Hamlet

yes.

Hamlet Had an Uncle was created in 1940.

Claudius allows Laertes to head back to England. This was used to bring out the unjust treatment of Hamlet, whose own request was denied.

No in the opening scene Horatio, Hamlets friend, sees the ghost, along with two sentries, Marcellus and Bernardo. The Sentries have seen the ghost on previous nights and have called Horatio to see it too.

Hamlet comes to the conclusion (in the previous sentence) that what comes after death must "give us pause"... must in a sense give us peace from the toils of life. So he concludes: "there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life." paraphrased: That is an angle(respect) that makes a long life seem rather like a bad thing(calamity) than a good thing.

Of course then he remembers that he really doesn't know for sure whether he will really get his "pause" after death...

Hamlet does not blame his mother for being the object of male desires; he blames her for giving in to her own desires. Hamlet feels that as a widow her interest in men should cease. "You cannot call it love for at your age the hectic in the blood is tame", and "to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty" is disgusting to Hamlet. In Act III Scene 4 Hamlet pleads with his mother to stop her sex life. Claudius may be interested, but Gertrude can say no at any time, and that is exactly what Hamlet wants her to do. "But go not to mine uncle's bed; assume a virtue, if you have it not." The same theme is present in his soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2: "O, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets."

Reynaldo is a spy who is supposed to spy on Laertes.

Gertrude is responding to Hamlet's response about her last remark. She is trying to talk him out of mourning the death of his father, her late husband. She has said that everybody's father dies; "it is common"; it happens all the time. The dead fathers go to heaven, passing from nature to eternity. Hamlet replies, "Ay, madam, it is common" which looks like he agrees although most likely he really means that her actions are "common" in the sense that they would suit a dairymaid better than a queen. (Hamlet is, as you have probably noticed, a bit of a snob).

Gertrude however takes him at his word, and thinks she is getting through, so she asks the question, "If it be [common], why is it so particular with thee?" The word "particular" means "special to one person" as in "He has his own particular way of shuffling cards". What she is saying is, "Why if everyone else has this problem, are you acting like you are the only one who had a father die?"

Hamlet sees Laertes acting like a jerk, putting on a big show of grief, with himself the center of attention, instead of being properly respectful for Ophelia's funeral service. It makes Hamlet angry.

''A little more than kin, and less than kind" is Prince Hamlet's assessment of his relationship to the new king of Denmark, his uncle Claudius.

Yes the ghost only speaks to Hamlet. The others can see him but cannot hear him. When the ghost visits Hamlet in his mother's closet, his mother can neither see nor hear him.

If the secret is that Hamlet intends to kill Claudius, the correct answer is "false."

We learn during the play that Hamlet has told Horatio, but there's nothing about Hamlet telling Marcellus of his intent to kill Claudius.

yes

Polonius, his father.

This is unknown since he is a fictional character.

His openness and complexity

He ends up being King of Denmark. Since the entire royal family of Denmark gets dead in the last act, and Fortinbras happens to be there with an army, he wins by default.

Fortinbras says that he has some claim to the throne of Denmark. This is crap--he has no claim at all as Claudius showed clearly in the first act. He is just a scumbag adventurer who happens to be in the right place at the right time.

Really bad luck. He is talking about "suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" as opposed to taking "arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them." Slings and arrows are weapons: he feels attacked by "outrageous fortune". Because of the parallel structure of the sentence, we know that the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is the same thing as a sea of troubles. Fortune is luck, but this luck is an outrage, it is outrageous. He thinks he life is just a bunch of really bad luck.

He is suggesting that if it were not divinely prohibited he'd commit suicide. He is very disturbed over the death of his father and remarriage of his mother as the balance of the soliloquy shows.

nOp!!

Yes. Up to that point you see Claudius exclusively through Hamlet's skewed vision. In his "O, my offence is rank" speech, Claudius is shown to be a rational person, not the monster Hamlet believes him to be. He has committed a crime and a sin, and he knows it, and he knows that to really repent it he must give up the reward of his crime. Part of that reward is being married to Gertrude and he does not want to give that up because he loves her very much, no matter what Hamlet thinks.

A great question! The story of Hamlet derives from legends set in the ninth or tenth century. At that time Denmark had conquered much of England, and had forced it to pay a kind of protection money called "tribute", which meant that as long as the English paid, the Danes would not sail across the North Sea and ravish their country. There is reference to this in Claudius's line to Polonius: "He shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute." (3,1) The English of the time were a cowardly lot, who were prepared to grovel before the militarily superior Danes at the slightest opportunity. (Historically, apart from the reign of Alfred the Great, the English got regularly thumped by the Danes for a period of over 200 years from 800 to 1016). It therefore makes sense that if the King of Denmark sent word to England to kill someone, the English would eagerly reply, "And how quickly would you like that done?"

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