Hamlet

There have been many women who have died for men in the name of love. These women have been the subjects of many books.

Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, is telling him to stop looking and feeling so gloomy and to stop dwelling on his father's death. She states, "all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity." It is a common observation that all living things finally stop living, from bacteria to whales. But where were we before we were born? Where will 'we' be after we die? Is there a beginning or an end to time itself, which witnesses all births and deaths without giving up one clue to this continuing mystery? All that anyone really knows is that we go from this earthly existence, "nature," back into the very same mystery from where we came, "eternity." The Queen is not interested in mysteries; she simply wants everyone to be in good spirits so that she and her new husband can enjoy themselves, even after murdering Hamlet's father. Queen Gertrude: "Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,

And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy noble father in the dust:

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity." To summarize, she quickly uses this timeless observation - we all die - simply to tell Hamlet to "get over it" and look toward healthier pursuits. Of course, he is helped to see the truth of his own mother's betrayal through his father's ghost, and eventually Hamlet brings vengeance to the new king and his mother in this excellent tragedy of Shakespeare.

It is called "The Murder of Gonzago". But Hamlet gives it a new name, "The Mousetrap", because he intends to trap Claudius with it.

This quote is by Shakespeare, from Hamlet.

Hamlet is upset at Ophelia and in that particular scene, known as the Nunnery Scene, (immediately after "to be or not to be"). She asks him if Beauty has more power than Honesty, and Hamlet tells her that such is the case indeed, because beauty has a power that transforms honesty, to be somewhat demagogical, changing truth to appeal to beauty. He tells her he loves her, she says he made her believe so, and he replies that she shouldn't have, because he didn't. Lie comes lie goes he tells her to become a nun, now it's a bit of blablabla about something not so related, and then he goes:

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God

has given you one face, and you make yourselves

another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and

nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness

your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath

made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:

those that are married already, all but one, shall

live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a

nunnery, go.

When you take it out of context "you" seem to refer to anybody or everybody. But it actually means "you women". He is talking, I think, about women being hypocritical and fake, with changing faces (or faces altered by makeup, or "paintings") and hidden intentions.

Not that I agree, but I think that the quote, in context, means that.

Out of context it could be pointing to people not being truthful and honest to themselves. A Goethe's quote comes to mind: If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

'Honesty' means chastity - a plain girl has more chance of being chaste, than a pretty one. Therefore, if you put make-up on and flirt around (jig, amble, lisp), it may be construed as wantonness. You are on the 'pull'.

It is an absurdist play about the nature of death: comic-ironic.

Not. She answers Polonius's question evasively: "Something concerning the Lord Hamlet." She doesn't say what, and Polonius then launches into his own warnings about Hamlet.

Yes. See his speeches when Fortinbras arrives and when the Players arrive, for example.

Are you talking about the "Hamlet"?

It's Osric. read Act5 Scene2, when Hamlet is talking to Horatio aside.

Hamlet is told by the ghost of his father that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle Claudius who is now the king and Hamlet's stepfather. In the process of pursuing his revenge, Hamlet kills Polonius, Claudius's counsellor and the father of Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia. Ophelia goes mad and dies, and her brother Laertes comes vowing vengeance for his father's death. Laertes and Claudius plot Hamlet's death, but although Hamlet is mortally wounded, their plot misfires, killing Hamlet's mother and Laertes. Hamlet kills Claudius before he, too, expires.

Both Laertes and Hamlet.

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Elsinore...a port city in Denmark.

Some examples of disorder in Hamlet include:

-Disorder in Society

-Loss of King Hamlet

-New King (Claudius)

-Treat of invasion by Fortinbras of Norway

-Disorder of Family

-Claudius killing his own brother

-Incestuous Relationship (Claudius marrying his sister-in-law)

-Betrayal

-Disorder in the Universe

-Ghost

-Disorder of the Mind

-Hamlet pretending to be crazy

-Ophelia going crazy

Horatio

William Shakespeare

In one sense he only tries once, and succeeds. However when he kills him, he both stabs and poisons him, so in a sense he is killing him twice.

one of my dick and the other of ya mom an my dick.

When he accidentally kills Polonius.

Theatrical costumes are good or bad depending on whether they support the view of the character the director is trying to present. Mark Rylance played Hamlet in striped pajamas. Of course he was trying to portray him as a fragile, childlike, mentally infirm person, so that worked. Mel Gibson played him as an action figure, so dark colours and leather worked for him.

You should check out the famous 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet with Richard Burton in the title role. In this production the director (Sir John Gielgud) refused to impose any costume suggestions at all on the cast, and asked them to wear the ordinary clothes they would wear to a rehearsal. Check out how Burton decided to dress himself as Hamlet.

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Hamnet Shakespeare died at the age of eleven in 1596.

Hamlet

Well, the answer to this question would end up as someone's opinion, so it wouldn't be a fact, really. Questions like this are not smart, no effence, because the answer will always be different. Sorry, but I wont answer your question. :o)

Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex might explain Hamlet's behavior.