Hamlet

People have being trying to figure this one out for 400 years. There is no simple answer, and the play has been described as "inexhaustible"

This is one of the most debated questions about Hamlet and one to which no definitive answer can be given. There are three possible answers:

1. Hamlet was really mad.

2. Hamlet was just putting it on. Evidence for this are his lines to his friends that he is going to "put an antic disposition on". He also says clearly to his mother that "it is not madness that I speak". He behaves very strangely when he is with Polonius but once he is gone, his behaviour changes and he sneers, "These tedious old fools."

3. Both. He was putting it on but he was unstable.

Actors have played him all three ways successfully.

He's the king. A subject should obey his king.

Hamlet asks the Players to perform a play called "The Murder of Gonzago." In it, a guy called Gonzago gets murdered. The players put on this play, with the first player playing the part of Gonzago, although he is not referred to by name.

Laertes.

Fortinbras had it coming because his name was gay

Hecuba is a character in one of the stories in Hamlet. I think the play was called Mouse Trap or Murder of Gonzago im not sure which one tho

Uncle Claudius poured poison down his ear while he was sleeping in an orchard

Hamlet's old school chums Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Ophelia might not have gone crazy, Laertes would not have come home to fight hamlet, and king Claudius might not have wanted to send hamlet away.

And you make yourselves another." (Act 3 Scene 1)

They both say they want Hamlet to stay at Elsinore Castle instead of going back to school at Wittenberg.

Reynaldo serves as a servant and spy for Polonius in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." He is tasked with the responsibility of gathering information about Laertes, Polonius's son, who is studying in Paris. Polonius instructs Reynaldo to subtly inquire about Laertes's behavior and character, reflecting Polonius's manipulative nature and his desire to control those around him. Reynaldo's role highlights themes of surveillance and deception within the play.

"Never to speak of this that you have heard", by which he means the appearance of the ghost, although Horatio heard nothing from the ghost's lips. Also, "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself . . .that you, at such times seeing me, never shall . . . note that you know aught of me." Horatio and Marcellus are not to suggest even that they have an idea why Hamlet is doing what he is doing.

Man versus society

"So excellent a king that was to [Claudius] Hyperion to a satyr".

King Hamlet's spirit is in Purgatory, the waiting-room for heaven, where he is punished (by "sulfurous and tormenting flames" apparently) for the sins he committed since his last confession. It's a very Catholic concept.

Claudius

Hairaisin' ...

Twenty-three years at the time Hamlet arrives at his grave.

man vs himself - Deciding whether to kill Claudius or not. In addition to this, Hamlet shows through his sililoquies whether he should live or die. "To be or not to be, that is the question" man vs man - Hamlet vs. Claudius. Hamlet vs. Laertes. Hamlet vs. Polonius man vs. society - Claudius can't punish Hamlet because the civilians love him. Claudius and Gertrude's marriage are considered incestous, and therefore go against society's norms.

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Lamord was French, from Normandy.