Presentation of Hamlet in Act 2 Scene 2 and 3 in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

 Act 3 Scene 1:  In this scene, King Claudius questions Rosencrantz and Guilderstern if they have found the reason for Hamlet’s strange behaviour, but report that he does not reveal his thoughts. King Claudius and Polonius decide to spy on Hamlet to uncover the cause of his craziness. They command Ophelia to converse with Hamlet while they overhear the conversation. However, Hamlet becomes aware of this and denies ever loving Ophelia as she had betrayed him and his trust. His rage towards Ophelia confuses King Claudius as it makes it harder for him to understand his son.

Hamlet is arguably the greatest dramatic character ever created. From the moment we meet the crestfallen Prince we are enraptured by his elegant intensity. Shrouded in his inky cloak, Hamlet is a man of radical contradictions -- he is reckless yet cautious, courteous yet uncivil, tender yet ferocious. He meets his father's death with consuming outrage and righteous indignation, yet shows no compunction when he himself is responsible for the deaths of the meddling Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the pontificating lord chamberlain, Polonius. He uses the fragile and innocent Ophelia as an outlet for his disgust towards the Queen, and cannot comprehend that his own vicious words have caused her insanity. Hamlet is full of faults. But

In Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet we are faced with the soliloquy that contains one of the most famous lines from English literature: “To be, or not to be – that is the question” (III.i.57). This passage tends to show a large amount of evidence of the theme “Action vs. Contemplation”. Through poetic devices, tone, and sensory imagery we are able to analyze the theme and Hamlet’s tragic flaw: indecisiveness/inability to act.

Hamlet has been affected that most by not just losing his father but also his mind. After putting on the play Hamlet must go up to talk to his mother where he ask her “Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear /Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?” (Hamlet: III.iv.66-67), hamlet does not understand how his mother could be so blind and betray his father, the real king, for Claudius. Polonius king Claudius’s right hand man is the first person to be murdered in the play and from there one by one the whole court begging’s to rapidly decay. Followed by Ophelia who has been so depressed by this consistent seeking of revenge and personal gain that she chooses to take her own life. The court has been forever tainted and Laetres wanting “To cut his throat i’ th’ church” (Hamlet:IV.vii.144) shows how they have been blinded by revenge that they no longer fear God, as long as they can get what they

Hamlet is considered to be Shakespeare's most famous play. The play is about Prince Hamlet and his struggles with the new marriage of his mother, Gertrude, and his uncle and now stepfather, King Claudius about only two months after his father’s death. Hamlet has an encounter with his father, Old King Hamlet, in ghost form. His father accuses Claudius of killing him and tells Hamlet to avenge his death. Hamlet is infuriated by this news and then begins his thoughts on what to do to get revenge. Hamlet and Claudius are contrasting characters. They do share similarities, however, their profound differences are what divides them.Hamlet was portrayed as troubled, inactive, and impulsive at times. Hamlet is troubled by many things, but the main source of his problems come from the the death of his father. “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, or that the everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter” (Act 1, Scene 2). In this scene, Hamlet is contemplating suicide, which is caused by the death of his father and the new marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius. This scene shows the extent of how troubled Hamlet is. Even though Hamlet’s father asked him to avenge his death, Hamlet is very slow to act on this throughout the play. “Now might I do it pat. Now he is a-praying. And now I’ll do ’t. And so he goes to heaven. And so am I revenged.—That would be scanned. A villain kills my father, and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven” (Act 3, Scene 3). This scene shows King Claudius praying, while Hamlet is behind him drawing his sword but decides not to kill

Thus, Shakespeare’s play Hamlet uses both themes of revenge and tragedy, as they are both used in the main parts of the story. It is up to the reader if he or she wants to interpret this story as a tragedy or revenge, but it is most probably a mix between the two. Hamlet was, and is still a titanic part of our culture, and literary history, and will most likely still be analyzed in the future for its rich, and convoluted plot. Hamlet is a unique piece of literature, and will be regarded for a long time as one of the treasures of English

            In Act 2, the King and Queen continue to try and determine why Hamlet is acting the way he is.   They request his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find out what is wrong. Polonius learns from Ophelia that Hamlet could be "mad for thy love?" (2.1.84), but Ophelia is not sure of it.  Polonius delivers his opinion to Claudius and Gertrude in which he states that Hamlet:

As the play opens, we see Hamlet depressed from his father’s death and angered by the fact that his mother married his uncle only two months after his father’s death. Then, once Hamlet meets the ghost of his father, who reveals that Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered him, he is overcome with rage and vows to take revenge while putting on an antic disposition to fool his uncle into thinking he is crazy, so that his uncle will not get suspicious. During Act 3, we see Hamlet continue to focus mainly on revenge while still maintaining an antic disposition. By now, everyone except Horatio and Marcellus, who know about his feigned madness, believes that Hamlet is truly insane; some, including Claudius, thinks there is no way to help him. In Scene 4 of Act 3, we see Hamlet confronting his mother about her marriage to his Claudius. While Hamlet try to make her see what she did is wrong, she takes it as a threat and as more proof that he is insane and calls for help, which in turn makes Polonius (who was hiding behind the tapestry) call for help as well. Without a moment of hesitation, Hamlet stabs Polonius before he looked to see who it was. While his mother is distraught at this sight, Hamlet seems fine, and wants to know who he killed. Once he sees that it is Polonius, he says, “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune. Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.”

