Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

adulterous relationship).” With this union, Claudius diminishes the sanctity of marriage and the throne. Claudius’s immoral influences continue as he continually encourages and orders people in the castle to spy or deceive on his behalf, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or Polonius. The “something rotten” reference can also be taken quite literally. There are many deaths in the play, as well as many references to decay. An entire scene in Hamlet is devoted to a graveyard where gravediggers…

the pin means an insignificant cost as pins are usually sold many at a time for one price. Horatio said this to Hamlet when he thinks the ghost is potentially affecting Hamlet. He uses metaphor that the cliff means Hamlet is going to be in danger or dead. It is also foreshadowing that someone will die…

Throughout the play, there have been many deaths and as Act 5 goes on, Hamlet is continually getting one step closer to his own death. At the end of the play, King Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, Queen Gertrude, and Claudius are all dead and Hamlet knows he is about to die as well. Hamlet has been cut by a sword that had poison on the tip of it, and he saw his mother was poisoned and he knows he has been poisoned and is about to die. Fortunately for him, he was able to use the poisoned…

The Tragedy of Hamlet was Shakespeare’s longest and most popular play. One of the major themes throughout the play was the use of deceit or indirection to find out the truth. This was prevalent throughout the play and almost all of the characters succumbed to using deception and lies to find out the truth. None of the characters trusted anything they heard or saw so there was a lot of distrust between them. Due to the amount of deception and distrust going on in the play, it drove the characters…

Hamlet is not as lost and crazy as you may think, instead I believe he is organized and on the ball. Ophelia on the other hand has lost her wits and sadly it overcame her. She at first seemed to just be putting on an act to show her love for Hamlet, but in the end all was lost with her. Hamlet has method to his madness, while Ophelia let her inner thoughts control her until the end. Put yourself in Hamlets shoes, he is in an incredibly hard part of his life right now where he is…

Throughout the character development it looked like he over thinking to much leaving him with many options. In the end one example of this was when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent to Norway and hamlet escaped and while he did that he sent them to their deaths as proven when the first ambassador said, “that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead,” (5.2.364) in addition the most important part of him caring out his plan was when he finally killed his shadow while saying, “ Here, thou…

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 the upcoming show. Class Notes: During class we discussed, the fact that Claudius and Polonius are determined to find the reason for Hamlet's madness. While reading…

As Hamlet sees Claudius by himself. He has the opportunity to strike. He grabs his sword with a tight grip his hands turning red. He brings the long a sharp blade across his upper body to achieve a good strike, and then he rethinks his decision of killing Claudius as he ask God to Forgive his sins. In the play Hamlet, By William Shakespeare, Hamlet wants to acquire revenge for his father's death. He doesn’t believe Claudius deserves to hold the throne of Denmark. He wants to obtain the justice…

In the Shakespearean play, Hamlet, the theme of revenge revolves around the story. The play is difficult to understand without the knowledge of the use of foils. In literature, a foil is another character in a story who contrasts with the main character to highlight one of their attributes. Two characters that shares similarities and differences with Hamlet are Fortinbras and Laertes. Hamlet faces a tough decision when he learns King Claudius kills his father. Should he avenge his father’s death…

will be troubled instantly. There are lots of situations where his over argumentative feeling, that triggers him to be insanely stupid person, but he is super focused and indeed unraveled a hustling truth about the two people who he trust. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, once work for his father, and turn to Hamlet to spy ordered by Claudius because they suspected that Hamlet killed Polonius. Claudius orders the two to continue to spy because Hamlet is a very dangerous person in the town. Now…