Hamlet

Mostly it's not so much of a discussion as Hamlet berating her. She thinks that she is going to give him heck for disturbing Claudius, but it soon becomes apparent that the shoe is on the other foot. He goes off into a long rant in which he abuses Claudius to her, and blames her for having anything to do with him. But she does not get angry with him, probably because she is digesting his remark "Almost as bad, dear mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother." At first she demands to know what he is talking about, but from his abuse of Claudius, she figures it out, and makes the connection with the Mousetrap play. She begins to suspect that Hamlet may be right about Claudius murdering Hamlet Senior.

Then the ghost of his father appears to Hamlet, and Hamlet's rant is interrupted. Thereafter it is more like a discussion than a dressing down. The following topics are discussed:

1. Whether Hamlet is crazy.

2. Whether Gertrude should suspend conjugal relations with Claudius.

3. Hamlet's imminent trip to England.

4. What Hamlet is going to do with the corpse of Polonius.

They want him to stop. They are thinking about how happy their marital bliss will be and he is going all Gothic. Gertrude tries to gently persuade him to cheer up, as does Claudius, although his argument is a little more forceful. But basically they both tell him to get over it. People die; that is their nature. You have to just accept that and move on.

Act 2 of Hamlet tells us that Hamlet is acting crazy like he said he would, that his old school chums Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent for to spy on him to see if he's crazy, some actors have shown up and Hamlet thinks about using them to test whether the Ghost was telling him the truth. Also, if we went straight from Act 1 to Act 3 someone would think we couldn't count.

He dies shortly thereafter. But before dying, he prevents Horatio from attempting to commit suicide just to show support.

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to spy on Hamlet and send Hamlet to England, also ordered them to give the notes to the king of England and ask the king of England to kill Hamlet immediately

They are off to fight and possibly die in a totally pointless war against Poland.

The ghost might repressent the feeling of shame and betray that the old King Hamlet, h and his son feels. The queen can not see the ghost because she doesnt feel guilt, she doesnt think it was wrong to marry the kings brother 2 months after his death, and because everyone else can see the ghost they understand what is wrong with her actions where as she doesnt.

Shakespeare is believed to have collaborated on some of his plays. He may have collaborated with Greene on early plays like Titus Andronicus, or with Fletcher on later plays such as Pericles or Henry VIII. The play The Two Noble Kinsmen is explicitly said to have been a collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher.

Although Shakespeare apparently did write most of his plays on his own, he did not invent the stories of most of them (The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream are exceptions). He got them from older plays (Hamlet), poems (Romeo and Juliet), Italian Stories (Othello), Roman Plays (The Comedy of Errors), and history books like Holinshed's Chronicles (Henry VI) and Plutarch's Lives (Julius Caesar). Although he did not originate the stories, he used his genius to put them into unforgettable dramatic form.

As for the suggestion that Shakespeare was a front man for some mysterious ghost writer like Bacon or Oxford, there is no evidence at all that such a thing happened, and considerable evidence that Shakespeare the actor and man from Stratford did in fact write at least part of the plays attributed to him.

"Who's there?"

"Nay, answer me; stand and unfold yourself"

The symbolic reasoning for the first lines of Hamlet being "Who's there?" points to the constant themes found throughout the play of hypocrites, spying, fear of the unknown and hysteria.

Hamlet love for his father plays a main part in his downfall. he struggles to come to terms with his fathers death and when he see's him he promises to avenge his murder. he does so privately because he can not trust anyone. because of this he is slowly driven to insanity.

to show the importance of the actions

usually it uses actions more than speech just like the play of hamlet it consists of a dumb show

It is, perhaps less of a theory of acting as a set of observations on the practice of the art. However at its root is the notion that the purpose of playing is "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature." Actors who do not seem natural in their acting are not doing it right, and the most grievous fault that Hamlet finds in actors is overdoing it, ("overdone" is a word he uses three times in the speech) bellowing and strutting, sawing the air with their hands and generally out-Heroding Herod. He also warns about the opposite fault, being too tame, but he is less concerned with that problem.

