When Was King Hamlet, Young Hamlet's Father?

Allowing herself to continually feel her grief without support and guidance causes Ophelia to lose her mind. King Claudius says of her, “O, this is the poison of deep grief: it springs/ All from her father’s death…; Poor Ophelia/ Divided from herself and her fair judgement,/ Without the which we are pictures”(4.5.74-75,83-83) Without her father and his ability to reason and tell her what to do, Ophelia loses the little control she has over herself. Previously, she could rely on Polonius to speak for her, but her only support is gone, and her coping strategy is ineffective and detrimental. By being separated from “herself and her fair judgement”, Ophelia is no longer herself, and the girl who she used to be has been destroyed.

When Hamlets father speaks to him and tells him to speak to his mother, Hamlet immediately obeys him. He respects his father and loves him enough to listen to him and stop fighting with his mother. It shows that no matter the flaws he has with his mother he would throw them out just to please his father. Hamlet has proven himself in many ways that he would do anything for his father no matter what the circumstance was.

     Similarities are an important part of being a foil. One similarity that Hamlet and Ophelia share are that they both are children of controlling parents. [SV - 1] Hamlet's father, who is murdered, comes back as a ghost to tell him who his murderer is. This news is his father's way of controlling him from

When a parent dies, you need someone to fall back on. This person helps you get through it and make you feel loved. If you do not have someone there to help you through this time, you often turn to other things like acting crazy and wanting to take your own life because you feel as if you are not loved and you want to get rid of the pain. Hamlet loved his father and his death took a big part of his life away from him. His mother, Gertrude, needed to spend time with him, to show him he was loved and someone cared about him. Gertrude was not there for Hamlet the way she should have been, and because of this he began to act like he was crazy. Instead of spending time with her son, Gertrude was busy getting married to the late Kings

As a result of every other aspect in Ophelia’s life being out of her control, she

Yet to Hamlet, Ophelia is no better than another Gertrude: both are tender of heart but submissive to the will of importunate men, and so are forced into uncharacteristic vices. Both would be other than what they are, and both receive Hamlet’s exhortations

Hamlet is very distraught and grief stricken for the death of his father, the King of Denmark. As well, he is upset with his mother's quick marriage to his uncle Claudius, who is now King. Hamlet is emotional and melancholy, and he considers suicide because he wonders

With the overall powerful and God like perspective of his father, Hamlet develops the idealistic understanding that a king should to be loyal and morally in the right. “ so excellent a king: that was, to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother.. of impious stubbornness tis unmanly grief.” ( Ham, 1:2:60) “O most wicked speed, to post/ With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!/ It is not nor it cannot come to good/ But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue” Comment1: Thereby, Hamlet represents his innocence and overall admiring his behaviour by comparing his father to the gods, saying that his father was like the “ Hyperion” the sun god, the symbolizes is god like he admired his father as a young child would admire any parents, not looking at their faults or his mistakes, being oblivious to the situations that he went through. Hamlet truly projects his young innocent nature by only seeing the good in people, but in this case only seeing the good in this father stating that he was a pure “ excellent king” further process that he only choose to see or appear his father in one point of view. As for Claudius also stating that Hamlet is also just but a child as he is handling the grief as child like and how he should be more manly in how he handles the situation. Hamlet’s admiration for his father is clear. Hamlet believes that he is irreplaceable. Ironic comment because he will meet his father again.

Grief is a common theme in these two tragedies due to the constant sense of death throughout them. There are both similarities and differences in each work on how the characters react to grief in their life situations. The first similarity between the two works is that grief is the tragic result of a loss of a close family member through the violent act of murder. Both King Hamlet and Susie Salmon were killed. Secondly, some characters in both works react similarly to grief. This is seen through the way Jack Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Hamlet and Queen Gertrude react to death. Jack Salmon and Hamlet experienced anger and difficulty dealing with their loss. Both were devastated and showed emotional outbursts. Abigail Salmon and Queen Gertrude experienced denial and chose to not deal with grief. Abigail abandoned her family and Queen Gertrude moved on with her life marrying Claudius. Another similarity between the two works is that grief starts a mission of revenge. Jack Salmon and Hamlet wanted to avenge the death of their loved one by seeking revenge on their killers. They were obsessed with this mission and were committed to the same outcome. Aside from the similarities between the works, the main difference between the two works is the way that the murderers were killed. The grief felt by Jack and Hamlet impacted their actions throughout the story. Hamlet grieves throughout the play and takes

