the mother to Hamlet. In the play, Gertrude doesn’t mean to intentionally hurt anyone, but her poor judgment is the main contributing factor to the unfortunate events. She also tends to be insensitive and lacks the ability to read her son’s emotions, as well as Claudius. The decisions she makes ultimately lead to the tragic ending. Poor judgment and insensitivity towards her son are her main character flaws, which can first be seen in Act I, Scene 2. Since her son Prince Hamlet is mourning
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In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the character Hamlet has many scenes in which the reader questions his sanity and yet there are various other scenes in which he appears to be perfectly normal. Due to this constant change, the reader is often at a crossroads as to whether or not Hamlet’s psyche has snapped. However, under careful examination, it is clear to see that it is simply all an elaborate act put on by Hamlet. This can be shown in Hamlet’s interaction with Polonius, for even though
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a common theme is revenge. The plots all have one common driving factor. Three revenge plots in Hamlet are Hamlet’s revenge on King Claudius, Fortinbras’s revenge on Denmark, and Laertes’s revenge on Hamlet; they add inadequacy to the play. To begin, Hamlet wants to get revenge on King Claudius for killing his father. Hamlet discovers, after speaking to the ghost of his late father, that King Claudius killed King Hamlet for power and love. The Ghost tells Hamlet to avenge
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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the image patterns such as an unweeded garden, rot, and deception conveyed by Hamlet demonstrate how his impelling sense of justice and inability to act on his decisions doom him to his fate. The image pattern of an unweeded garden exemplifies Hamlet’s melancholy view of Denmark's monarchy and his hesitation to uproot the metaphorical weeds. Hamlet’s use of rot imagery manifests his dissatisfaction with life and inability to vie for his throne. The pattern of deception
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Gertrude of Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a quiet, but complicated and misunderstood character. She was a misplaced cog in a broken, corrupt machine who never really quite fit, but she was neither good and needed nor bad and inhibiting. It seemed that everything she did, whether it be for her or her loved ones, was criticized, especially by her son Hamlet. And perhaps in sheer ignorance, or blatant apathy, she never addressed any of these critics or denied any rumors, such as the rumor that she was at
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By definition, insanity is a condition in which a person either does not know what they are doing, or they do not understand what they are doing is wrong. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the main character, Prince Hamlet, displays erratic behavior; however, he is not insane. Hamlet describes what he is doing to multiple characters, showing that he understands what he is doing, only acts mad around certain characters, demonstrating that he has enough of a grasp on reality that he can act normal when he wishes
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In ending to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, I was a little disappointed about each of the main character's fatal death. Shakespeare made the play predictable in many ways by dropping different hints throughout the tragedy. King Claudius was a deceitful opportunist who killed his own brother for kingship and married his former sister-in-law Gertrude. In my beliefs, this is where karma will come into play. Even hamlet himself, was driven by both vengeance and his inability to act as guilty like the others
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| |Title of the work |Significance of Title | |The Tragedy of Hamlet, |These plays were more over a small “history” of the main character and for this reason Shakespeare named all of | |Prince of Denmark |his great tragedies after his protagonist.
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Joey Puvel Ophelia’s Madness Despite the difficulty to pinpoint exactly what Shakespeare’s intended personalities for his characters in Hamlet were, Ophelia’s legitimate madness is one trait that isn’t easily proven otherwise. Poor Ophelia is a young girl conditioned to the medieval dogma that her father is the ultimate authority in her life until marriage, while also heavily drawn to her sense of romance characteristic to the Renaissance. Also, Ophelia cannot express herself the way the men around her can
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In the Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet, the young prince is in constant torment over the death of his father at his brother’s hand. Part of his torment comes from his mother’s decision to remarry his uncle. In act 3, scene 3, Hamlet, reaching a boiling point, finally decides to confront his mother about her marriage. Shakespeare uses a clothesline of figurative language to help draw in the audience and to add drama to scene as it plays out. After batting back and forth with words, Hamlet grabs his
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