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, while Hamlet is the protagonist, the main antagonist is arguably Polonius. He is portrayed as a cunning, bothersome character who is always submissive and obedient to Claudius, the king of Denmark and also the uncle of Hamlet, as he is the councillor of the king. Yet, at the same time, he is not completely malicious as he is a caring father for his son and daughter, Laertes and Ophelia. In Act 3, scene 4, Polonius is murdered by Hamlet, who mistakens him for Claudius. This death of Polonius is the most controversial death in the play in that some argue he deserved to die for his wrongdoings to Hamlet, and some claim the opposite that he did not deserve to die.

If Hamlet were to kill Claudius when he had a perfect opportunity, he wouldn't have killed Polonius, and in turn get sent to England, as well as Ophelia would have never gone

Hamlet finding out about this terrible act had brought him distress and promised his father that he would get revenge for his murder. He first needed hard proof though if his uncle truly did kill his father, just in case the ghost he was talking to was actually a demon. To make sure no one thinks he is up to anything, he begins to act as if he had gone mad. No one knew of this plan other than Horatio his best friend. After a while of Hamlet acting out of sort King Claudius was determined to find out what was wrong with Hamlet ,and he was having this type of behavior. Claudius sends two of Hamlet’s old friends Guildensten and Rosencratez to seek out information on Hamlet of why he has been the way he has been of recent. Which Hamlet soon realizes that he can not trust either of them. He even gives them a chance to admit of what they are doing. Also Polonius believes that Hamlet has fallen into madness because of rejected love from his daughter Ophelia. His reasoning of this is because One of the few acts of madness he displays to the people around him involved Ophelia which frighten the Hell out of her. Which Hamlet realized that could blow his cover of acting mad and he couldn’t afford. The way that he is acting was for the

You have to watch more Jerry Springer! (I’m not really serious). I like your observation about Hamlet’s revenge not being up to the reader. But I wonder if Shakespeare intended for it to be, letting readers work through Hamlet’s situation for themselves and decide what they would do in his position?

All of his life Hamlet has been surrounded by violence, beginning with the gruesome wars fought by his father the king, in which he killed many to gain more land. The first impactful death for Hamlet in the play is that of his father, King Hamlet. The death of his father hurts Hamlet more than anything else has before. This sorrowful event is topped by Hamlet learning his father was murdered by his uncle, Claudius, who has sneakily taken Hamlet’s rightful throne. This breaks Hamlet. Once learning this information, we immediately see the personality change that occurs to Hamlet. He starts to treat those around him, friend or foe, crudely and almost peasant like. He also starts to question his own existence. “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die—to sleep.” (3.1.64-68). Hamlet seems hopeless at this point, and lost in his own madness. He wants to die, but cares more about avenging his father’s death. Hamlet's madness leads him to have a crude confrontation with his mother. Not knowing that there was a man listening in,Hamlet almost abuses his mother until she calls out for help at which time the man listening in responds to her outcry. Hamlet then strikes his sword into the man who is behind the curtain, hoping it is Claudius, but instead it is Polonius, Claudius’s advisor. Polonius dies from the wound and Hamlet drags his body with him as he exits. This is another death with another mad response from Hamlet. His father’s murder, Ophelia’s suicide, and him killing Polonius, causes Hamlet to feel as though everyone around him is dying tragically, making him madder every

In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, a young prince of Denmark, named Hamlet, seeks to uncover the truth about his father’s death. As the play progresses, Hamlet’s father’s ghost reveals to him that his uncle, Claudius, was the one who actually murdered him. After discovering the truth, Hamlet promises to avenge his father’s murderer. In the play, the theme of appearance vs. reality is a continuous one. Many characters in the tragedy that appear to be innocent and honest are actually incestuous and evil in reality. The most prominent characters in this play who are not what they appear to be are King Claudius, Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. William Shakespeare’s

Shakespeare's Hamlet is filled with murder, revenge, and betrayal. The way the characters go about their revengeful murder says a lot about them. Claudius is a manipulating coward: he poisoned his own brother in his sleep in order to obtain the throne. Hamlet is completely indecisive: he spends majority of the play debating whether not to kill Claudius, when he would do it, and how he would do it. As soon as Laertes hears of his father’s death, he leaves Paris and marches an angry mob into the castle to demand blood. The methods in which the protagonist, antagonist, and foil murder others reflects back on their true in our character.