Hamlet

A foil is a literary term.

The stock answer is that it is about suicide. The problem is that it doesn't make any sense as being Hamlet contemplating doing away with himself. The speech is not phrased as being about Hamlet personally--the words "I", "me" and "my" do not appear in it. Instead it is "we", "us" and "our". Hamlet has already dismissed the idea of suicide for himself in Act 1, and he has just finished deciding on vigorous action just before giving this speech. He is not in a suicidal mood.

It seems to be more of a specualtion about why people are "patient Grissels" instead of trying to do something about the miseries of their life, even by committing suicide ("their own quietus make with a bare bodkin"). He comes to the conclusion that the fear of death makes cowards of people generally, making them suffer rather than do something that would change their condition.

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The Lion King

Claudius will be killed, but his mother will be spared.

Hamlet's killing of Claudius using Laertes' poisoned sword is an act of vengeance, but not the one envisaged by the ghost. Laertes has just revealed that the sword which has wounded both Hamlet and himself is poisoned. He then goes on, "Thy mother's poisoned. I can no more. The King, the King's to blame."

Faced with this accusation that Claudius is responsible for three deaths--Laertes, Gertrude, and Hamlet, Hamlet immediately goes after him with the sword. ("The point envenomed too? Then venom, to thy work.") Claudius is poisoned but not yet dead (he says, "I am but hurt"), so Hamlet forces him to drink the rest of the poisoned cup ("Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother.")

Laertes feels that this is justifiable: he says, "He is justly served." Somehow, this act, done in the heat of the moment, sits better with us than the cold-blooded murder urged on him by the ghost. It sits better with Hamlet too. And for all his admiring talk about his father, when he gets down to killing Claudius, he is not thinking about revenging his father at all--his thoughts are for his mother.

If we take it that Hamlet killed Polonius believing him to be the king, and therefore as a part of his plot for revenge, then Polonius's death, and indirectly Ophelia's arise from his act of revenge. Claudius of course dies from Hamlet's revenge. Gertrude, Laertes and Hamlet die as a result of Laertes and Claudius's plot. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die just because Hamlet doesn't much like them.

A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore. Hamlet asks traveling actors to put on a play that is similar to the circumstances of his father's death.

Laertes challenges Hamlet to a Fencing contest. Laertes treats his blade with poison and Claudius has a backup plan of poisoning Hamlet's wine.

Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius. She is also the sister to Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet.

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elsinore in denmark

There is the image of sickness/disease/poison that runs all the way through the play which perhaps represents the corruption of Claudius killing his brother and the way Hamlet sees his mother as tainted and corrupted. It also ties in with the madness suffered by Hamlet and Ophelia.

Also, there are lots of images of flowers and gardens to represent order and disorder: at the beginning something is "rotten" in the state of Denmark and reference to the situation as an "unweeded garden" and it follows through the play to give the impression of constantly working towards an type of order and stability.

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Polonius is sure, at first, that Hamlet would never marry Ophelia, because of the difference in social status, so he thinks that Hamlet must be only trifling with Ophelia, just for sex. Polonius fears Hamlet doesn't really love Ophelia, and he would get Ophelia pregnant, and then abandon her. We see that in Act 1 scene 3. (Later, in Act 2 scene 1, Polonius changes his mind, however.)

Nothing is really evident, but rather speculation only. Readers may be able to sense the lack of sympathy Claudius holds for Old Hamlet and also how he tries to move on the conversation from the King's death to another topic.

Fortinbras

The ghost of King Hamlet disturbs the watch of the Elsinore guards.

because she was in love with him

In some ways, it is. According to its filmmakers, The Lion King was inspired by the Joseph and Moses stories in the Bible, in which most Christians believe actually happened. Also, the film bears heavy similiarities to The Epic of Sundiata Keita, which took place in 13rd century Africa. However, the filmmakers never admitted to being inspired by the story while producing the movie.

All kinds of theatrical conventions are used in Hamlet, most of which we do not even notice. For example, although the characters die, we expect the actors to stay alive so they can take a curtain call. Although Hamlet and his mother are talking in her bedroom, they are not enclosed by four walls. The audience is always visible to the actors (indeed the actors make a point of facing the audience so they can be seen and heard) but the actors do not as a rule acknowledge that they are there. Soliloquys involve either a person talking aloud to himself, which we are supposed to think is totally normal, or an actor suddenly noticing the audience and talking to them. Asides involve a person making a remark ("A little more than kin and less than kind") which can be heard by everyone in the audience but not by anyone on the stage. In Hamlet as in most of Shakespeare's plays, most of the actors talk in iambic pentameter all the time, and have a habit of rhyming at the end of an act. ("Oh cursed spite/ That ever I was born to set it right" "The play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.") We are not supposed to pay attention to this strange method of talking.

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ITV Saturday Night Theatre - 1969 Hamlet 3-30 was released on:

USA: 17 November 1970

UK: 8 August 1971

You don't. This is a vexed question. Gertrude's speech in Act IV Scene 7 seems to indicate that her death was an accident, but the priest isn't buying it for some reason, as he refuses her a proper funeral. And Gertrude is carrying this news to the hotheaded and unbalanced Laertes who Claudius is trying to calm down. Maybe she tweaked the story to make it sound like an accident, as telling Laertes that it was a suicide might drive him over the brink. Then again, she may be trying to argue for an accident in the hope that Ophelia will be properly buried, knowing in her own mind that it was a suicide. So you cannot be sure whether it was accident or suicide.

That would be Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." soliloquy, where Hamlet contemplates suicide.