Royalty In Hamlet Research Paper

Hamlet kills Polonius and Gertrude becomes scared as to what is going to happen with Hamlet. Claudius betrays her trust by taking advantage of it and takes matter into his own hands. Claudius solution to the problem is to have Hamlet sent to England, where he is going to be safe from the law and will not have to deal with any consequences for his actions. " O Gertrude, come away! The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch. But we will ship him hence, and this vile deed. We must, with all out majesty and skill, Both countenance and excuse" (4.1.28-32). Claudius makes Gertrude believe he is setting this up because he wants to protect Hamlet. But even though the audience knows the real reason as to why he is doing this. He is sending Hamlet to England to be killed. " By letters congruing to that effect, The present death of Hamlet" (4.3.66-67).

Beyond Claudius’ need for admiration, he also tends to disregard the feelings of people around him. This is shown in a similar way as his need for admiration, being that he kills his brother to gain power. Such a selfish action will obviously impact those around King Hamlet, but Claudius disregard that and simply does it for his own gain. He doesn’t think about how Hamlet’s death will affect Gertrude, young Hamlet, Polonius, or anyone else close to him. In the aftermath of this, instead of helping Hamlet through the hard time following his fathers sudden death, he tells Hamlet he’s not a man for mourning for such a long time. Staying on the topic of the death of a father, Claudius uses Polonius’ death to get Laertes to want to avenge his

This, in turn, exploits Hamlet’s similar flaw of ego and furthers the conflict, but what’s more, it illustrates Claudius’ sheer audacity and lack of repentance. He continues to try to cover up the sin and appease Hamlet into complacency rather than confess and ask for forgiveness. In a mark of pure arrogance, Claudius tells Hamlet to “throw to earth / This unprevailing woe and think of us / As of a father”, conceitedly requesting that Hamlet merely forget the murder and replace his father with the murderer himself (I, ii, 110-112). Similarly, instead of directly confronting Hamlet about his mental condition, the king more or less hires Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on the prince, again cementing his smug mindset. The king does not believe he can be caught or, rather, that Hamlet is competent enough to figure out his plan and foil him. Claudius, too, thinks only of himself after Hamlet’s inadvertent killing of Polonius, pondering “how shall this bloody deed be answered? / It will be laid to us” instead of considering the ramifications of the murder with respect to Hamlet (4.1.17-18). The other two paper-thin traps the king hatches only reinforce his failure to see beyond the apparent; his attempt to deport Hamlet to England and have him killed reeks of treachery and, luckily, Hamlet realizes the king’s subterfuge, crushing the plot and flipping it back on him. Claudius remains steadfast in his efforts to remove Hamlet, going so far as to set up a

An act as appalling as this would never cross the mind of a person with a healthy sense of sanity. Although he committed this dreadful crime, Claudius was good at keeping secrets; nobody ever knew of his sins. “Claudius is socially adept, and his charm is genuine. He can exhibit deep distress over his ‘dear brother’s death’ and admiration for his wife, ‘Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state.’ He knows the value of a great funeral, but quickly turns mourning into celebration and moves on ‘With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage’ to whatever lies ahead” (Claudius). This narcissistic king only cared to bring attention to himself when his kingdom chose to mourn the death of Hamlet. Claudius mourns his brother’s death in public but he only pretends to grieve so that his crime will not seem conspicuous. “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green, and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief , and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe, yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves” (Shakespeare 10,11). Claudius explains that although it is necessary to mourn, life still goes on. He points out the importance of realizing the health and prosperity of himself as the new king, only to take the attention off of the abhorrent tragedy he caused to the kingdom for the sake of gaining power and a

After killing Polonius, Hamlet feel no guilt at all, he acts indifferently. The audience can evidence how appearances and reality come back into play when Queen Gertrude cries out, “O, what a rash and bloody deed is this” (Act 3, scene 4, page 106). Hamlet, responds without repentance, “A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother.” (Act 3, scene 4, page 106). After this statement made by Hamlet, there is a twist in the scene. Instead of the scene being centered towards the death of Polonius, it becomes centered towards Hamlet’s obsession and hatred towards his mother for betraying him and his father by the rapid and opportune marriage to

To start, King Claudius repeatedly generated specific plans, such as to have “in quick determination thus set it down: [Hamlet] shall with speed to England” to which Claudius knew would be for Hamlet to be killed (Shakespeare 3.2.182-83). This scheme alongside his collaboration with Laertes to devise a plot to kill Hamlet in Act IV, Scene VII, efficiently was akin to Hamlet’s own premeditated plans to “have [the] players play something like the murder of [his] father before [his] uncle,” observe his uncle during the process, and have “the play [be] the thing wherein [he will] catch the conscience of the King” (Shakespeare 2.2.623-25, 633-34). Furthermore, both Claudius and Hamlet, after murdering someone, pertaining to old King Hamlet and Polonius, respectively, showed sparse grief or contrition as King Claudius stated “[his] crown, [his] own ambition, and [his] queen” all resulted from murdering his brother and thus, was not willing to relinquish those perquisites (Shakespeare 3.3.59). In congruence, Hamlet did not show much immediate regret or remorse after slaying Polonius as he declared Polonius a “wretched, rash, intruding fool” who was not where he should have been (Shakespeare 3.4.38). Although Hamlet and Claudius