In this case Ophelia is taking his fathers dead very seriously. She has a lost her mind, and she has not find out yet that the murder of her father , more than anything is her beloved Hamlet; in act 3, scene 4, lines 24 through 31, we can appreciate that when he hears noise behind the arras, he draws his sword and stabs it through the arras, killing Ophelia's father, Polonius, When Ophelia claims “ He is dead and gone, lady. He is dead and gone….” ( 4.5.25) show us that she misses her father and she cannot forget him. However, the murder of Hamlet's father is his uncle, someone of his own family. Hamlet did not know who was the murder or the way his father was murdered , until his own father's ghost appears to him and says to him “... ‘Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me”(1.5.35-36) “... The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”. (1.5. 39-40). This explains to us that the murder is his uncle because he is now marrying his mother, becoming the new

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a kind of madness ultimately infects everyone, leading to an ending in which almost every major character is dead. Two of these maddened characters are Hamlet and Ophelia, who also share a love for each other. But though their irrational behavior is often similar and their fates alike, one is truly mad while the other is not.

 In similar fashion does Ophelia manifest great familial affection, agreeing to comply with the advice of her brother Laertes: “I shall the effect of this good lesson keep / As watchman to my heart.”  When her father, Polonius, makes inquiry regarding the “private time” which Hamlet has been giving to Ophelia, she replies unreservedly, “He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders / Of his affection to me,” and elaborates mightily on the subject. Polonius insists that she “from this time forth” not “give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet,” and Ophelia dutifully complies with his wishes: “I shall obey, my lord.” She later even gives him her love-letters from Hamlet. When she acts as a decoy so that Polonius and Claudius can observe the prince, resulting in Ophelia’s chastisement by the protagonist, she nevertheless keeps him as the main focus in her life: “O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!” Her love for brother, father, boyfriend, and others generally, override her love of self. Her respect for the opinions of immediate family is greater than her respect for her own opinions even in the matter of her courtship.

Ophelia was known as a sweet, innocent, and more importantly obedient girl. Yet, being the obedient, daughter she was, she separated from Hamlet by orders of her father and helped him spy on Hamlet for the King. Being in love with Hamlet, this was a difficult thing for Ophelia to do, although, not until her father’s death does the reader really see Ophelia in a state of madness. When she talks to Gertrude she begins to sing, “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone;/ At his head a grass-green turf, / At his heels a stone” (4.5.29-32). The way Ophelia acted seemed obviously uncharacteristic of her, and portrayed a mental breakdown that ultimately leads her to take her own life. This tragic event marked a turning point in the play due to the fact that she wasn’t murdered, but a casualty of the feud between Hamlet and Claudius. Both of them bared responsibility for the murder of her father, which lead to her decision to commit suicide. Additionally, losing the love of Hamlet may have caused her to feel alone and in such a dark place it made her feel suicide was the only option. In conclusion, Ophelia’s death was caused due to the backlash of Hamlet and Claudius feud and the responsibility for her death should be placed on both of

All those encounters with Ophelia happen under unfortunate conditions. Claudius’s test takes place right after Hamlet delivers his ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, voicing suicidal thoughts. Additionally, he cannot be honest with Ophelia as he must know of her obedience to her father Polonius and has to maintain his madness-cover. With regard to this, one could argue that Ophelia joining a nunnery would keep her safe and away from the court, as Hamlet does not and cannot know how his plans for revenge will play out. His hostile attitude towards her can thus be seen as an attempt to alienate her, again, to have her out of the way for his more imminent goal of avenging the murder of his father.

Hamlet is prominent for his role as a judge to evaluate the actions or significance of other characters, and remark them with respect in the play. Hamlet is courteous to respect his parents who are the cause of his existence and for his good upbringing. When Gertrude prays Hamlet, " I pray thee, stay with us. Go not to Wittenberg ", he obeys her advice and withdraws from his proposal of leaving Denmark (I,ii,119). Even though Gertrude disappoints Hamlet, he agrees to her plea, as the mother-son bond is strong enough to endure Hamlet's annoyance at Gertrude. Hamlet sets his mother at the position of authority in his life. Not only this proves that Hamlet