Madness as in crazy:

hearing voices

doing what those voices tell you

hurting yourself intentionally without any idea you've done it

seeing things no one else sees

Madness as in the emotion:

eye brows go down

you feel like you want to punch someone in the face

grind your teeth

get violent

anger derives from sadness. it's a cover up.

shaking legs

everyone is different

The incident in which Hamlet gets off the ship to England plays an important role in changing the entire plot. As he was being "escorted" to England by Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, he switches the letter that the King had given with the one he writes. The original message that the King had wanted to pass on contained an order to kill Hamlet in England. However, Hamlet switches the letter with a new one which orders for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to be executed.

After this, a pirate ship attacks the ship that Hamlet was on. We are not given much detail on such an occurrence but we find out that Hamlet got onto the pirate's ship as the pirates were attacking the ship that was supposed to take Hamlet to England.

Shakespeare does this in order to bring Hamlet back to Denmark and resume the plot. Although, the literary merit behind such a plot manipulation is widely debated as being either acceptable or flagrantly unacceptable.

Horatio is a fellow student of Hamlet's who clearly loves him. Laertes is a Dane of about Hamlet's age, although of less exalted birth. Hamlet respects him and calls him "a most noble youth", while Laertes says of Hamlet's apology to him, "I am satisfied in nature" although it is difficult to believe anything he says at this stage. Fortinbras is probably as close to a peer as Hamlet has in the play, and he says "he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal". While we do not know what Fortinbras's basis was for such a statement it surely confirms that Fortinbras respected Hamlet.

Hamlet is a world famous tradey written by William Shakespeare. Basicly, the story starts with Hamlet in greiving for his dead dad, yet everyone else is happy cause his mum just married his unkle that is now king. Hamlet dad`s ghost comes back and tells Hamlet, his unkle posined him to become king. Hamlet is unsure so he pertends to be mad to discover the truth about his fathers death, Hamlet also has actors perform a play were someone gets murdered in the same way the ghost said he died. During the play Hamlets unkle runs out this proves his guilt. So Hamlet wants to kill him. First he goes to his mother basicly saying "how could you marry him? did you know?" then there is a russelling behind the curtain Hamlet stabs it convinced its his Unkle but he just killed his girlfriends dad, his Unkle says that Hamlet has gone mad and sends him away. On Hamlets way he is saved and comes back to find that his girlfriend in depression for her dad killed herself. Her brother is angrey orders Hamlet to a fenching match to the death. Hamlets unkle convinces Hamlets girlfriend`s brother to possin the tip of the sword and to possin Hamlets drink. When the fencing match is going on Hamlets mum accidently drank from Hamlet`s cup, the fighters switch swords and both Hamlet and his oponat are posined with battle cuts, and in Hamlets last breath he kill his unkle. Hamlet dies in his best friends arms.

He says, "I lack advancement." He doesn't really mean it though; he is playing with them.

Hamlet was her boyfriend. Polonius was her father. Laertes was her brother. Claudius was her father's employer and her boyfriend's father. Gertrude seems to have been a bit of a surrogate mother to Ophelia.

Hamlets said in his last words "but i do prophesy the election lights on Fortinbras, he has my dying voice." so that means Fortinbras was named.

Hamlet is under a lot of pressure to hide his emotions and put on an act for people. Ophelia pushes his buttons in such a way that he explodes and all of that emotion is set loose, causing him to speak to her in a vulgar manner. This scene was put in the play to show how well Hamlet can hide his true feelings, but also illustrate that it is a matter of time until he snaps.

He stabs with a rapier through a tapestry. Hamlet, like many nobles, went around with a sword at all times. He hears Polonius, pretends to think he's a rat but really thinks he's the king, and stabs at the source of the noise, getting in a lucky blind hit and killing him almost instantaneously.

Hamlet knew it showed the poisoning of a person in the same way the Ghost said his father was killed. Hamlet hopes Claudius will have a strong reaction to seeing that, which will prove Claudius's guilt.

Gertrude accidentally drinks from the poisoned cup, which Polonius had intended for Hamlet to drink from during his duel with Laertes.

(In some productions, Gertrude knows that the cup is poisoned and drinks it anyway, to atone for her involvement in her husband's murder, or to save her son's life, or both.)

William Shakespeare