Claudius

characters to develop Hamlet’s character. Both Queen Gertrude and King Claudius develop Hamlet’s character differently than he develops himself. When Claudius is talking to Hamlet, he says “the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow: nut to persever in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness.” (Act I Scene ii) King Claudius is referring to that Hamlet’s father has passed away. Claudius says Hamlet has mourned too long. He refers to Hamlet as…

his father as a ghost, realizes the cold, hard truth about his murdered father. However, Claudius deceives the young Hamlet, murders his father, and proceeds to marry his mother. Both characters struggle for the love and attention of Gertrude and both slip into madness. In Act I, Scene II, Claudius discusses the death of his fallen brother. The first speech in scene II foreshadows the guiltiness of Claudius and revival of Hamlet’s struggle to attain his mother’s attention.…

he makes. Hamlet faces a dilemma when his deceased father orders him to kill Claudius. Hamlet wants revenge for his father, but he also knows that revenge and murder are sins and that he could end up in hell or in Purgatory with his…

by non-other than Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. It is revealed that Claudius snuck into the garden where King Hamlet was taking his afternoon nap, and Claudius poured poison into King Hamlet’s ear killing him painfully. As a result, Claudius now wears King Hamlet’s crown and sleeps with his wife. The ghost demands vengeance, telling Hamlet not to focus on his mother and leave her to the heavens stating she is weak and lustful, but to focus his revenge fully on Claudius. 1b) As Hamlet encounters the…

throughout the entirety of the play, but it is the scale of corruption that Shakespeare wants to emphasize. After the death of King Hamlet at the hands of Claudius, a chain effect of corruption leads to the collapse of Denmark.…

or to Claudius about how unnecessary it is to mourn King Hamlet’s death. In Act I scene II, she reprimands Hamlet for how upset he is about his father’s death when it is natural that “all that lives must die” (I.ii.74). When she says this, she demonstrates her lack of sadness over the loss of her husband, which shows that she did not feel the same love for him as he did for her and could have just married for position, which would also explain why she was so okay with quickly marrying Claudius.…

Ghost that King Hamlet was betrayed and murdered by his own brother. The Ghost speaks the words “So art thou to revenge what thou shalt hear,” to Hamlet, which brings up the theme of revenge. The Ghost asked Hamlet to revenge his death by killing Claudius, the current king of Denmark. Once this idea was placed in Hamlet’s head the story…

Hamlets insanity affects every main character in the play greatly. For example, Hamlet wanted to make Claudius suffer just like Claudius made his father suffer. His insanity made Claudius suffer of guilt of killing his father. Also, Hamlet made his mother suffer of guilt as well. In one occasion in the play Hamlet present his own play with a scene of an actor playing his mother. The actor…

in the 1600’s. It is a tragedy, like many of his other plays, and is about a man named Claudius that poisoned his brother (King Hamlet). Hamlet, the son of Gertrude and King Hamlet, is upset about his mother and uncle (Claudius) getting married after King Hamlet’s death. He found out from his father’s ghost one night that his uncle killed his father and that Hamlet needed to seek revenge for his father. Claudius eventually sends his nephew to England to be killed, since he knows that Hamlet…

talks to Horatio being completely sane and in control of all his thought and actions. At one point Hamlet's mother is worried about him so he has to tell her that he is not mad, ‘but mad in craft.’[Act iii, scene iv, lines 188-199] When he talks to Claudius and certain other characters he feigns insanity. This is most noticeable in in act 3, scene 2, Hamlet trust Horatio and talks to him about…