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At the end of the play, most of the main characters end up dying. All of the characters who died have done some bad deed(s) that led them to their death. King Claudius murdered his brother for the crown, Gertrude fell into Claudius' trap of incest. Hamlet murdered Polonius. Laertes and Claudius devised a plot to kill Hamlet that horribly backfired. I believe that the theme of this act and ultimately the play is that if you commit a bad deed, you will get what you deserve eventually. This tells readers today to avoid  committing inhumane actions because it might backfire.

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"The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice hath turned itself on me" (Shakespeare 304).

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"I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away" (Shakespeare 70).

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"Here, as before, never, so help your mercy, How strange or odd so e'er I bear myself - As i perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on..." (Shakespeare 82).

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Hamlet fakes insanity in order for him to get revenge on the king.

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The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet to get revenge on the King.

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Hamlet throughout the play showed Courage and bravery. At the end of the play, Hamlet is wounded and still carries out his revenge on Claudius. Hamlet throughout the play showed determination to achieve his goal and avenge his father.

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"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" (Shakespeare 308).

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The wound caused by the poisoned rapier is ultimately the reason of Hamlet's death. Laertes slashes him with the tip and the poison enters his circualtion which is the reason he dies.

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King Claudius is the one to blame because he is the one who devised the plot with Laertes. The King has been trying to get rid of Hamlet for awhile now and he believes that this fencing battle will be the thing to kill Hamlet.

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"It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet thou art slain. No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life. The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed" (Shakespeare 304).

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"Lo, here I lie, Never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned. I can no more. The King - the King's to blame" (Shakespeare 304).

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The cause of Hamlet's death is the wound from the poisoned sword.

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King Claudius is the one to blame for Hamlet's death

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Hamlet and Laertes disagree with each other on a lot of different issues. At the beginning of the play  Hamlet was in love with Ophelia but Laertes told Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet. Hamlet also later in the play killed Polonius. They eventually fence at the end of the play and they both wound each other with the poisoned tip of the sword. Laertes says before he dies that he will exchange forgiveness with Hamlet for the deaths of themselves.

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"Why, I will fight with him upon this theme until my eyelids will no longer wag"(Shakespeare 276).

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I believe that the theme of this act of Hamlet is that you get what you deserve.

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"To whom do you speak this?"
"Do you see nothing there?"
"Nothing at all; yet all that is I see."
"Nor do you nothing hear?"
"No, nothing but ourselves" (Shakespeare 198).

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While Hamlet is in his mother's room, they are arguing when the ghost appears. The weird thing is is that Hamlet is the only one who can see the ghost, Gertrude cannot. Hamlet has said that he is faking acting crazy but if the queen cannot see the ghost, does that mean that Hamlet is actually starting to go insane?

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Is Hamlet faking going insane, or is he actually going insane?

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Is Hamlet faking going insane, or is he actually going insane?

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"Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing, Confederate season, else no creature seeing, thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, With Hecate's band thrice blasted, thrice infected, thy natural magic and dire property On wholesome life usurps immediately" (Shakespeare 170).

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In the play that the players put on, Lucianus pours poison into the sleeping king's ear. In the actual play of Hamlet, Claudius pours poison into the sleeping King Hamlet's ear so he can take the throne and his wife. That is why when Claudius sees the play he storms out in anger.

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"For thou dost know, oh Damon dear, This realm dismantled was of Jove himself, and now reigns here A very, very - pajock"(Shakespeare 172).

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Hamlet is happy that he now knows that the ghost was telling the truth and that Claudius is indeed guilty. Hamlet can now further is plan for revenge now that he knows for sure that Claudius murdered his father.

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"Now might I do it pat, now he is a-praying. And now I'll do it. And so he goes to heaven: And so am i Revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain to heaven. Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge" (Shakespeare 186).

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Hamlet thinks before making a decision and acting on it. For example when he was about to kill Claudius but then he realized that he would rather kill him in a state of sin, not when he is in prayer. If Hamlet was quick to act on a decision he would have killed Claudius then and there.

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Hamlet is smart enough to devise a plan to see if his uncle is really the one who killed his father. If Claudius reacts in a way that shows he had killed him while watching the play, the ghost that Hamlet had saw is telling the truth. If Hamlet was not this intelligent he would not have been able to devise a plan like this to get revenge on Claudius.

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"There is a play tonight before the King: One Scene of it comes near the circumstance of my father's death. I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, Even with the very comment of they soul Observe my Uncle" (Shakespeare 156).

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Hamlet and his mother Gertrude's Relationship is not in a good place at this part in the story. Hamlet is trying to make his mother realize how her actions have affected him and his late father. Gertrude has been trying to convince Hamlet to look at Claudius as a father but Hamlet refuses and instead tells his mother to look in a mirror to see her inner self.

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"Now, mother, what's the matter?"
"Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended."
"Mother, you have my father much offended" (Shakespeare 190).

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Hamlet throughout the Act is overcome with emotions. These emotions that Hamlet is experiencing can alter his decision-making and draw him further away from his goal. In order for Hamlet's plan to work, he has to mute his emotions and other events in his life that make it harder for him to go through with his plan.

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Hamlet's dilemma is that he needs to overcome his emotions and follow through with his plan to murder Claudius.

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Hamlet is trying to follow through with what the ghost of his father told him to; get revenge on King Claudius. However, there are plenty of obstacles in Hamlet's way that he needs to get past.

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Hamlet's plan for revenge is a Conscious motive because he needs to devise a plan to execute his revenge. He also needs to deceive everyone and make them think that he is going mad.

