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-Prince of Denmark
-The protagonist
-30 years old at the start of play
-Son of Queen Gertrude and late King Hamlet
-Nephew of the present king Claudius
-Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, cynical and 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
-Often indecisive and hesitant, but also prone to rash and impulsive acts

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-King of Denmark
-Hamlet's uncle
-Play's Antagonist
-Villain of the play
-Claudius is calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling
-His love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere

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-Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother
-Recently married to Claudius
-Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral rectitude or truth.

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-The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius court, a pompous, conniving old man.
-Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia

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-hamlet's close friend, who studied with the prince at the University of Wittenberg.
-Horatio is loyal and helpful to hamlet throughout the play.
-After Hamlet's death, Horatio remains alive to tell Hamlet's story

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-Polonius's daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love.
-Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and brother, Laertes.
-Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius's schemes to spy on Hamlet.
-Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered

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-Polonius's son and Ophelia's brother
-A young man who spends much of the play in France
-Passionate and quick to action, Laertes is clearly a foil for the reflective Hamlet

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-Young Prince if Norway, whose father the king (also named Fortinbras) was killed by Hamlet's father (also named Hamlet)
-Now Fortinbras wishes to attack Denmark to avenge his father's honour, making him another foil for Prince Hamlet.

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-the specter of hamlet's recently deceased father.
-The ghost, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius, calls upon Hamlet to avenge him.
-However, it is not entirely certain whether the ghost is what it appears to be, or whether something else.
-Hamlet speculates that the ghost might be a devil sent to deceive him and tempt him into murder, and the question of what the ghost is or where it comes from is never definitively resolves.

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-Two slightly bumbling courtiers. former friends of hamlet from Wittenberg, who are summoned by Claudius and Gertrude to discover the cause of hamlet's strange behavious.

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-The foolish courtier who summons hamlet to duel with Laertes.