Gertrude Stein

In Hamlet, the central protagonist Hamlet is exposed as a man of misery, depression and despair. We are soon to see that this condition is triggered from his outrage at his mother’s haste marriage to the brother of his father; Hamlet believes that such action is a blatant expression of disloyalty towards his father. Famously damning: ‘Frailty! Thy name is woman!’ Hamlet is left to dwell upon the moral shortcomings of ‘the wretched queen’. As a result, Hamlet comes to developing a cynical…

ACT 3 scene i Summary: After failing to discover the reason for Hamlet’s madness, Claudius tells Ophelia to meet up with Hamlet. Claudius and Polonius follows Ophelia. At first Hamlet is nice to her but then start getting suspicious thinking somebody sent her so he turns on her telling her that he never loved her. Ophelia is crushed by this, so Polonius tells the queen to talk to him alone. Meanwhile, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tells Claudius and the queen that Hamlet shows excitement towards…

Prince Hamlet’s father passes away. A month later Claudius, Hamlets uncle, marries Gertrude, who is Hamlet’s mother, and becomes king. Hamlet is upset and believes no one cares about his father’s death and him. Horatio, Hamlet’s best friend, visits Hamlet and tells him that he cares about him and wants to be there for him and him only, Horatio also tells Hamlet that he saw a ghost and that it might be his father. Hamlet speaks to the ghost and the ghosts reveals that he is Hamlet’s father and…

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, who is the prince of Denmark, was supposed to be the heir to the throne after the death of his father, King Hamlet. Instead, his father’s brother, Claudius, takes over as the new king of Denmark and also marries Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet’s mother. A couple months after the king’s death, Hamlet is still very upset that his mother married his uncle and in such a short time after the death of his father. Horatio, one of Hamlets close friends, is a guard of the…

actions. The play starts with an inexplicable miracle - the ghost of King Hamlet visits the castle and complains that he is unable to rest in peace because he was killed by Claudius who is now the King of Denmark and married to King’s widow - Gertrude. Hamlet…

In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare utilizes foil characters to illuminate Hamlet’s positive and negative attributes and thus portray him as a dynamic character. Shakespeare illustrates the commonality between Hamlet and the foil characters, Ophelia, Laertes, and Fortinbras, through the tragic events that consume their lives and their emotional responses. Furthermore, Shakespeare emphasizes the foil characters’ respective contrasts from Hamlet to expose his resilience, fairness, and…

Have you ever heard of a play called hamlet? The play hamlet is about revenge. In the play hamlet I think revenge is not justified because Claudius dies, hamlet dies, and Claudius killed hamlets farther. My first reason why I think revenge is not justified because Claudius ends up dying at end of the story. Hamlet did end up killing Claudius but was it worth it? Claudius killed hamlet farther by pouring poison into hamlets farther ear. Claudius killed hamlets mother also at end of the story by…

at the very same time, Claudius shows himself to be a very capable and intelligent leader. Claudius managed to take the place of his brother on the throne without anybody knowing about it, while also persuading the people of Denmark that marrying Gertrude was acceptable. Even though the people all know it was a very sinful act. Claudius shows himself as being a King that will think with wit and intelligence, but when it comes down to it, he's a…

Though Hamlet and Laertes demonstrated potential to be future leaders, they had identical destined fates in which different types of poison would represent the cause of their fallouts. Towards the end, poison plays a significant role towards all the characters as it what kills almost everyone involved. When Laertes and Hamlet duel each other, Claudius comes up with a scheme that would be fitting and less controversial on his behalf. The king decides make specifications in the duel by anonymously…

his ear while he slept. He did this because it meant that he would be able to take his place as king. He also killed King Hamlet because he wanted to steal his wife, which he did, and married her about two months after he killed the king. Queen Gertrude was also immoral, because she married so soon after her husband died, even though it was custom for a woman to be single for the rest of her life if her husband died or left her. She also received an unpleasant consequence as a result of…