King Claudius

explanation The scene was held in Elsinore Castle, Denmark. It took place in 1300 to 1499 List of characters Lord Hamlet: coat and black clothes with a sword Horatio: \casual clothes Osric: casual clothes Lord:fancy clothes King: King clothes with a crown and the king blanket at the back Laertes: casual clothes with sword but fancy Queen Gertrude: queen clothes with a wig and HER blanket at the back. Literary device Irony: “i am justly kill’d with mine own treachery” This is an irony…

there is a sexual desire of all children for their parent, and view their other parent enviously and as rivals. Hamlet regards Claudius, Hamlet’s father’s brother, with utmost disgust, for having Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, killed and taking King Hamlet’s wife and Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude as his own wife. Hamlet is extremely sensitive with regard to his mother and Claudius and their romantic, sexual, and as Hamlet calls it, “incestuous” relationship. Through Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet…

When we first are in the presence of Claudius, we think he is a good, kind- hearted man who would do anything for his people, yet this good idea of him slowly dwindles as the story continues. Claudius hides a dark secret in which he murdered his own brother to obtain his crown, country, money and wife. He is a mastermind in lying, manipulation and covering his own tracks…

In Act III, Hamlet is able to act in Scene iv but not in Scene iii because of many reasons. When he sees Claudius kneeling, Hamlet says, “Now I might do it pat, now ‘a is a-praying, / And now I’ll do’t. And so ‘a goes to heaven” (3.3.73-74). He says here that he could easily kill Claudius now while he’s praying, but then Claudius will go to heaven because he is purging his soul and he is “fit and seasoned for his passage” (3.3.86). So Hamlet then says, “Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid…

the play, Hamlet’s father was killed by Claudius, Hamlet Senior’s brother. Hamlet seeks to get revenge on Claudius to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet is hesitant when it comes to getting revenge. He is very patient and thinks things through. There were many opportunities for him to kill Claudius but he always seemed to talk himself out of it. Hamlet was afraid to go to hell if he made a mistake and Claudius didn't really kill his father. To prove Claudius guilty of murder, Hamlet re-enacts his…

The ghost gives Hamlet a reason to carry out revenge against Claudius. Previous to his disrespect towards his Claudius which can be seen in Act 1 scene 2; when hamlet states “ a little more than kin and less than kind”after his uncle labels him as his “nephew and son”. The cause of hamlet’s revenge is a consequence of Gertrude’s actions…

madness in order to confuse and through the king and his attendants. When speaking with Horatio with the arrangements for the play, and just before the entrance of the court, Hamlet says, "I must be idle." (III. ii. 85.) This evidently is a declaration of his intention to be "foolish,".…

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, he is grieving over the death of his father King Hamlet. Just shortly after that, his uncle Claudius takes the throne and marries Hamlet’s mother, his sister-in-law. Hamlet is shocked that his mother easily forgets and marries another man after the King’s death. He later is visited by his father’s ghost and told that his uncle Claudius, murdered him, now Hamlet has to avenge his father and expose Claudius. In the tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare…

In the movie, The Lion King and in the play, Hamlet are very similar to each other. They are similar as in characters and in some events but with different names. The Lion King is a Disney movie for kids and Hamlet is a Shakespearean play. The Lion King has a baby cub named Simba, and the parents are lions named Mufasa and Sarabi. In the play, Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, whose parents are the Queen Gertrude and old King Hamlet. In both the play and the movie, there’s a bad guy as known as…

These all were not only major examples of the theme of justice vs revenge, but also were some of the most influential events in the play as well. The entirety of the play of Hamlet was about Hamlet trying to kill his uncle, King Claudius, to get revenge/justice for King Hamlet’s murder. Hamlet was visited…