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Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw Affecting Other Characters 

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Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw Affecting Other Characters 

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Hamlet's tragic flaw, his inability to decide--about the Ghost and about vengeance--and then to act to take revenge for his father's death, leads him and many others, including his mother, Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia, to their bloody graves

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Hamlets tragic flaw is his inability to act/ take action. He waits everything out and thinks everything out and stalls the situation. He has a inability to act in the moment.

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Hamlet

The prince of Denmark, son of Gertrude, nephew of Claudius, and heir to the throne. Hamlet is a deep thinker, focusing on impossible to answer questions about religion, death, truth, and reality.

Claudius

Hamlet's uncle, and Gertrude's second husband. Power-hungry and lustful, Claudius murders his brother in order to take the throne of Denmark and marry his wife. Claudius is a great talker and schemer.

Gertrude

Hamlet's mother. After Hamlet's father dies, Gertrude quickly marries Hamlet's uncle, Claudius.

Polonius

The Lord Chamberlain of Denmark, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia, whom he loves deeply and wishes to protect, even to the point of spying on them.

Ophelia

Polonius's daughter, Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's love.

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Claudius has swayed Laertes to believe that Hamlet is their mutual enemy when a letter arrives.

The letter is from Hamlet who writes that he has returned to Denmark all alone the inexplicability of which he will explain when face to face. Claudius is flummoxed but Laertes is grimly pleased as he would like nothing better than to personally see to Hamlet’s reckoning. Gathering himself, Claudius cooks up a scheme whereby his nephew’s murder will be accounted an accident.

Laertes is more than happy to do his part. They have all but sealed their villainy with a notarized contract when Gertrude appears. She has bad news. The bough of a willow tree upon which Ophelia had clambered on had given way, plunging Ophelia to the brook below where, though for a time it seemed as if Ophelia were in her natural element, the water overwhelmed her, dragging her to the depths. Ophelia is dead. She has drowned

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King Claudius urges Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to make preparations for their departure to England where they are to escort Hamlet. Alone, the king tries to pray. However, is it possible, he asks himself, to ask for and be granted forgiveness when he is yet in possession of those things he had gained as a result of his crimes? He doesn’t think so, but out of desperation he tries to pray anyway. Almost simultaneously, Hamlet, who is en route to his mother’s room, espies his uncle in the act of praying. He has a mind to kill his uncle only to suspect that he might be doing his uncle a favor. Indeed, as his uncle has done to his father, so Hamlet would do to his uncle. Vengeance will be exacted when his uncle is in the midst of vice and sin.

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Hamlets first encounter with the ghost he questions the appearances of things around him and worries whether he can trust his perceptions, doubting the authenticity of his father’s ghost and its tragic claim. Because he is lost in thought to the point of obsession, Hamlet’s decision to feign madness in order to keep the other characters from guessing the motive for his behavior will lead him at times very close to actual madness.

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Many people have seen Hamlet as a play about indecisiveness, and about Hamlet's failure to act appropriately. It might be more interesting to consider that the play shows us how many uncertainties our lives are built upon, how many unknown quantities are taken for granted when people act or when they evaluate one another's actions.

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A profound and grafic poem. Hamlet compares to a soap opera if you miss one episode you will be lost on the other episodes after. Shakespeare is an author that spends time making the point deeper. Readers need to take into consideration to analyze each text. Hamlet can be a very difficult poem if key points are missed. There are many aspects of them poem that ties to the end. Shakespeare did a great job with making Hamlet a tragedy and with pushing readers to analyze and visualize text information.

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Hamlet , the Shakespeare poem is a play that gives a reader a better understanding of how to visualize and create literary imagery. Hamlet can be a very complicated book if you don’t read deep into the lines. For example , Hamlet states ?  “To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks” many readers would assume this is suicide but Hamlet is just considering how his life is and how to deal with the issue. Hamlet is actually terrified of death because he does not know what it feels like and what will happen.

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Ghost shows up to guards

Horiatio asks the ghost questions, it leaves

Fortinbras is mad about his dad's death

The ghost comes back and leaves again

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The message is that revenge itself is deadly. Hamlet causes his own downfall by his obsession with revenge. By plotting Claudius' death, Hamlet is stirring up Claudius' natural reaction to protect himself. However, revenge kills Hamlet.

