Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The time passes is about three or four months. It is because Hamlet’s father dead is over two months ago. “But two months dead-nay, not so much, not two.” ( 1 : 2 : 138 ) Furthermore, Hamlet’s mother also remarried within a month after that. “Within a month…She married.” ( 1 : 2 : 153-156 ) Ophelia is upset by something Hamlet did. She is so frightened and shocked, thus hurriedly tells his father that Hamlet enters her room dressed in weird. Hamlet stares at him and then leave without saying…

from the royal family. However, as the play unfurls, the line between his stress and craziness does seem to cross as Hamlet’s anxiety turns into madness. Hamlet’s alleged insanity all starts with grief over the death of his father. King Hamlet is dead at the beginning of the play but his ghost has returned from hell to warn Hamlet about foul play. Hamlet’s grief then turns into anger when he encounters his father’s ghost on top of the castle’s tower one dark night. During this strange encounter…

The play Hamlet has many important events and plot twists, many of them being Hamlet’s various changes in conscious and his mental state. While each revelation has its own importance in their own way, I think two of his most important epiphanies are when he realizes his uncle truly is responsible for his father’s death. The first occurs when his father’s ghost appears to him. It’s just after twelve at night, the fog is dense, and it’s freezing outside as he walks with Horatio and Marcellus.…

As the old saying goes, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,”. That is a well known-saying because it addresses something that everyone has to end up dealing with at one point or another. Revenge has been around for as long as anyone can remember. At some point in time, everyone has tried to get revenge on another person. There is something in humans that makes them want to avenge people that have done them wrong in any way. There are always times where…

behind the arras in his mother’s bedroom. Upon hearing a noise coming from the arras, Hamlet stabbed Polonius with his rapier, killing him. After Polonius’ death, Hamlet did not tell anyone where the body was kept. Rosencrantz asked Hamlet, “What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?” (Act IV, Scene II, line 4). Hamlet answered, “Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin” (Act IV, Scene II, line 5). This is proof of how Hamlet’s refusal to give the body connects to his madness. Despite…

Til Death Do Us Apart. (The Major Theme of Death in Act Five) In act five there is quite a bit of talk about death and how it slowly narrows down to Hamlet’s death. There are steps that lead down to the tragedy of all the deaths, which is the queen’s death and the king’s death. Which was supposed to be Hamlet that dies at the very end but there is a major plot twister. To start out he is playing a game which does not end very well and then Hamlet shows up which he was supposed to be killed in…

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet lost his father and has been depressed ever since. His uncle Claudius took over the throne and married Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. One day a ghost, Hamlet’s dead father, told him how Claudius killed him by putting poison into his ear. Hamlet seeks revenge for his dead father and wants to kill Claudius for his crime. Hamlet deals with many adversities with his family, friends, and himself. His father was killed by Claudius who married Gertrude and took…

his family calls him home to Denmark, from school in Germany, to attend his father's funeral, and society portrays him as someone who is going mad. Upon arriving, he is shocked to find that his mother has already remarried his Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother. He is confused at first, tittering on the brink of insanity, but does not ever go crazy. Although he believes he gets orders to kill Claudius from his Father (the ghost), he persuades his mother to become an ally, and he takes…

Throughout the play the reader notices that the main character, Hamlet, has a very noticeable mental illness.Having spent time analysing exactly what this mental illness is, I have a strong belief that it could be considered bipolar disorder. Although many could see other illness fitting with Hamlet, bipolar disorder is the most apparent and noticeable. According to the mayo clinic the formal definition of bipolar disorder is “formerly called manic depression, is a mental health condition that…

late Middle Ages. He becomes depressed after having been called home to Denmark from school in Germany to attend his father's funeral. He finds out, in devesastation, his mother, Queen Gertrude, already remarried with Claudius, the brother of the now dead King Hamlet. Hamlet looks at the situation as a foul and incestuous disaster. Additionally, Hamlet was called to be his father's heir to throne, not Claudius. Hamlet quickly turns insane and begins wishing for his own death, putting an act on…