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I Am But Mad North West Hamlet Analysis

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(Team, Shmoop Editorial, October 5, 2009) “I am but mad north-north-west: When the wind is southerly I knew a hawk from a handsaw”, said Hamlet. The brilliant writer who wrote the play Hamlet was William Shakespeare. The most important characters in Hamlet are Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Horatio, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Claudius killed King Hamlet by putting poison into his ear, Hamlet then finds out about his father death and wants to seek revenge, Hamlet’s father appears to him as a “Ghost”, telling Hamlet who really killed him, and that he wants revenge for his murder. Hamlets sets up Claudius by putting on a play showing exactly how Claudius killed King Hamlet, Claudius gets disturbed by this and tells them to shut down the play. Claudius then sent Hamlet to England to get killed but he is captured by pirates and he changes the letter and actually tells the King of England to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet then arrives back in Denmark, because of these events, Claudius and Laertes are forced to kill hamlet in a fencing match, Laertes and Hamlet fight and they both end up dying, and so does Claudius and Gertrude and the land is left to Fortinbras.

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