Hamlet

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.

He has just seen Fortinbras leading an army to fight against the Poles. He has been told that the piece of land they are fighting over is not big enough to build a graveyard to bury the men who will die in the battle. Yet away they go "to their graves like beds." They aren't arguing with themselves about the rightness or logic of what they do. It makes no sense but they are doing it anyway. So why, Hamlet asks himself, do I keep asking myself to justify, to make sense of this act of revenge which is so much more justifiable than this insane military expedition?

Because hamlet struggles with his ability to see both sides of every issue and with his inability to kill the new King, so Hamlet wishes he was of a more fiery personality and then he would be able to just make a decision and kill the King (that would be his bloody thought)

Hamlet's father was king of Denmark before he died. Hamlet's uncle Claudius stepped in and married Hamlet's mother and became the De facto king, cutting out Hamlets rightful ascension to the throne. Hamlet had plenty of reason and motive to want Claudius dead, but to make things worse the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and informs him that it was Claudius who killed the king. Even though Hamlet is brought to see the ghost by his friend Horatio and two others who have also seen the ghost, it is, after all, a ghost story and Hamlet is rightfully wary of the information he received from a ghost. Swearing his friends to secrecy, he sets about investigating the truth in an attempt to prove his fathers murder before granting the command of his fathers ghost to exact revenge. Hamlet wants Claudius dead but wants him dead for the right reason and not blind ambition. He must feign madness and create distance between the ones he loves in order to accomplish his goals and increasingly his inability to make a decision and act upon it brings about intrigue and murder, and more murder, ending in a tragic blood bath where few survive. Hamlet could not decide whether it was right and just to kill Claudius and this indecision cost him the loss of the woman he loved, the loss of her father, the loss of her cousin, the loss of Hamlets mother and finally after discovering that he himself is dying from a poisoned tipped sword and that it was Claudius who commanded Tybalt to poison the sword Hamlet kills Claudius. People will say that Hamlet killed Claudius because his father the ghost told him to, but in truth, Hamlet killed Claudius with his last dying breath because it was Claudius that killed Hamlet. Sometimes it is better to make the wrong decision than make no decision at all.