Hamlet

Marcellus thinks that Horatio may know how to speak to a ghost because he is a University Man. I guess Marcellus assumes that's the kind of thing you learn at a University.

King Claudius wants Laertes to kill Hamlet, but make it look like an accident. By sharpening his own foil, Laertes would be able to get away with it, because Hamlet, in his innocence and obliviousness, would not check the swords beforehand.

He asks Horatio not to kill himself so there will be someone left to explain to Fortinbras what happened.

Horatio lives to tell his friend's story.

In the "Closet Scene", Act III Scene 4, Hamlet says to Gertrude "Look here, upon this picture, and on this; the counterfeit presentment of two brothers." He is showing her two portraits, one of the late king Hamlet and one of the current king Claudius. Hamlet goes on and on about how perfect his father was and how awful his uncle is. He is trying to get her to share his opinions about his father and uncle. But it makes no sense: she knows better than anyone what the two men look like and are like. It hasn't bothered her before and why should it? So why does what he says turn her eyes into her very soul, entering like daggers in her ears and cleaving her heart in twain? What has Hamlet told her which is new? The answer is, probably, in Hamlet's line "As kill a king, and marry with his brother." Her response is "as kill a king??" Let's leave aside for a moment the fact that Hamlet is accusing her, not Claudius who he knows to be guilty. His accusation encompasses her as a party to the crime. But it may very well be that Gertrude had no idea before this moment that her husband had been murdered, but now that Hamlet has suggested it, things start to fall into place. It is this which upsets her, not Hamlet's comparison of his father and Claudius.

He doesn't, unless it is his plan to annoy her, because that is his main effect on her. Gertrude is a woman of few well-chosen words, and the garrulous and flowery Polonius's method of speaking drives her nuts. "More matter with less art" she brilliantly and tersely chides him.

to see if its really a ghost

Woody Allen.

Yes, Gertrude loved Ophelia dearly. Her first words to Ophelia are "And Ophelia I do wish your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness. So shall I hope that your virtues may bring him to his wonted way again to both your honours." This is a kindly speech, commending Ophelia not only for her beauty but also for her virtue. Her hope is that Ophelia's influence could temper Hamlet's wild behaviour. In this we hear a gentle foreshadowing of Gertrude's grief-stricken "I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife".

Most telling of all is the way she tells the story of Ophelia's death. She is not content with a bald report of her drowning but fills it with sad detail. In the end, however, she can say nothing but "Drowned, drowned."

True. Hamlet changed the king's orders to the English from "Kill Hamlet" to "Kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern." He didn't have to do that; he could have changed the orders to "Give Hamlet some flowers".

Not lead, but a poison called hebenon, whatever that was supposed to be.

Shakespeare leaves the madness of Hamlet to the mind of the audience; you can read it either way. If he is mad (as in "insane"), it is a madness with a purpose. At any rate, it would be a curious sort of madness that depended on the winds.

The Danish state has totally broken down. The royal family is dead and there is no government left.

Horatio, in Act 1 scene 1. Hamlet doesn't see it until scene 4. It has to be this way because in scene 2 Horatio tells Hamlet that he has seen the Ghost.

Yes; that was Claudius's purpose in sending him to England.

NO! you don't have to wear a HAMLET !! but it would be a good idea to wear a HELMET

He is a student. "Horatio, thou art a scholar. Speak to it!"

King Claudius believes that Hamlet is a threat to him because Hamlet killed Polonius, who was hiding behind the curtains and Hamlet and actually thought it

was Claudius. Claudius feels threatened and in danger by Hamlets behavior and

as a precaution sends him to England, where Claudius also sends a letter to kill

Hamlet upon arrival in England.

False. At the beginning of the play, Bernardo and Francisco also saw the ghost. They were the first ones stated to have seen the ghost of Hamlet's father.

Hamlet asks Horatio to, "tell my story"

Hamlet is set at Elsinore Castle, Denmark, which is based on the real Kronborg Castle.

I think because on died and the other ones did too

I don't know about kite runner, but for Hamlet

dynamic (character changes): Hamlet, Ophelia, e.g.

static (character doesn't change): Polonius, Gertrude, e.g.

It means that God has a handin everything that goes on, even the death of a pretty little bird. No matter how small or insignificant something seems, God cares about it and has control over it.

In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the titular character reflects on the nature of existence and the fear of the unknown after death, which he describes in his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy. He suggests that the dread of what comes after death—such as the uncertainty of the afterlife—prevents men from taking their own lives. This fear of the unknown outweighs their suffering, leading them to endure the hardships of life instead. Thus, the contemplation of death becomes a paradox, where the fear of the afterlife keeps individuals trapped in their current struggles.