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- Hamlet did very much love his father; in fact, he seems to have idolized him. Therefore, even before he meets his father's ghost, he is deeply saddened by his father's death. He is upset as well that his mother remarried so quickly, and he compares Claudius very unfavorably to his father.
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The official story is that Hamlet's father, the king, was stung by a poisonous snake one day while sleeping in the garden. However, when the Ghost appears to Hamlet, he tells him what really...
- Did Hamlet truly love his father in Hamlet? - eNotes.com
Hamlet did very much love his father; in fact, he seems to...
- Hamlet's reactions to the deaths of his father and Ophelia
Hamlet's reactions to his father's and Ophelia's deaths are...
- Did Hamlet truly love his father in Hamlet? - eNotes.com
Hamlet did very much love his father; in fact, he seems to have idolized him. Therefore, even before he meets his father's ghost, he is deeply saddened by his father's death. He is...
- 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...
Oct 3, 2024 · Hamlet's reactions to his father's and Ophelia's deaths are marked by intense grief and profound existential contemplation. His father's murder by Claudius propels him into a...
Claudius urges Hamlet to think of him as a father, reminding the prince that he stands in line to succeed to the throne upon Claudius’s death. With this in mind, Claudius says that he does not wish for Hamlet to return to school at Wittenberg (where he had been studying before his father’s death), as Hamlet has asked to do.
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell: Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, 50: To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
Jun 2, 2020 · When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlet’s father, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king.A spirit who claims to be the ghost of Hamlet’s father describes his murder at the hands of Claudius and demands that Hamlet avenge the killing.
