Hamlet

The castle which Hamlet takes place in is called "Elsinore".

Laertes best suits the similarities between Macduff and himself. Both of them lost their family because of the protagonist (Hamlet killed Polonius and unintentionally caused Ophelia's death while Macbeth killed Macduff's wife and son). As well, they swore they would take revenge on the protagonist in which both of them successfully did however Laertes did die. Another similarity is that they both do not like the protagonist as much. For example, Laertes does not want Ophelia hanging around with Hamlet as Hamlet could be after her body and not her love while Macduff does not like Macbeth at all since he's been acting crazy and seems like a tyrant.

Prince Hamlet learns that his Uncle Claudius poisoned and murdered his brother and Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Also he learns that there is an afterlife, and what's more, the doctrine of Purgatory is true. He need never call death "the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns" again.

This is a matter of some debate. Clearly they had a romantic relationship (witness Hamlet's love-letter and "remembrances"); opinions differ on how physical that relationship went before the play started. There are also multiple interpretations of what happened to them during the play. We know that Ophelia was forced by her father to repudiate Hamlet, and he stops by her room half-undressed and behaving in a very odd way. Is this the ecstasy of love? Or Hamlet play-acting the madman? Or Hamlet trying to decide whether he can trust Ophelia? They have not talked for some time by the time we get to Act 3 Scene 1. The scene starts off awkwardly, because they are both trying to hint at something which they cannot say aloud because they both know that they are being watched, but they do not know that the other one knows. Ophelia would like to say, "Be very careful what you say, because my father is watching," while Hamlet would like to say, "I may behave oddly because I know your father is watching, but I still care." When Hamlet finds that she is aware that her father is watching, he leaps to the conclusion that she is part of the plot, and gets angry. Her affection has been bought by her father and by the King, therefore she belongs in a "nunnery". Shortly afterward he will inadvertently kill her father, and never get a chance to explain his anger. She concludes, not that he does not love her for her unworthiness, or that he is a jerk who doesn't deserve her love, but that "what a noble mind is here o'erthrown." He is crazy, or he would still show he loves her. We get a further hint of what is going on in Hamlet's mind at Ophelia's funeral. Feeling abandoned by all the men in her life, she has gone insane and died, maybe by suicide. Hamlet protests to Laertes "I loved Ophelia! Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum." Are we to take Hamlet at his word? Or is he merely protesting against Laertes's preposterous gesture in jumping into her grave?

The thing about Hamlet is, there isn't a simple answer to anything. And that's why it's the greatest play in the world.

when hamlet saw his father's ghost, the ghost said that hamlet's uncle (which he was king during that time) put poison in hamlet's father's ear while he was sleeping so he could become king.

so it was hamlet's uncle

"Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,

A violet in the youth of primy nature,

Froward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,

The perfume and suppliance of a minute."

The context shows the general meaning of the phrase--that Hamlet's love is transient and impermanent. A "toy" is a plaything, something not to be taken seriously. "In blood" is more difficult. There is no doubt about the reading: Q2 and Q3 have "blood", F has "bloud" and the passage is not in Q1. This is probably a reference to the theory of humours, the idea being that at present Hamlet is dominated by the humour blood, which would make his personality sanguine. A sanguine personality is "amourous, happy, generous, optimistic and irresponsible." Laertes is focusing on the last quality, suggesting that this passion arises from the irresponsibility of his sanguine nature.

It doesn't.

Hamlet was dressed wholly in black because he was in mourning for his dead father, the late King Hamlet. This bothers Claudius and Gertrude because rather than mourning his father's death, he should be celebrating their new marriage. Furthermore, it is "unmanly" for Hamlet to be displaying such grief.

The Ghost's parting line to Hamlet is , "Remember me." Then might be a good title.

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he was stabbed to death

The Queen can't see him. And that is really odd, because when the ghost appeared on the battlements, everyone could see him: Horatio, Marcellus and everyone.

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Hamlet calls Horatio "one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing." He does appear to have a very even keel emotionally. His low-key responses highlight Hamlet's wit: He replies to Hamlet's "I thought it was to see my mother's wedding" with the mild "Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon." Hamlet's "Do you think Alexander looked thus i' th' earth?" elicits a mere "E'en so, my Lord."

Horatio is always the voice of reason and skepticism. When he sees the ghost, he says, "I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes." Hamlet chides him with his famous "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" with being too much the voice of reason. He warns Hamlet not to follow the ghost, and later, not to accept the challenge of fighting Laertes. His policy both for himself and in his advice to Hamlet is to avoid potential conflict and danger, which demonstrates that Hamlet is not afraid of either, and indeed rushes to meet both.

Horatio is also Hamlet's conscience. When Hamlet explains how he has arranged for the deaths of his two spying school pals, Horatio mildly admonishes him with "So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to it," which prompts Hamlet to defend himself with "Why man they did make love to this employment." But we tend to feel with Horatio that it was a bit excessive.

In the end, the laconic and emotionally repressed Horatio is commissioned by Hamlet to "tell my story", a task for which we would have thought him unfit, except that the death of his friend brings poetry to his lips: "and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." Sure enough, Horatio the stoic, Horatio the dutiful and faithful friend, takes up the duty Hamlet has placed on him and begins to "tell his story" to Fortinbras.

If you are referring to The Lobby Scene, he knows that Claudius and Polonius are eavesdropping on them from behind the arras.

It's in Dulwich Village, London SE21 7AL.

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I assume you mean Martin Luther King. it was called prophetically in a sense- I"ve been to the Mountain Top, sometimes ungrammatically written as one word- Mountaintop. This was less than a week before his assasination.

During the Vietnam war it was often a village (hamlet) with strategic importance.

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He doesn't. He does not use the word "fit" in that sense or the word "seizure" at all. (He only uses the adjective "fit" as in "fit and seasoned for his passage".

There is no specific collective noun of hamlet, in which case, use an appropriate noun suitable for the situation, for example a region of hamlets, a coalition of hamlets, an enterprise of hamlets, etc.

Claudius says about Hamlet's meeting with Ophelia, "her father and myself, lawful espials, will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, we may of their encounter frankly judge." Polonius says "We will bestow ourselves" and "Let's withdraw my lord." The text is therefore not specific how this is to be done. Some possibilities are:

1. They go behind a wall with a hole drilled in it which looks through the eyes of a portrait or is otherwise disguised.

2. They go behind a curtain or other wall-hanging which is semi-transparent.

3. They go into a closet fitted with one-way glass (see Kenneth Branagh's movie)

4. They go to an upper storey of the room or balcony

Well, you could go through the play, writing down the most important events, and then go through and discuss how each was caused, and how each event affected later events in the plot.

"They made love to this employment." Hamlet says that R & G chose to be spies, so he is not responsible if they meet a spy's death. It's a bit of sophistry, really, since even were that true, Hamlet didn't have to add "no shriving time allowed" so their souls would have to go to Purgatory rather than Heaven.

Yes, in Act 5, Scene 2. "He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, popp'd in between the election and my hopes . . ." The lines do not appear in all versions of the play.