Hamlet

Five.

O that this too too solid flesh would melt (Act 1 Scene2)

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I (Act 2 Scene 2)

To be, or not to be (Act 3 Scene 1)

Now might I do it pat (Act 3 Scene 3)

How all occasions do inform against me (Act 4 Scene 4)

What he says immediately before she utters this line is "Forgive me this my virtue for in the fatness of these pursy times virtue itself of vice must pardon beg." but surely Hamlet's smug belief in his own virtue or his cynical view of the world cannot have cleft her heart in twain. However, Hamlet has just completed an extended rant, interrupted by the appearance of the ghost, in which he is urging his mother to break off marital relations with her husband the king. Has he persuaded her that being a good wife to Claudius is a bad thing by comparing Claudius's picture to that of Hamlet's father? Surely not. What does Hamlet tell Gertrude that she didn't know before? "Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother." says Hamlet, and Gertrude immediately seizes upon the new information. "As kill a king?" she says. It takes a while for this to sink in and for the truth of the accusation to dawn on her, and all the while Hamlet is ranting away. She wants him to stop so she can think about this, and to evaluate her position: she has unwittingly married her husband's murderer. This is what has cleft her heart in twain

Claudius tells us the reasons for his crime in Act 3 Scene 3. "I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder: my crown, my own ambition, and my queen." So, his motives were to become king, to become more important and powerful than he was, and to marry Gertrude whom he loved.

Prior to Hamlet's entry into Gertrude's (Hamlet's mother) chamber, Polonius is having a discussion with the queen. As Hamlet enters his mother's room rather abruptly, Polonius chooses to hide behind a tapestry on the wall. When Hamlet begins to threaten his mother, Polonius believes Hamlet is trying to kill her, and so Polonius cries for help. Hamlet "thinking it was King Claudius" (it is unclear as to whether he actually believes its the King or not), stabs Polonius through the tapestry, killing him. As he dies he lets out his iconically obvious line "Oh, I am slain".

Claudius was suspicious that Hamlet knew of his crime after the players had put on their show. After Claudius hears that Hamlet had stabbed Polonius, Claudius was certain that Hamlet was trying to kill him. To protect himself, he sends Hamlet to England with a letter and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to deliver him. The letter contains instructions for the king of England to have Hamlet executed.

In the Old Testament (Judges 11 ), Jephthah vows to sacrifice to the Lord the first living thing that comes out of his house if the Lord will give him the victory of the Ammonites. Unfortunately, the first living thing to come out was his own daughter. Thus he was under oath to offer his daughter as a burnt offering.

In the same way, Hamlet is insinuating that Polonius is will to sacrifice his own daughter for personal gain.

William Shakespeare's greatest achievements were his plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Hamlet because they are still performed and read

Possibly winter? "The wind blows shrewdly, it is very cold." "It is a nipping and an eager air."

Possibly summer? The cock crows and the morn in russet mantle clad follows pretty soon after midnight. Short nights indicate summer. Also King Hamlet was murdered a month or so before "sleeping in his orchard" which you wouldn't do on a winter afternoon.

Hamlet's mood changes considerably thoughout the play. Early in the play he expresses disgust with the way the world goes, especially his mother's remarriage. "Oh, God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." Later he will express this same disgust to Gertrude. "Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty--"

With himself he is sometimes annoyed, sometimes disappointed. "Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, that I the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by Heaven and Hell must, like a wh*re, unpack my words, and fall a-cursing like a very drab." and later "I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do' sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do't."

Hamlet never expresses the kind of stomach-churning disgust about himself that he does about Claudius and his mother's remarriage. He never loses confidence in himself or feels that he has ignored his moral compass. He can be contrasted with Macbeth who really does view himself with disgust.

Polonius dies in the play. Hamlet kills him while he is in Gertrude's room. Polonius was spying on Hamlet. Hamlet thought that there was a mouse behind the curtain so he swung his sword and killed polonius while he was behind the curtain.

Polonius says this to his son Laertes.

Polonius is one of the most underhand and dishonest characters in the entire play. (In fact he is killed while trying to spy on Hamlet a few scenes later).

Draw your own conclusion.

Claudius tries to send Hamlet to England, accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

However, R & G don't know it's a mission to have Hamlet killed. We can be certain of that just because of the fact that they continue to England without Hamlet.

The scene funeral of King Hamlet was never appear in the book and it did appear in the movie.

At first he is afraid until he realized it was his father who has come to tell him about his murder by his brother and wife. This sets Hamlet on the course to revenge his father.

Hamlet stabbed him with the poisoned sword which Laertes had poisoned to kill Hamlet. He was, in Hamlet's phrase, "hoist with his own petard."

Hamlet's and Laertes's differences are most evident in their personalities. To begin with, the single biggest difference between the characters of Hamlet and Laertes is the fact that Hamlet is a thinker - for that matter, an over-thinker. Until the very last act of the play, Hamlet is plagued by procrastination. Although he is extremely motivated by the story of his late father's ghost, Hamlet sits to think about mortality and the usefulness of killing the king. For instance, Hamlet's most famous speech appears in Act III, scene i, lines 62-94, and in it he ponders whether or not it is better to live an unhappy life or to face the unknown beyond of death. His thinking generally renders him inactive. Standing in stark contrast to Hamlet's thinking-not-action style, Laertes moves quickly and acts rashly in his anger, choosing to act first and apologize later. This is made apparent in act V, when he speaks "I am justly killed with mine own treachery." (Scene ii, line 323) immediately after he falls. Laertes quick action and lack of though also leads to another contradiction in his and Hamlet's personalities. Laertes is significantly more obedient then Hamlet. While Laertes listens carefully to both his father's and Claudius's words, Hamlet often defies and even goes so far as to manipulate Claudius. Hamlet's character is much deeper than Laertes. He is more intelligent, which results in Hamlet's quick wit and sarcasm. Undoubtedly, Hamlet's and Laertes's personalities are considerably different.

The scene begins with Polonius hiring someone to find out if his son has been up to no good while he's been abroad. The scene is meant to be funny, poking fun at an overly concerned father. Polonius is a little manic and absent minded and he lends a lighthearted tone to the first half of the scene. When Ophelia enters onstage, however, the mood changes. She is clearly disturbed as she tells her father about how Hamlet came into her room looking disheveled and started acting crazy. He says that he will put on an "antic disposition" in the scene before, and here we get to see the first example of that. This begins the intrigue and manipulation that carries on throughout the play, resulting in the death of almost every major character.

"Versus" means against. Your question (which is not a question or sentence of any kind) suggests that possibly Hamlet was fighting against his inability to decide. If he could decide to fight against it, it looks like he was able to decide after all.

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Horatio is the only main character in Hamlet to survive the final scene.

However Fortinbras also survives the play, and some might consider his a main character. Though he doesn't appear until the end of the play, he is referenced numerous times, and ultimately becomes the new king of Denmark.

Hamlet sends letters through the pirates that captured, and inadvertently saved him. He sends letters to Horatio, Claudius, and Gertrude. Claudius's one is meant to taunt him. The pirates use someone named Claudio as an intermediary--presumably he's a courtier, but we never see him.

In the play Hamlet, there is a strict guard being maintained at the Castle of Elsinore because the King had just died. Whenever a monarch dies there tends to be unrest, so guard would be increased as a precaution.

Hamlet thinks Polonius is a "tedious old fool".