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In the challenge, Laertes will put poison on the end of his weapon so that when he slashes Hamlet it will kill him. To guarantee Hamlet's death, Claudius poisons the wine that is set out for Hamlet to drink during the competition. Unfortunately, Gertrude decides to toast Hamlet's success and drinks some of the poisoned wine. Hamlet receives a slash with the poisoned tip. When he realizes that his mother is dying, he figures out that this has been a trap. Hamlet stabs Laertes and Claudius with the poisoned blade and forces Claudius to drink from the poisoned cup. In the end all of the main characters - Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius and Hamlet are dead. Earlier, Ophelia and Polonius died. Horatio is the only character left to speak to Fortinbras as he enters on the bloody scene. Fortinbras is then made the new king.
5. Claudius sets in motion all of the sorrows that come about in the play. It is his killing of his brother and marriage to his sister-in-law and other rash behavior that create much of the problems in the play. Claudius' actions put the whole plot in motion. He also contributes greatly to the final scene by plotting with Laertes. Hamlet could have been more honest with his mother and more upfront with his actions which would have prevented the deaths in the end scene. So even though Claudius starts the problems, Hamlet helps keep them going throughout the play.
6. Men are basically people who want to...
However, something very small can distract people and make them do evil things. For instance, Claudius may have just been a little jealous of his brother's power, but then this flaw kept growing and getting worse until it drove him to commit evil acts. Hamlet also wants to be good and correct the evils that have been done, but through his inability to act, he adds to the evil actions of the play. Other characters also are led astray and commit evil acts like Laertes and Gertrude. In the end, they both realized that they had done wrong. It is their ability to recognize evil that actually makes them basically good characters. They know right from wrong.
7. When Shakespeare wrote this play, England had recently changed from the Catholic Church to the Church of England. There are certainly elements of the Catholic religion still in the play such as Hamlet's father who refers to terrible things that happen to him in purgatory. Also, after the play within the play scene, Hamlet wants to kill the king, but won't because the king is praying. If Hamlet killed him then, the king's soul would be free of sin and he would go straight to Heaven. Hamlet wants him to suffer. The Catholic religion still today believes that if a person prays and is forgiven, they will go to Heaven regardless of the sins committed. Most religions have a sense of Heaven and Hell and how people get into them based on behavior and actions.
i., 124). What is clear is that Ophelia bears a certain significance to Hamlet that he never comes fully to grips with, and that is never fully revealed in the text. The multitude of emotions and relationships that Hamlet bears towards Ophelia, like those that exist between he and his mother and between he and Claudius, lead to complex and sometimes conflicting motivations for hamlet, causing him to remain
Description Hamlet is one of William Shakespeare’s best-known plays. Although written in England, the play centers on the life of the titular Danish prince. In the first Act of the play, Hamlet meets the ghost of his dead father. The ghost tells Hamlet that he, the King, was murdered by Claudius—the King’s brother and Hamlet’s uncle. Although the information came from an incredible source—a supernatural creature—Hamlet is not the only one
He does however, have a reason for his treatment of these people. In the case of the king's courtiers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they can be seen as plotting against Hamlet and being 'two faced' in their treatment of him" (Hamlet). From the above evidence, it is clear that due to the consequences of the actions of characters, lives are destroyed, which can be seen from the direction of the stage.
Of course, Hamlet would then likely assume the throne, but Hamlet seems to have little interest in ruling, as he scoffs when Guildenstern and Rosencrantz say that it is his frustrated ambition that makes him melancholic. Hamlet is a rational and philosophical individual, hence his constant self-searching about the nature of the ghost, about the possibility of an afterlife that no traveler may return (if the ghost is a
..render up myself...Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night...And for the day confined to fast in fires, / Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature/Are burnt and purged away." (I.5). At first, Hamlet believes the ghost is from Purgatory because of the vividness of these images. Then Hamlet constructs a test for the ghost as he worries: "the devil hath power/to assume a pleasing shape;
Hamlet Annotated Bibliography Cook, Patrick J. Cinematic Hamlet: the Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP. 2011. Print. This book focuses on the many versions of Hamlet that have been made for the silver screen. The play by William Shakespeare is one of the most frequently filmed works and each version of the story has a unique perspective. Director, screenwriter, and of course actor each influence the overall