When the moment of the murder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. He draws his sword and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Internal conflict happens on Hamlet’s when the spirit of his father comes and asks him to do a revenge on the death of his father murdured by his uncle, Claudius. On the other hand, Ophelia is also mentally struck by a huge burden on the death of his father unpurposely killed by Hamlet.

Polonius believes that the cause of Hamlet’s behavior was because of his love for Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern believe that Hamlet is upset by the recent affairs in Denmark, and Claudius and Gertrude suggest that Hamlet’s behavior is caused by Hamlet’s father’s death.

Not long after this scene, in act 4, scene 7, Gertrude announces Ophelia’s death, describing how she “fell in the weeping brook, and was pulled down to her “muddy death.” The implication is that she does not commit suicide but is rather too “incapable of her own distress” to try and save herself.

Why does Ophelia go mad? Ophelia goes mad because her father, Polonius, whom she deeply loved, has been killed by Hamlet. The fact that this grief drives Ophelia to madness reveals her overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness, and the power that the men in Ophelia’s life wield over her.

Why is Hamlet so cruel to Ophelia? Hamlet is cruel to Ophelia because he has transferred his anger at Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius onto Ophelia. Hamlet may also know that Ophelia is helping Claudius and Polonius spy on him and talks to her with this betrayal in mind.

Hamlet really did love Ophelia, and tells Laertes, “Be buried quick with her, and so will I” (V.i.296). Hamlet shows his love for Ophelia when he confesses to her that he loves her, when he tells her to go to a nunnery to protect her, when he sends her the letter, and when he finds out that she has died.

She betrays his trust by co-operating in her father’s scheme to spy on Hamlet for the king. Ophelia betrays Hamlet because Laerates and Polonius were worldly wise and poisoned her mind. Whenever Hamlet comes nearer to her, she remains silent and then discloses all to her father whatever happened.

In his anger, he curses the fickleness of all women and tells Ophelia to “get thee to a nunnery.” If Hamlet really means “nunnery,” then he is saying that Ophelia should preserve her chastity.

Hamlet kills Polonius in act 3, scene 4 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet because he believes him to be King Claudius, the man who killed Hamlet’s father and against whom Hamlet spends the entire play seeking revenge.

We left off with Hamlet asking Ophelia whether she is honest — which, in this production, means whether she is returning his love letters on her own volition or because her father told her to.

Hamlet is aware or has a feeling that he is being watched by Claudius and Polonius during the famous “ To be or not to be” soliloquy. He questions ophelia as to where he farther is, Hamlet is only cruel to Ophelia when he needs to trick someone into thinking he does not love her. He is putting a show on for Claudius.

Despite the evidence that Hamlet actually is mad, we also see substantial evidence that he is just pretending. The most obvious evidence is that Hamlet himself says he is going to pretend to be mad, suggesting he is at least sane enough to be able to tell the difference between disordered and rational behavior.

Horatio

The soliloquy is essentially all about life and death: “To be or not to be” means “To live or not to live” (or “To live or to die”). Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death.

Hamlet: ‘To Be Or Not To Be, That Is The Question’ ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ is the most famous soliloquy in the works of Shakespeare – quite possibly the most famous soliloquy in literature.

In the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy, Hamlet’s decision not to kill himself comes because of one main fact: no one knows what comes after death. He notes that death can be like sleeping (“To die, to sleep/To sleep, perchance to dream….”), but the dreams may be nightmares.

What does Hamlet’s first soliloquy reveal about his state of mind? He wants to kill himself. He is especially melancholy about the death of his father and the fast transition. Polonius, Ophelia’s father, and Laertes, her brother, both don’t approve of the relationship.

Hamlet’s passionate first soliloquy provides a striking contrast to the controlled and artificial dialogue that he must exchange with Claudius and his court. The primary function of the soliloquy is to reveal to the audience Hamlet’s profound melancholia and the reasons for his despair.

The first soliloquy which Hamlet delivers gives the audience their first glimpse of him as a character. Hamlet is reflective and depicts the way he views his own position; he tells of his father’s death and then his mother’s quick remarriage.

The usual diction Page 5 HAMLET Hamlet’s seven soliloquies 5 PHILIP ALLAN LITERATURE GUIDE FOR A-LEVEL Philip Allan Updates is present: ‘heaven’ (4), ‘hell’, ‘black’, ‘villain’ (2), ‘sickly’, ‘soul’ (2), ‘heavy’, ‘thought’, ‘act’.

Horatio is Hamlet’s trusted friend and confidant. When we first see Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he is called upon by the castle guards to address the ghost that they have encountered. Horatio is not afraid to speak his mind to Hamlet, either.

For example in Hamlet, he and Horatio were more than just friends they were lovers. Horatio is the only one who knows for certain that Hamlet madness is an act. He is the one person Hamlet love deeply, and trust personally, and the main person to comfort him at his death.

Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling players’ play? Claudius is praying. Who killed Fortinbras’s father?