The themes in hamlet are action vs inaction, appearance vs reality, women, religion, honor, and revenge

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At first Hamlet seemed whiney and weak.  He was very intellectual he thought out every option to a situation before he handled it he was an intellect. However, He is young, in a tragic situation, and truly has no one to turn to that he can trust that he can discuss his thoughts and feelings other than Horatio.

Hamlet is the average teenager trying to find his place in the world.  Asking questions like Where do I fit in? But he finally thinks he has found somewhere to fit in by getting revenge for his father and that ended up turning into an obsession leading to his death.

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A reflective and thoughtful young man who is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Through each Act , Hamlet has showed his characteristics. Hamlet's main reason for feigning insanity is that he wants to investigate the suspicious nature of his father's death without Claudius suspecting that he knows the truth. This is a prime of example of how Hamlet is indecisive about following through to his plan on killing the suspect in charge of his fathers death. Greed and Jealousy plays a big role into the death of each character. Claudius kills the father to take advantage of the throne to benifit himself, not thinking of consequences it can lead to.

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Hamlet's uncle, and Gertrude's second husband. Power-hungry and lustful, Claudius murders his brother in order to take the throne of Denmark and marry his wife. Claudius is a great talker and schemer. He easily charms the royal court into accepting his hasty marriage to his brother's widow, and comes up with plot after plot to protect his ill-gained power. He is the consummate politician, yet his hold on power is always slightly tenuous. At various times he does show guilt for killing his brother, and his love of Gertrude seems genuine.

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Hamlet's uncle, and Gertrude's second husband. Power-hungry and lustful, Claudius murders his brother in order to take the throne of Denmark and marry his wife. Claudius is a great talker and schemer. He easily charms the royal court into accepting his hasty marriage to his brother's widow, and comes up with plot after plot to protect his ill-gained power.

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Readers who read Hamlet need to carefully analyze the text , and read line by line. Reading the play like this creates imagery and help you analyze the characters as a whole. Hamlet character can be misled to manh readers and readers may have trouble coming up with the message that Shakespeare is trying to persue. Hamlet as the indecisive and hesitant character can lead to readers thinking differently. By doing this readers misinterpret the real message of the Shakespeare poem.

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In my reasearch i have found that Shakespeare was driven by the death of his eleven year old son Hamnet. Hamnet was Shakespeare’s only male child and his untimely passing away at such a young age left the father in a state of despair and it is in that very moment of hurt that he came up with the idea of writing down Hamlet.

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Worried about Laertes in France, Polonius sends his servant, Reynaldo, to spy on his son. He wants to know all about what Laertes is up to, and with whom. After Reynaldo leaves, Ophelia enters, shaken by a recent interaction she had with Hamlet. She tells her father that Hamlet was acting totally insane, and he looked the part, too. Polonius thinks that this madness is evidence of Hamlet’s love for his daughter, and he decides to fill Claudius in on his stepson’s behavior.

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This scene takes place at the residence of Polonius, in a room in the castle of Elsinore. His son, Laertes, offers overprotective advice to his sister, Ophelia, who is in love with Prince Hamlet. His tone shows that it is a well-prepared speech, though he pretends he is unaware of Ophelia’s feelings about love. In fact, he speaks to her in a metaphorical language, underscoring her feminine position.

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Afraid of what Hamlet might do next, Claudius has him arrested and despatched to England under guard, where he has arranged to have Hamlet murdered. Hamlet escapes, returns to his homeland and finally achieves his revenge.

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In many ways this theme is intertwined with the theme of appearance vs. reality. Hamlet’s sanity or insanity has baffled critics for years. Even the characters in the play discuss inconsistencies in Hamlet’s behavior, sometimes assuming he is really insane, at other times amazed by his clarity of thought.

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Alas, Poor Yorick - Hamlet (8/10) Movie CLIP (1990) HD

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Hamlet is melancholic, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle's scheming and disgust for his mother's sexuality. A reflective and thoughtful young man who has studied at the University of Wittenberg, Hamlet is sometimes indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts.

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Denmark during the late middle ages, though characters in the play occasionally reference things or events from the Elizabethan Age.

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Written during the first part of the seventeenth century (probably in 1600 or 1601), Hamletwas probably first performed in July 1602. It was first published in printed form in 1603 and appeared in an enlarged edition in 1604.

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The ghost of Hamlet revealed that he had in fact been murdered by Claudius, not killed by mere accident. He employs Hamlet Jr. to exact revenge on Claudius for his horrendous crime.