Hamlet

HAMLET learns about the ghost from horatio and marcellus

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness-from overwhelming grief to seething rage-and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

Hamlet stabs him after Queen Gertrude dies from drinking the poision that was meant for Hamlet.

They have a great deal of respect for the king, who is the king after all. That seems to count for a lot with them. Very few people seem to share Hamlet's dislike for his stepfather, R & G included.

The only thing that Gertrude says is, "The lady protests too much, methinks," after Hamlet asks her, "Madam, how like you this play?" The "lady" that she is talking about is the Queen of King Gonzago in The Murder of Gonzago. Gonzago tells his Queen that he will die soon, and says that he hopes the Queen will find a second husband who loves her as much as he does. In response to that, the Queen (who Gertrude calls "the lady") goes on and on about how horrible it is for a widow to take a second husband. Gertrude's comment, "The lady protests too much, methinks," means that the Queen of Gonzago is being melodramatic and unrealistic.

I know for a fact that Hamlet was written in the 17th century and it takes place in the 800's. -hamletguru09 I know for a fact that Hamlet was written in the 17th century and it takes place in the 800's. -hamletguru09

Hamlet was the "hero," and certainly in the tragic sense, but he is also perhaps an anti-hero. Although Hamlet is probably the closest thing that the play has to a hero, it is more accurate to say that the play is not so one-dimensional as to be a conventional "hero" story. After all, it is a tragedy.

Young Fortinbras had gathered a troop of lawless desperadoes to try and take back the land that his father lost..

can be found in Act 1 Scene 1 lines 99-111

Hamlet's plan is to kill his uncle whose name is Claudius. He wants to kill him because he saw his fathers ghost who told him that his brother poisoned him therefore Hamlet's father wants Hamlet to avenge him by killing his brother Claudius.

Ophelia asks intriguing questions so hamlet then realises that she is asking them because someone is around and listening Ophelia hands back the love letters and he refuses to take them. he then tells her top go to a nunnery and that he doesn't love her anymore. he then asks where her father is and she replies with, "at home, my lord". he doesn't believe her and takes her in a headlock and searches around the foyer for the spies

I think in a duel with Ophelia's brother. But Ophelia's brother died too, because of a poisoned sword. Maybe i should start from the beginning.

Ophelia's brother chalenged Hamlet. Hamlet's uncle saw this as an oppurtunity to get rid of Hamlet. So he got Ophelia's brother to put poison on his sword. And just un case that didn't kill him, Hamlet's father also put poison in Hamlet's drink.

But then Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, tried to drink the poison in a toast to her son. Hamlet's uncle tries to stop her, but it's too late.

Meanwhile, the swords are switched in battle. Ophelia's brother dies, but forgives Hamlet in his last moments. When Hamlet's mother dies, Hamlet's uncle is revealed to be the murderer. Hamlet challenges him to a duel. They both die.

By Act 5, Hamlet knows just about everything he needs to know. He reports to Horatio that he discovered the secret orders given to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern which proved that the King was trying to kill Hamlet. He does not yet know about Laertes' complicity in this, but doesn't try to find out either. When he finds out that Ophelia is dead, he does not inquire after the details of her death. He has made a decision to go with the flow ("There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.")

From Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2, Page 4:

These indeed "seem,"

For they are actions that a man might play.

But I have that within which passeth show,

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

The correct answer is: He's saying that outward appearances of grief may be feigned, but that what he feels is real grief.

He makes more than one speech. But assuming you are meaning the one that goes "Now is the very witching hour of night, when churchyards yawn and Hell itself breathes contagion into this world. Now could I drink hot blood." he is thinking about killing Claudius.

Hamlet's mother died by drinking a goblet of wine that was supposed to go to Hamlet. The King had poisoned the wine in an attempt to kill Hamlet and seeing his queen about to take a sip, he tries to persuade her otherwise. She drinks anyway.

Claudius was hamlets Uncle and later became his stepfather because his mother Queen Gertrude married Hamlets uncle "Claudius".

I think you must know the answer to this better than anyone here. Maybe it's because you find the gravediggers funny. Maybe it's because you like Hamlet's dirty jokes.

Good question. He cannot hope to hide the crime and indeed has no intention of doing so. He tells his mother "I will bestow him and will answer well the death I gave him." It would appear that his main intention is to annoy and harass Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Claudius who are looking for the body to give it a decent burial.

Ophelia's flowers are the symbol of her madness. Here her brother has been sent away, her lover has begun verbally abusing her, and her father has been brutally murdered and rushed to burial. She reaches out to things natural and beautiful (the flowers), before falling into the pong and letting herself drown (as in "there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow").

Hamlet is a fictitious character. He was not really born and did not really die. Unless it says something in the text of the play about it, and it doesn't, there can be no answer to this question.

Hamlet meets them, as well as Marcellus, in Act I Scene 2. Claudius has just made a long speech talking, among other things, about how he has married Gertrude. Hamlet has jsut had a long soliloquy in which he complains about the haste in which the wedding has taken place. When he asks Horatio, "What make you from Wittenberg?" Horatio responds "I came to see your father's funeral" and Hamlet replies "Do not mock me, fellow student, I think it was to see my mother's wedding."

What was this event at which Claudius makes a big speech, and Gertrude asks Hamlet to cast his nighted colour off? It might have been the wedding banquet. That is not certain however.

Hamlet asks the gravedigger how long he has been a gravedigger, and the gravedigger answers that he started his job the day King Hamlet defeated Fortinbras senior, which was the day young Hamlet was born. The gravedigger then says "I have been sexton here man and boy thirty years." Hamlet is therefore thirty years old.

He is talking about Claudius and about killing him.

He went to school in England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.