

Hamlet will insert some dozen or fourteen lines into the play the Murder of Gonzago to make it seem more like the murder of his father.

Polonius is sure that Hamlet has gone mad with love for Ophelia.

See these lines by Polonius in Act 2 scene 1:

~Polonius: Come, go with me! I will go seek the King;This is the very ecstasy of love,...Ophelia: ...

I did repel his letters, and denied

His access to me.Polonius: That hath made him mad;~

So Polonius thinks Hamlet is suffering from the "ecstasy of love" for Ophelia, which has driven him mad.

Revenge his father? No, that is what King Hamlet asked him to do. King Claudius asks (well, commands) that he stay in Denmark, and later that he go to England to collect an overdue debt from England to Denmark.

The guards are very tense. The first line is someone challenging the guard, when it's supposed to be the other way around. And of course the appearance of the spectral form of the late king might have caught the attention of anyone who wasn't engaged at that stage of the scene.