https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39 Hamlet characters en-us 2020-02-08 00:27:41 UTC 2025-03-15 22:14:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/452927345/24d2df356341ea452934319c63442831/la_logo.jpg abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442457527 Hamlet The Prince of Denmark, the title character, and the protagonist. About thirty years old at the start of the play, Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet, and the nephew of the present king, Claudius.]]> 2020-02-08 00:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442457527 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458065 Claudius The King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle, and the play's antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, and ambitious politician.]]> 2020-02-08 00:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458065 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458184 Gertrude The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother, recently married to Claudius. Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is a shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral rectitude or truth]]> 2020-02-08 00:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458184 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458241 The Ghost The specter of Hamlet's recently deceased father. The ghost, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius, calls upon Hamlet to avenge him]]> 2020-02-08 00:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458241 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458580 Polonius The Lord Chamberlain of Claudius's court, a pompous, conniving old man. Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia]]> 2020-02-08 00:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458580 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458786 Horatio Hamlet's close friend, who studied with the prince at the university in Wittenberg. Horatio is loyal and helpful to Hamlet throughout the play. After Hamlet's death, Horatio remains alive to tell Hamlet's story.]]> 2020-02-08 00:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458786 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458980  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 her 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.]]> 2020-02-08 00:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442458980 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442459635  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.]]> 2020-02-08 00:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442459635 abyazarraiz https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442459908  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]]> 2020-02-08 00:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/abyazarraiz/eq8867l4cu39/wish/442459908