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Hamlet has been hesitant with killing Claudius. In the end, he does, but at this point he has had several chances. He is hesitant and wonders to himself why that is. He does avenge his father in the end, but after much hesitation and thought leading up to that moment.

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"I do not know/ Why yet I live to say this thing's to do,/ Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means/ To do't" (Shakespeare 4.4.45-48).

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As part of Hamlet's revenge plan, he is faking insanity. He is talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and they try to find out where Polonius' body is. Hamlet is speaking to them in metaphors and not making much sense.

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"But such officers do the King best/ service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner/ of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed" (Shakespeare 4.2.15-17).

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This could connect to the audience when Hamlet was written to show them to think about their actions or they could be killed for them. Today, this shows us that your actions have consequences and your lies and bad actions will catch up to you in the end.

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Ophelia is the first big character death in Act 4. She is the start to a line of deaths that will follow in these Acts. This is important because the audience does not know what is to follow and that her death was the first of many in Act 4 and 5.

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"But long it could not be/ Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,/ Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay/ To muddy death" (Shakespeare 4.7.195-198).

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In these Acts, Shakespeare is getting his audience to think about death and the consequences your actions will have.

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Hamlet was determined to kill Claudius since the beginning of the play. After only wounding him, he makes sure Claudius will die by forcing him to drink poison. This shows his determination to get the revenge he had been striving for. Hamlet knew he was going to die and wouldn't stop until Claudius was dead.

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"Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane,/ Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?/ Follow my mother" (Shakespeare 5.2.355-357).

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Horatio was basically the only person who stuck by Hamlet and stayed loyal to him from the beginning to his death. He was a good friend to Hamlet and looked out from him in the beginning with the ghost, to the end with wishing angels to sing him to rest.

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Horatio is Hamlet's closest friend. He is one of the few characters that survives. "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,/ And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest" (Shakespeare 5.2.374-375).

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Hamlet is responsible for his own death because of his choice to get revenge. If he wouldn't have tried and planned so hard to kill Claudius, he might still be alive. Even on his deathbed, he gets his revenge and kills Claudius, which shows how he was willing to die for revenge.

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"The point envenomed too! Then, venom, to thy/ work" (Shakespeare 5.2.331-332).

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He is partially responsible for his own death.

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Hamlet was poisoned and cut and it was Claudius' idea to use poison. Laertes is the one who fought and cut Hamlet, so he is also to blame. I believe they are both equally responsible for killing Hamlet.

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"It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet thou art slain./ No medicine in the world can do thee good" (Shakespeare 5.2.323-324).

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They are both to blame for his death.

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Hamlet is a dweller because he is focused on thoughts and thinking, not taking action. Hamlet is about to kill Claudius and decides against taking that action. He says it needs more thought because he does not want Claudius to go heaven. This shows that Hamlet dwells and is focused on thinking. He is not quick to take action.

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"Now might I do it pat, now he is a-praying./ And now I'll do't./ And so he goes to heaven;/ And so am I revenged. That would be scanned" (Shakespeare 3.3.76-79).

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Hamlet is describing the events of the play. It is directly connected to Hamlet because it has the plot of getting killed. Gonzago is murdered the same was as King Hamlet, with poison in the ear. The play also shows how the murderer gets the victim's wife, just like in Hamlet.

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"He poisons him i'th'garden for his estate. His name's/ Gonzago. The story is/ Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of/ Gonzago's wife" (Shakespeare 3.2.252-255

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Directly resembles his father's murder.

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Hamlet changes the name when asked, hinting at the fact that the play is a trap. He also jokes that they have clear consciences, so the play has nothing to do with them.

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"The Mousetrap - marry how tropically!... Your Majesty, and/ we that have free souls, it touches us not" (Shakespeare 3.2.29&32-33).

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While watching the play Hamlet is making hints toward the purpose of it. He wants to make sure Claudius will understand and react.

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The theme of Act 3 is Hamlet questioning his uncle's guilt and when to kill him. To find out if he is guilty he gets the help of Horatio to study his uncle while watching the play. Once his uncle shows he is guilty, Hamlet knows he needs to kill him. When he goes to do it, his uncle is not in a state of sin and Hamlet wants to make sure Claudius will go to hell. He decides to wait until he is sinning in order to have Claudius' soul be damned.

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"Even with the very comment of thy soul/ Observe my uncle" (Shakespeare 3.2.75-76

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"Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,/...And that his soul may be as damned and black/ As hell, wherto it goes"(Shakespeare 3.3..91-92&98-99).

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Finding out if Claudius is truly guilty and when to kill him

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Finding out if Claudius is truly guilty and when to kill him

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Hamlet kills Polonius and shows no remorse. He is unbothered that he killed him and tells him to accept his bad luck. He also calls him a fool and tells him that this is what happens when you are too inquisitive. Hamlet thought it was the king that he killed and since he is mission oriented he continues on like that didn't happen. He basically seems to be blaming Polonius for his own death and does not seem to care.

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"Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell./ I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune:/ Thou find'st to be too busy in some danger" (Shakespeare 3.4.36-38).

