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Hamlet Essay

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The Tragedy of Hamlet was written by the well known author, William Shakespeare. This is a story about the unraveling events in a kingdom located in Denmark. As big and as the doubled faced dimensions of the castle so was the problems in it. When King Hamlet dies was where everything started to crumble. As the brother Claudius rises up to be king with his new wife Gertrude, (mother of Prince Hamlet and widow of King Hamlet) Prince Hamlet cant bare to stand it. As King Hamlets ghost appears and revels the truth about his death Hamlet decides to take his fathers commands to kill Claudius. As the dimensions of the castle there was more than just King Hamlets wishes Hamlet wanted to avenge Claudius from like is his corruptions and the adjective …show more content…

As the changes in Hamlets persona seem true Claudius start to fear of Hamlet’s insanity. Leading Claudius to create greater self-preoccupation. When Gertrude tells Claudius that Hamlet has killed Polonius, Claudius does not remark nor stops to care that Gertrude the one who was actually present in the same room might have been in danger. But he only thinks that he would have been in danger if he had been in the room as his first reaction words state “ O heavy deed! It had been so with us, had we been there.” (Act lV, Scene 1) When Hamlet returns to Denmark and Laertes is Shocked by news of his fathers death and urge for revenge, Claudius uses his sneaky language and tells Laertes what has happened since he went away. Claudius is ultimately intelligent for his own good. In Act V, scene 2 rather than allowing Laertes to get revenge over Hamlet as he wishes and when he wishes Claudius creates a plan. A plan in which there is not only two methods of killing Hamlet, the sharpened sword and the poison on the blade. Claudius insists on a third plan, the poisoned goblet. This shows his thirst to keep himself in power. Claudius doesn’t care what happens to the other characters around him while his own priorities are lade first which Hamlet definitely disagrees off as he was raised with his fathers …show more content…

Therefore out sometime sister, now out queen, Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state…” ( Act l, scene 2) as his good choice of words everyone in the kingdom accepted his vulgar dession on marring Gertrude but Hamlet. As in many marriages women have the right to accept or decline the marriage, as Gerude proceed this Claudius wishes Hamlet started to distance himself from his own mother. Claudius’s love for Gertrude might have been actually sincere, but it also seems more reasonable that he married her as a strategic move to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of King Hamlet. Not only did Claudius might have used Gertrude to get the thrown he also manipulates Gertrude on thinking and acting the was he wants even if it involves his own son. Hamlet starts questioning his mothers true state “(Let me not think on’t; frailty, thy name is woman!)” (Act l, scene 2) because of Claudius Hamlet lost connection with his own mother and started viewing her as something else as an object as well as all the other women. As mentioned Hamlet must have been close to his mother and loved her at some point in the past. Hamlet apparently had a relationship with Ophelia. However, after Hamlet views towards his mother with the marriage to Claudius right after his fathers death, he loses his trust in women. Which later affects his relationship he once had with Ophelia. Claudius way on using

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