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Hamlet and Claudius are probably the only characters that feel at all guilty in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Claudius's guilt is more like worry over his eternal salvation, or lack of it.. Hamlet ...
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count 265 myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. HAMLET. Oh God, I could be trapped inside a nutshell and consider myself a king of infinite space, if only I didn’t have bad dreams. GUILDENSTERN.
Jul 25, 2020 · King Hamlet’s death has been avenged but at a cost of eight lives: Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencranz, Guildenstern, Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius, and Prince Hamlet. Order is reestablished but only by Denmark’s sworn enemy. Shakespeare’s point seems unmistakable: Honor and duty that command revenge consume the guilty and the innocent alike.
- Summary: Act I, Scene V
- Summary: Act II, Scene I
- Analysis: Act I, Scene v–Act II, Scene I
In the darkness, the ghost speaks to Hamlet, claiming to be his father’s spirit, come to rouse Hamlet to revenge his death, a “foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.25). Hamlet is appalled at the revelation that his father has been murdered, and the ghost tells him that as he slept in his garden, a villain poured poison into his ear—the very villain...
Polonius dispatches his servant Reynaldo to France with money and written notes for Laertes, also ordering him to inquire about and spy on Laertes’ personal life. He gives him explicit directions as to how to pursue his investigations, then sends him on his way. As Reynaldo leaves, Opheliaenters, visibly upset. She tells Polonius that Hamlet, unkem...
The ghost’s demand for Hamlet to seek revenge upon Claudius is the pivotal event of Act I. It sets the main plot of the play into motion and leads Hamlet to the idea of feigning madness, which becomes his primary mode of interacting with other people for most of the next three acts, as well as a major device Shakespeare uses to develop his characte...
Jun 2, 2020 · Hamlet hopes that when the players stage The Murder of Gonzago for the court, he can determine whether Claudius is guilty of King Hamlet’s death. Act 3, scene 1 After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report their failure to find the cause of Hamlet’s madness, Polonius places Ophelia where he and Claudius may secretly observe a meeting between her and Hamlet.
He resolves to devise a trap for Claudius, forcing the king to watch a play whose plot closely resembles the murder of Hamlet’s father; if the king is guilty, he thinks, he will surely show some visible sign of guilt when he sees his sin reenacted on stage. Then, Hamlet reasons, he will obtain definitive proof of Claudius’s guilt.
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The extent to which Gertrude feels guilt is more ambiguous. In Act 2, Scene 2, she tells Claudius that Hamlet’s disturbed behaviour may have been caused by her and Claudius’ “o’er-hasty marriage”. Gertrude is not given the chance to develop this idea, but the audience has perhaps been given a glimpse of Gertrude’s guilt over her ...