This fills Hamlet with eager to take action. " Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. " In order for hamlet's father to be at rest, Hamlet needs to complete his goal. Polonius should have stayed out of the royal family's drama. Laertes is ambiguous about Hamlet's action, on the other hand hamlet knows exactly why Claudius killed his

Another reason why the killing of Claudius is justified is the fact he has directly caused the mental state we see hamlet in. Hamlets main worries are the death of his father; caused by Claudius. His mother marrying Claudius and finally everyone moving on so quick from the death of old Hamlet. (Not directly Claudius but being called a little girl didn’t help) All of this complied has pushed hamlet to the brink of suicide and to repair his mental state he feels he must revenge his

Are Hamlet’s actions justified? Hamlet was involved both directly, and indirectly with the deaths of Ophelia, Claudius Queen Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.(McKeown, Retold by Adam., and Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. The Young Reader's Shakespeare: Hamlet. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2003.) As soon as Queen Gertrude remarried, Hamlet started scheming against Claudius and wasn’t thinking father’s murderer, Claudius, but he unjustly killed royalty and should be prosecuted as such no matter his social status/rank. (McKeown, Retold by Adam., and Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. The Young Reader's Shakespeare: Hamlet. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2003.)The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, (despite that fact that he has murderous tendencies) son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father’s brother and

In all honesty, I am still very confused why Hamlet decides not to kill Claudius. Hamlet has spent his time and energy having the actors reenact a play of his father’s death to test Claudius to see if his reactions mirrors one of a man guilty of murder. He instructs Horatio to keep an eye on the king’s body language and reaction. (3.ii.94-95). As the play starts Hamlet receives the answer he has been looking for.

In the play, Hamlet, composed by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare bestows Claudius’ letter to the King of England, and shows his progressing emotions to convince him to kill Lord Hamlet. Throughout the play Lord Hamlet came to the conclusion that Claudius, his uncle and successor of King Hamlet's throne, killed King Hamlet. The consequence of his findings was a plan to kill Claudius, which mistakenly led to Polonius’ death. In result, because Claudius was unable to punish Hamlet he sought to have him sent to England… to be killed.

Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare shows the inherent complications and unintended conflict between rank and social class by making the members of the lower class experience hardships and conflict at the hands of the royal family and upper class. The idea of social class distinction is very prevalent in Hamlet and how each character interacts with every other character. Despite the fact that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet centuries before the Industrial Revolution and the rise a large divide between the one percent and the bourgeoisie, it was still written during a time of class struggle. During the time of Shakespeare, the feudal system of land-ownership was in full effect, and the people struggled for freedom from their monarcho-fascist oppressors.

10. “Well, look how you play me—as if you knew exactly where to put your fingers, to blow the mystery out of me, playing all the octaves of my range—and yet you can’t even produce music from this little instrument? My God, do you think I’m easier to manipulate than a pipe? You can push my buttons, but you can’t play me for a fool. “ (3.2. 70-77)

Write a review of Hamlet based on a viewing, whereby you ponder the question of the text's enduring relevance. A news feature based on the play where having seen the play, you analyse why the play remains relevant to modern audiences. In itself becomes a text of textual integrity. How do people value it? Discuss some aspects that you would argue to allow the text to view it as something engaging and valuable. Hamlet Through Time Hamlet. Not just your typical revenge tragedy, but something deeper, and more than able to rival the likes of 'Desperate Housewives', despite it's age. What the audience gets with the play, Hamlet, is a storyline that is complex and intricate, a plot that is interwoven with tales of love, betrayal, murder and

At the end of act III scene 3, Claudius decides to send Hamlet off to England because of his strange behavior. Claudius could have done this earlier in the play, which would have made it hard for Hamlet to find out that Claudius murdered King Hamlet. But he only chooses to do this now. I think this goes to show Claudius’s bad judgment and his arrogance. He seemed to think that Hamlet would never find out about the murder and that’s why he kept him close. In addition, it is interesting to see how stubborn Polonius is. Even after eavesdropping in on the conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia, he still believes that Hamlet’s madness is caused by Ophelia leaving him. He is so set on his opinion, and I wonder if this trait of his is going to play a larger role in the future. Also, shouldn’t Polonius get his head cut off for being wrong?