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"The Play's the thing wherein Ill catch the conscience of the king" (Shakespeare 136).

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Ophelia is describing what had happened with Hamlet and her to her father. This is the first part of Hamlet's plan for revenge. He convinces Polonius and Ophelia that the reason he is going crazy is because of his love for Ophelia. Polonius then tells the king about what happened with Ophelia which is what Hamlet wanted.

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Hamlet at the end of act II is angered by the fact that the player can perform a play with many emotions and that He cannot. Hamlet then calls himself a coward and an idiot. Hamlet shows throughout the act that his emotions play a big role in his decision-making.

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"O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit that from her working all his visage wanned, tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? And all for Nothing! For Hecuba! (Shakespeare 134).

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"My Lord, as I was sewing in my chamber, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, No hat upon his head, his stocking fouled, Ungartered and down-gyved to his ankle, Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak horrors, he comes before me" (Shakespeare 92).

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are good friends of Hamlet. Hamlet asks why they come to this prison that is Denmark and they say to see him. Hamlet knows this is not true and that they are there for a purpose. Hamlet tells them he has been feeling very depressed. Hamlet now knows that he cannot trust Rosencrantz or Guildenstern.

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Polonius is the father of Ophelia. Hamlet does not really like polonius and thinks that he is a tedious old fool. He calls him a fishmonger which means he is calling him a pimp.

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"Why, anything. But to the purpose. You were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. I know the good king and queen have sent for you" (Shakespeare 116).

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"Do you know me, my lord?
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger" (Shakespeare 108).

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"Why, she would hang on him AS if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month. - Let me not think on't! Fratility, thy name is a woman!

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"Why, she would hang on him AS if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month. - Let me not think on't! Fratility, thy name is a woman!

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Hamlet is emotional after the ghost of his father tells him that Claudius was the one who had killed his father. He very angry at the moment and promised the ghost that he would fulfill his oath.

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Hamlet is emotional after the ghost of his father tells him that Claudius was the one who had killed his father. He very angry at the moment and promised the ghost that he would fulfill his oath.

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Hamlet is determined to find out if the ghost Horatio speaks about is actually the spirit of his father. He hopes the ghost will tell him what actually happend to his father.

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Hamlet is determined to find out if the ghost Horatio speaks about is actually the spirit of his father. He hopes the ghost will tell him what actually happend to his father.

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Hamlet says this line in scene 4 when the ghost appears and he wants to follow it. Horatio and Marcellus do not want him to go follow the ghost but Hamlet compares himself to a nemean lion. The Nemean lion was a creature that could not be harmed by human weapons. He is trying to say that he has nothing to lose and If he dies he is okay with it so he does not care what happens with the ghost.

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Hamlet says this in scene 2. Hamlet is mourning the fact that his mother and his uncle are getting married shortly after his fathers death. Hamlet then compares his father to a hyperion which was a powerful titan. He then compares his uncle to a satyr which is considered to be an evil and demonic creature.

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Hamlet says this line in his soliloquy in scene 2. He is talking about how Claudius and his father are nothing alike. Hamlet compares this to saying he is no more like his brother than he is to a Greek god. He is trying to say that King Hamlet was a great King and that Claudius is a terrible King.

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"My fathers spirit - in arms! All is not well. I doubt some foul play. would the night were come. Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

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Hamlet is in pain dealing with the loss of his father. He even feels as though he would rather die than live. No one else understands his point of view.

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Hamlet is in pain dealing with the loss of his father. He even feels as though he would rather die than live. No one else understands his point of view.

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"O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God! O God!

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"O all you host of heavem! O earth! What else? And shall i couple hell? Or fie!

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"But know, my cousin Hamlet, and my son -

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"But know, my cousin Hamlet, and my son -

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A Little More than kin, and less than kind.

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King Hamlet to a Hyperion/Claudius to a satyr.

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King Hamlet to a Hyperion/Claudius to a satyr.

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"My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body as hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve."

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“So excellent a king, that was to this/ Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother”

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"My fathers brother - but no more like my father Than I to Hercules."

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Hamlet at the beginning of the act is debating on whether he should kill himself or not. He is disgusted by his mother marrying his uncle right after his father died. Hamlet is told by the ghost that his father was killed by Claudius and that the ghost believes that his mother had nothing to do with his death. Hamlet know has to figure out how to get revenge on Claudius without harming his country. Even though the ghost said he does not believe that Gertrude played a part in this, Hamlet thinks otherwise.

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Hamlet's relationship with Queen Gertrude, his mother,  is in a weird spot. Hamlet is still grieving the loss of  his father but his mother wants him to get over it. Hamlet does not understand how everyone can get over the death of the king that fast.

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Hamlet's relationship with Queen Gertrude, his mother,  is in a weird spot. Hamlet is still grieving the loss of  his father but his mother wants him to get over it. Hamlet does not understand how everyone can get over the death of the king that fast.

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"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailed lids. Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common: all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

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"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailed lids. Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common: all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

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King Claudius is Hamlet's uncle. Claudius wants Hamlet to see him as a father and Hamlet is disgusted by that. Hamlet does not like King Claudius.

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King Claudius is Hamlet's uncle. Claudius wants Hamlet to see him as a father and Hamlet is disgusted by that. Hamlet does not like King Claudius.

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Ophelia is in love with Hamlet, but her family does not want her to stay away from Hamlet. Ophelia however will probably disregard her father and brother's request.

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Ophelia is in love with Hamlet, but her family does not want her to stay away from Hamlet. Ophelia however will probably disregard her father and brother's request.

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"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute, No more."

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"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute, No more."