King Claudius

suicidal and starts to talk to the king. In act 3 scene 1 he talks about living or dying and the moral of suicide. Also in act 4 scene 3 hamlet is talking to claudus about polonius at supper but hamlet really means polonius will be eaten at supper. those are 3 of the main things of how hamlet talks about suicide throughout the story as i will explain how Hamlet is not suicidal at all. When hamlet was talking to the king in act 1 scene 2 hamlet goes to the king and tells him how he is feeling…

how Claudius killed the king. Hamlet used the play he directed to test what the ghost had told him and he found it to be true due to Claudius’ reaction. If for…

He tells his son that while he was sleeping, Claudius poured poison into his ear. Hamlet is shocked by the ghosts words. The ghost asks Hamlet to “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” (I.5.25) Prince Hamlet vow’s to avenge his father’s death, and promises not hurt his mother even though he blame’s her for re-marrying to his uncle right after his father’s death. Since the revenge was requested, and not Prince Hamlet’s own decision, we could question if Hamlet would consider avenging his…

In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Laertes is a character foil to Hamlet, is the son of Polonius, and brother of Ophelia.Throughout the play Laertes is not really mentioned because he spends most of his time away in college. He returns back to Denmark when hearing about his father death. Overall I will describe Laertes as a character who acts furiously due to his temper issues. The significance of Laertes in the play is he causes tension with and Hamlet and at the end of the book is the one…

Hamlet planned to kill the new king that his mother re married because to him no one could replace his father, therefore Hamlet had a sword with poison on it for Claudius but there was a cup of poison ready for Hamlet that his mother accidentally drank. “No, no, the drink, the drink!—O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned. (Dies)” (Hamlet…

different tactic in order to reach the same result, finding the guilty person. Hamlet’s eagerness for the truth relies on deception because of limitations of his perception of actuality vs. appearance. The play is introduced with the death of the King of…

he doesn’t like anybody around who knows!”(42). At the time Linda had no idea about the affair, that taken place years earlier. But to digress back to the topic, Willy cheated on his wife, lied to his sons and never told the truth, similar to how Claudius comitted incset with his brothers wife, lied to Hamlet and kept his own dark secret. In…

Claudius is revealed as a cunning and clever character in Hamlet. He managed to kill King Hamlet and marry his wife, which also happened to be his sister-in-law, and would have gotten away with it had it not been for the ghost. From the description of Prince Hamlet, he appears to be the complete opposite of a charming person because he is “no more like [his] father than [he]to Hercules” and throughout that soliloquy Hamlet praises his father immensely but turns the words to his uncle with spite…

The Ghost of the previous Danish king in Hamlet is a potent element that causes Prince Hamlet variety of reactions toward the world around him and the unexpected killer, King Claudius. The ghost in the beginning of the play sets an eerie tone while emitting and foreshadowing a theme of death. Often in literature, the presence of a ghost indicates something left unresolved. Scholars argue that the ghost in Hamlet is only a figment of Hamlet’s imagination, or is it real? The appearance of the…

the production. The catalyst? As The Mousetrap continues along its course, King Claudius stands before the crowd and takes his leave of the scene, retreating to places unknown. Hamlet, seeing this singularly ambiguous action as proof positive of his uncle’s guilt, allows an unconfirmed suspicion to congeal as fact in his delusion-wracked psyche, one which carries with it dire action. Soon afterwards, Hamlet tracks Claudius to his quarters, draws his sword, and says, “Now might I do it (pat,) now…