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Hamlet is speaking to his mother after the play and he is vocalizing how he feels about her marriage. In the first act, Hamlet showed his mother respect when speaking to her. Now he is being brutally honest and speaking disrespectfully. This is significant because it shows how his opinion of his mother has changed now that he knows the truth about her husband.

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"Nay, but to live/ In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/ Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/ Over the nasty sty!" (Shakespeare 3.4.100-103).

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He is trying to please his deceased father and do what he was asked. He wants to make sure someone pays for his father's murder and maybe that is his way of trying to put his own mind at ease or find some kind of closure.

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I believe Hamlet's motive of revenge is both conscious and unconscious. I think it is conscious because he is upset by his father's murder and wants to do what he was told. I think it is unconscious though because he is fueled off anger and want someone to pay. We can tell he is having doubts or second thoughts because he needs to carry out his plan to see if Claudius is guilty.

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"I'll observe his looks;/ I'll tent him to the quick. If he but blench, I know my course" (Shakespeare 2.2.585-587).

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Hamlet's moral dilemma is he is unsure if he is doing the right thing. The ghost could have been a demon and lied to him about Claudius. In order to make sure he is doing the right thing, he will set up Claudius by altering the play. He is going to put in his own lines to see how Claudius reacts to know if he is guilty.

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"We'll ha't tomorrow night. You could for a need/ study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines,which I would/ set down and insert in't, could you not?" (Shakespeare 2.2.527-529).

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Even though Hamlet is acting crazy, he is still showing respect to the players. He wants to make sure they are well cared for and he shows the reader that he respects their work.

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"Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?/ Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract/ and brief chronicles of the time" (Shakespeare 2.2.512-514).

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Hamlet goes to his love interest, Ophelia, and acts crazy. He grabs her wrist, stares, and overall just does not act like himself. This shows his dedication to his plan because he goes to someone important to him first.

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"He took me by the wrist and held me hard./ Then goes he to the length of all his arm,/ And with his other hand this o'er his brow/ He falls to such perusal of my face/ As he would draw it" (Shakespeare 2.1.97-101).

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In the first act, Ophelia was head-over-heels in love with Hamlet. Now, after her interaction with him, she is afraid. He went to her acting insane and now she is scared of him and she ran to her father.

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"And with a look so piteous in purport/ As if he had been loosed out of hell!/ To speak of horrors, he comes before me" (Shakespeare 2.1.90-93).

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Polonius is Ophelia's father and he wants Hamlet to stay away from his daughter. It is shown in that paragraph that Hamlet doesn't like Polonius very much. He makes a joke about his beard being too long. He also jokes about his taste in plays and his attention span.

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"It shall to the barber's with your beard! Prithee say/ on. He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. Say on,/ come to Hecuba" (Shakespeare 2.2.489-491).

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Hamlet is very angry. He is mad his father is dead and mad his mom is already remarried. He is so angry he does not find purpose in the world. His mother's marriage to his uncle so soon after his father's death greatly upsets him.

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"O God! God! / How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!" (Shakespeare 1.2.134-136).

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Hamlet is brave and determined. He is advised against going to see the ghost and his friends try to stop him. He says he will kill anyone who gets in his way which shows how determined he is.

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"Unhand me, gentleman / By Heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. / I say away! Go on, I'll follow thee" (Shakespeare 1.4.94-96).

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Hamlet shows and values respect. Although his mother married very soon after his father's death, and the man she married is his uncle, Hamlet is still respectful towards his mother and will obey her wishes.

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"I shall in all my best obey you, madam" (Shakespeare 1.2.122).

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Hamlet says this when convincing his friends to let him go speak with the ghost of his father. The Neamon Lion was a vicious monster that could not be killed by mortals’ weapons. It was killed by Heracles at his first labour. This allusion is used to show the courage Hamlet has. He is saying that each artery in his body has the courage and need to go after the ghost.

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“As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve” (Shakespeare 1.4.93).

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Hamlet again is comparing his father and Claudius. He is saying how different they are and how his mother married someone who is nothing like his dad. He says his father and Claudius are as much alike as himself and Hercules. Hercules is the son of Zeus, famous for his strength. He uses this allusion to show how different Claudius and King Hamlet are. Hamlet is not similar to Hercules so he uses that comparison to show the differences.

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“My father’s brother- but no more like my father/ Than I to Hercules” (Shakespeare 1.2.154-155).

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While comparing his father and Claudius, Hamlet refers to Hyperion and a satyr. Hamlet is upset about his father's death and his mother marrying Claudius. He is saying how King Hamlet is more like Hyperion, a Titan, and Claudius is like a satyr, a lower class half horse half man. He does this to show the respect Hamlet has for his father and the kind of king he was. This also is showing how Hamlet views Claudius and the disrespect he has for him.

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“So excellent a king, that was to this/ Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother” (Shakespeare 1.2.141-142).

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The theme of revenge is present because Hamlet is told by the ghost, his deceased father, not to tolerate what Claudius has done. Hamlet is to seek revenge on King Claudius for poisoning his father. Hamlet starts to plan his revenge and will carry out his fathers wishes.

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"If thou has nature in thee, bear it not, / Let not the royal bed of Denmark be / A couch for luxury and damned incest. / But howsoever thou pursues this act, / Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul / contrive Against thy mother aught" (Shakespeare 1.5.86-91).