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Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling player's play?
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Hamlet finds Claudius praying for forgiveness after the play. He decides that if he were to kill Claudius at that moment, Claudius would go to heaven rather than to hell. Hamlet decides to wait until he finds Claudius sinning, in order to kill him.
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Does Gertrude tell claudius that Hamlet is missing?
Not entirely. Her account of the killing of Polonius is generally correct, but following the lead Hamlet has given her, she describes him as mad and does not reveal that she knows he is faking. She also does not reveal that she now knows about Claudius's guilt in the death of her first husband.
What plan do the king and polonius devise to test whether or not this cause of hamlets conduct is love for ophelia?
To spy on him. First of all he wants to spy on him when interacting with Ophelia, and when this fails to support his theory, he wants to spy on him while interacting with Gertrude.
Why does horatio think the ghost will speak with Hamlet?
Marcellus thinks that Horatio may know how to speak to a ghost because he is a University Man. I guess Marcellus assumes that's the kind of thing you learn at a University.
What is the only shakespeare play that was made into a science fiction film?
The argument has been made that Forbidden Planet was based on ( The Tempest) I find this hard to weather. There were no electonic-impulse Id monsters in the Shakespeare play, though they did have some strange animals- one character said- I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster! that does not apply to blind forces that can rip through 26 inches of Krell equivalent of stainless steel no way. No Shakespeare play deals with extra-planetary life, it was unthinkable in Elizabethan days. RE: answer about Forbidden Planet and The Tempest I do not know anything about Forbidden Planet. However, before we judge it so superficially-- that it does not have any electronic impulse Id monsters-- perhaps the movie parallels the play on other levels-- the basic situation and plotline, the themes, the types of characters, etc. For example, The Lion King is essentially a reworking of Hamlet. True, there are no lions or monkeys or hyenas in Hamlet, but in Hamlet, Hamlet's father is killed by his father's brother, and Hamlet must decide whether or not to avenge his father's death. In the Lion King, the same basic plot exists.
What Shakespeare play said 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'?
There is an injustice being perpetuated in the Danish royal house. ....Mmmm , the Royal House bit in the above reply is historicaly correct.But seeing how we are not in 1603 , intodays world , this phrase means to convey CORRUPTION
When king Claudius gets stabbed where was it?
Hamlet is supposed to wait for Claudius "in the hall". The text does not tell us more. Where Claudius was in the hall (sitting in a chair, standing on a table, cowering under a sideboard) is up to the director. It is also up to the director to decide where on Claudius's body he got stabbed, although it cannot be anywhere that would be instantly fatal, since Hamlet afterwards feeds him poisoned wine. The arm, the nose, the crotch or anywhere would do.
What conflict does Hamlet revolve around?
Claudius is not indisicive like Hamlet is. Claudous decieds that he wants a kigndom and a girl. BAM He kills Hamlet's father and gets both. However Hamlet can't decide on anything. He can't even decide whether to live or not. "To be or not to be..."
Is Hamlet waiting for the right moment or procrastinating?
You could argue either.In the scene when Hamlet attempts to kill Claudius but decides against it is the most significant for this question (So I will be referring to it.) The cause could arguably be 3 things: Hamlet's fear, Hamlet's scheming, or Hamlet's procrastination.Scheming - Hamlet himself says he would rather kill Claudius when he is 'drunk, asleep or in his rage, or in th'incestuous pleasure of his bed' - as Claudius is praying in thie scene, Hamlet could be rationally thinking when it may be better to kill him, in order to send him straight to hell.Procrastintion - As Hamlet's hamartia (tragic flaw) is his lack of action, the reason for him not killing Claudius in this scene could indeed be Hamlet's procrastination, or 'overthinking' of the situation at hand - if another Shakesperian hero such as Macbeth was placed in the same position as Hamlet, the whole play would be complete in one scene. Instead, Hamlet overanalyses the situation before doubting himself.Fear - it could be argued that Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius for fear of what may happen afterwards; most importantly, the throne Hamlet must take. This could be an underlying cause of Hamlet's procrastination.What is obvoius in this scene however is that it is a turning point in the play. If Hamlet had killed Claudius here, Gertrude wouldn't have died, nor Laertes, Ohelia or himself. This proves that Hamlet's lack of action does eventually lead to his downfall.As Shakespeare does not map out to the audience what is the real cause of Hamlet's lack of action, the reader/viewer must decide for themselves.
What is the revenge in Hamlet?
Revenge is what drives the majority of the action of the play. It is the obligation Hamlet is given by the ghost of his father early on in the play and shapes most of the interactions between characters from that moment on. The complicated morality of revenge is a large part of Hamlet's torment. The revenge motive is what makes Hamlet "feign" madness and establishes the chain of events that leads to Ophelia's madness and death, as well as the enormous body count that amasses by the end of the play.
Does Gertrude tell claudius that Hamlet is missing?
Not entirely. Her account of the killing of Polonius is generally correct, but following the lead Hamlet has given her, she describes him as mad and does not reveal that she knows he is faking. She also does not reveal that she now knows about Claudius's guilt in the death of her first husband.
What was Hamlet's internal conflict?
Hamlet's father was king of Denmark before he died. Hamlet's uncle Claudius stepped in and married Hamlet's mother and became the De facto king, cutting out Hamlets rightful ascension to the throne. Hamlet had plenty of reason and motive to want Claudius dead, but to make things worse the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and informs him that it was Claudius who killed the king. Even though Hamlet is brought to see the ghost by his friend Horatio and two others who have also seen the ghost, it is, after all, a ghost story and Hamlet is rightfully wary of the information he received from a ghost. Swearing his friends to secrecy, he sets about investigating the truth in an attempt to prove his fathers murder before granting the command of his fathers ghost to exact revenge. Hamlet wants Claudius dead but wants him dead for the right reason and not blind ambition. He must feign madness and create distance between the ones he loves in order to accomplish his goals and increasingly his inability to make a decision and act upon it brings about intrigue and murder, and more murder, ending in a tragic blood bath where few survive. Hamlet could not decide whether it was right and just to kill Claudius and this indecision cost him the loss of the woman he loved, the loss of her father, the loss of her cousin, the loss of Hamlets mother and finally after discovering that he himself is dying from a poisoned tipped sword and that it was Claudius who commanded Tybalt to poison the sword Hamlet kills Claudius. People will say that Hamlet killed Claudius because his father the ghost told him to, but in truth, Hamlet killed Claudius with his last dying breath because it was Claudius that killed Hamlet. Sometimes it is better to make the wrong decision than make no decision at all.
3 What does Hamlet decide after his chance encounter with a captain in Fortinbras army?
What he says he decides is, "O from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth." It's an open question whether that is a decision or a knee-jerk reaction, which he'll soon forget about.
What is Hamlet trying to decide in his To be?
Hamlet is contemplating suicide. He is deciding whether he should kill himself, "not to be", or to live, "to be". He doesn't kill himself because it would be a sin.
What does Leave her to heaven... mean?
The Ghost tells this to Hamlet in the play. It means that Hamlet should not harm Gertrude but rather let Heaven (and subsequently God) decide her fate.
What do the king and polonius decide about Hamlet's condition after eavesdropping on Hamlet and Ophelia?
Polonius believes that Hamlet is acting strangely because he is in love with his daughter, Ophelia. Polonius had earlier instructed Ophelia to cut off contact with Hamlet and that is what Polonius thinks is making Hamlet mad.
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