Claudius expresses his thoughts on Hamlet to many people including Gertrude: “His liberty is full of threats to us all” (iv.i.14). Hamlet makes attempts to expose Claudius for murdering his father by putting on a play that mirrors the murder and he shames his mother for marrying Claudius. After seeing the play and hearing of Polonius' murder, Claudius felt even stronger about Hamlet being a threat. In order to prevent Hamlet from convincing everyone Claudius should not be king. He tells the people around him that Hamlet has gone mad and must leave.
The next night Hamlet was on lookout for the ghost. The ghost told him that Claudius killed him by putting poison in his ear. Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius thinking it was Claudius; he also killed Laertes (Polonius’s son). Did Hamlet have a reason for his actions? The treatment of Gertrude, treatment of Ophelia, delaying and killing of Claudius is yet to be determined.
Hamlet stabs Polonius through the curtain in the Queen’s room, thinking that was stabbing Claudius. He did not know who he was stabbing because the curtain was in the way. In the film, the curtain is gigantic, so Hamlet cannot tell exactly where Polonius is. He manages to hit Polonius, and the sword is showed moving up and down as Polonius is dying. The murder of Polonius shows Gertrude that her son is truly insane because Hamlet murdered Polonius in cold
The first victim is Polonius, Hamlet thought it was Claudius behind the arras and took his chance to strike and he clearly did. “How now! A rat?” Hamlet mistook Polonius for Claudius and his automatic instinct was to stab him.
One night after the burial of their son, Mr.White woke up looking at his wife dozing off. He gently urges her to go back to bed, but she refused and suddenly cries out looking for the monkey's paw and insists on wishing her son back to life. He tried to explain about the situation but she still keeps on wishing that for their son to come back to life. Nevertheless he still went to get the paw, when suddenly a strange aura was felt inside the house. He felt a cold touch on his shoulders and heard a soft voice assuring him that he's going to be alright, living life without regrets and full of happiness.
The plot and majority of the play shows us an intimate side of Hamlet where he is planning the murder of Claudius. “Hamlet did not lose his mind, but found it, in the shock of catastrophic revelation, and it the excitement --almost the exhilaration-- of that discovery, he forgot a crime and ignored a duty” (Firkins 394). Hamlet’s soliloquies become more rational as the play continues. He starts the first one wanting to commit suicide, but during the seventh, he decides against it. The discovery of his father’s murderer turns Hamlets from a depressed young man into a vengeful but careful creature.
There are multiple incidents throughout the play in which Claudius’ selfishness and self-preserving nature is reflected; however, the most apparent ones are the multiple attempts to murder his nephew, Hamlet. If Claudius had been less concerned with gaining power in Denmark, he would not have been motivated to kill his brother and could have pursued an increase in personal power through more morally correct actions. Claudius’ instinct for self-preservation was so strong that it led to his self-destruction. In the Elizabethan view and also the modern day view, the audience would be outraged if such a character like Claudius would be allowed to live considering all of the destructive outcomes he caused throughout the
Hamlet eventually kills Claudius like his father told him to, but only did it after his mother, Gertrude, drank the poison that Claudius meant to give Hamlet. This is a result of external action from all the sorrows that was building up in Hamlet’s life. This brings us to our next character, Gertrude, Claudius’s wife and Hamlets
Hamlet did not mean to kill Polonius because he did not see who was behind the arras. Hamlet thought the man who yelled for help was King Claudius, but he let his emotions cloud his judgement and accidentally stabbed Polonius. This is the death that Hamlet is most responsible for because he directly killed
I enjoyed reading Hamlet very much. It was entertaining, interesting, and kept me wondering what would happen next. There were many thoughts going through my head when I was reading Hamlet. The number one thing that I was wondering was, were Hamlet’s actions justified? When I was done reading no fear Shakespeare I went back through the story to try and answer that question.
Would you kill your own blood? Claudius did. I know a lot of people wouldn 't react very well to their own uncle killing their father. Hamlet had good reasons to get revenge on Claudius because Claudius hamlet 's uncle first killed his father then married his mother. Claudius is Polonius ' brother, Hamlet 's uncle.
Soon after Polonius was killed, Gertrude rushes to speak to Claudius. She tells him that Hamlet killed Polonius after yelling out that there was a rat. She also said if it were Claudius hiding behind the tapestry, Hamlet would have killed him. He tells Gertrude that they must send Hamlet to England. He sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Hamlet.
In order to execute his plan, Hamlet pretends he is going crazy, so Claudius would not suspect of him. Claudius is not completely if Hamlet is faking his insanity or not, so he sends people to watch Hamlet 's every move while Hamlet watches him simultaneously. Gertrude calls Hamlet to her room in order to figure out what is wrong with him and they have a heated discussion which included briefly discussing her sexual life. In this scene, Hamlet kills Polonius thinking it was Claudius behind a curtain. Hamlet feels no remorse whatsoever after killing Polonius, even though he never had any proof about Polonius ' involvement in his father 's death.
However, Hamlet soon discovers that Claudius has been lying to him, and Claudius’ real motive is to kill Hamlet in order to exterminate all possible threats to his reign. Claudius’ role play affects the entire country of Denmark, and he convinces the people that he is the rightful king, when he is not, and has murdered his brother for the throne. Gertrude, too, takes on a role; throughout the play, she seems oblivious to her wrongdoings. She claims that she loves Claudius, and did not just marry him for political reasons.
However, in the same speech he switches to the encouragement of his marriage to Gertrude to distract the royal court from speculating his right to the throne. Figuratively, he pours poison into others’ ears to reshape the appearance of an event to his advantage. He becomes a direct antagonist for Hamlet as he calculates how to switch the situation of Hamlet’s “madness” to find safety for himself. In the end, Claudius’s use of deception becomes too crafty for his own good when he plans for Hamlet’s death. Claudius starts off by calling Hamlet’s grief “sweet and commendable” (I.II.92), praising him for the “mourning duties to [his] father” (I.II.94).
