Hamlet

The ghost confirms hat Claudius murdered his father.

yes he rellays did

hamlet is faking mad at the beginning so that the king wont guess that hamlet knows he killed his father. but when ophelia dies he actually goes mad and expresses his love to her.

Jealousy was the driving force behind Claudius killing his brother, King Hamlet, is because he is jealous and wants to be the king so he can have more power and do whatever he plays. He gave in to temptation and did what he thought would allow him to get him what he wanted with no one to stand in the way.

one example is in act 2 scene 2:"…O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!/Is it not monstrous that this player here,/But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/Could force his soul so to his own conceit…"

King Claudius will drink to anything. In Act 1 Scene 2 he says "No jocund health that Denmark drinks today but the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, and the King's rouse the heavens shall bruit again, respeaking earthly thunder." He's still at it that night, at midnight when Hamlet has to explain to Horatio why the cannons keep going off: "The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse, . . . and as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down the kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.

He does it again in Act 5 scene 2 when he says: "Give me the cups and let the kettle to the trumpet speak, the trumpet to the cannoneer without, the cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth, 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet'"

As nothing!

The Hamlet book I'm holding has 4070 lines in the book. The book is called Cliffs Complete and has the play Hamlet in it as well as other information about the play.

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His mother Gertrude called for help and a voice came from behind the curtain repeating the call for help. Hamlet assumed that it was Claudius and his chance to kill him had come so he stabbed through the curtain. It was only after that he found that it wasn't Claudius after all.

Chances are low that they've checked the ghost's driving licence or some other ID, maybe they've seen the well-known face?

Gertrude and Ophelia as for many women of their society don't have authority in many situations. For some reason they long to have a man above them having power to rule at least over them. For example, Gertrude marries Claudius very soon after the death of her first husband even though she did love her first hussy. Ophelia is deeply in love with Hamlet and even after the fact that he willing tells her to go to the nunnery. Along with other horrible things to say to her.

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Hamlet does not reveal much to these two. They go to him in order to find out about where Polonius has been buried, but they do not get many answers.

Nope, at least the Norway government hasn't to stop funding terrorist organizations. On the other hand, he's a pretty well-rounded fellow and has probably read or seen Hamlet at some point.

It's mostly Polonius's scheme, not Claudius's. Polonius is a spymaster and his answer to everything is to spy on the person. He proposes that by spying on Hamlet's supposedly private conversation with his mother, Polonius may learn something relating to Hamlet's madness. It's an Elizabethan wiretap.

Polonius suggests the scheme in 3,1 as follows:

My lord, do as you please,

But if you hold it fit, after the play,

Let his queen mother all alone entreat him

To show his grief. Let her be round with him,

And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear

Of all their confidence.

Claudius agrees because "madness in great ones should not unwatched go." In 3,3 Polonius tells Claudius "he's going to his mother's closet. Behind the arras I'll convey myself to hear the process." he then says

And, as you said, and wisely was it said,

'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,

Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear

The speech of vantage.

Claudius said no such thing. Polonius is putting his own words in Claudius's mouth and then congratulating the king on how clever he is for saying them. Polonius knows how to be a courtier.

yes of course

It has the effect of putting people to sleep. Even Polonius cannot keep track of what he is saying. Reynaldo, surprisingly, is keeping up with him and is able to put him back on track.

he was ready to get some

He threatens them. "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me." (this is, by the way, an unusual twist of the word "lets"--instead of the expected meaning "permits" it means the opposite: "prevents")

Yes. "It faded on the crowing of the cock."

Hamlet tells his mother Queen Gertrude that she must repent choosing Claudius over his father. This occurs in Act 3 scene 4 of Hamlet.

Does "to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty" not make it clear enough for you? Perhaps "he that hath killed my king and whored my mother" is clearer.

If you mean the line "Oh that this to that solid flesh should melt! That it should come to this, but two months dead" the line as a whole means something like "I can't believe it- Dad's been dead for only 2 months- not even! but Mom's still marrying my uncle! She is so mean!" The "it should come to this" part is pretty straightforward: the "it" just means things generally and "come to this" means turn out this way, so "that it should come to this", means "that it should turn out this way".

In Hamlet and other plays, Shakespeare uses the soliloquy to explain the thoughts of his characters : their feelings, desires, and motivations. It is often used as a 'stream of consciousness', as the character examines aspects of his own psyche. Hamlet's famous monologue (in act III, scene 1) gives us his view of life and mortality, as he struggles with his decision on revenging his father's murder.