Also his facial expressions are very important. Shakespeare made Macbeth’s character purposely complex to keep the audiences attention. At the beginning of the play Macbeth is loyal and reliable. Macbeth’s true personality is revealed when he lies to Banquo (his oldest and dearest friend) Banquo says ‘I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters’ and Macbeth replies ‘I think not of them’. Here Macbeth has lied because he has been to see the weird sisters earlier in the play.This now tells us that his loyalty is deteriorating as he prepares himself for the murder of King Duncan.
And the last similarity, though not in exact description, is Amleth/Hamlet killing his uncle, the king. Now that you know the similarities, let’s move on to the differences. The first difference between the two stories is that in Hamlet, Hamlet sees the ghost of his dead father, and tells Hamlet that his uncle, who is now king, was the one who killed him. He also orders him to seek the revenge of his murder and to kill his uncle. Hamlet obviously agrees to this and sets out to follow the ghost’s demands.
I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home;” (3.3.29-32). Polonius was speaking to King Claudius about his plan to spy on Hamlet’s conversation with The Queen. This act of deception led to Polonius’s death, after Hamlet had stabbed him thinking that he was Claudius echoing the Queens cry behind the tapestry. The action of deceiving contributed to the deaths of many characters in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, acts of deception propagate the ideas of things that are untrue. The characters in the novel emphasized their plans to deceive
It becomes the cause of the sequent revenge and death. Owing to King Hamlet’s death, Claudius gets the throne and Gertrude betrays Hamlet and remarries with Claudius. The murder and the betrayal make further death. On the other hand, the Creature due to the dead of Frankenstein, it is full of regret. Although it still remembers lots of unequal treatment from human, he is tired of remorse and pain; it commits suicide to end its
Shaneeza Rooplall 4U01 December 10, 2012 Passage Analysis Act I Scene II – King speaks to court In this passage, Claudius the new king of Denmark speaks about the fallen king Hamlet whose tragic death has become a shock to the kingdom. Shakespeare go through many themes such as, corruption, power hungry and appearance vs. reality. Firstly, I would like to show how Corruption is shown in this quote. Claudius is putting aside the death of his brother to announce the marriage of him and his sister in law and future wife Gertrude. This is corrupting the mind of young Hamlet, which they think is making him go crazy.
However, Hamlet who was killed by Laertes because the tip of his sword was poisoned and he cut Hamlet in the third round of sword fighting. Hamlet kills Laertes but not before Laertes tells Hamlet that he is a dead man too because the King, Claudius, of whom Hamlet has been waiting to kill since the play began. Finally at the end of the play, Hamlet sees that his mother who is at her last stage fall on the floor and meet her death, figured that Claudius had a lot to do with his mother’s death. The cup was for hamlet but his mother drunk it instead. Hamlet figures out that Claudius is trying to kill him so after his mother dies he goes over to Claudius and make him drink the same poison his mother drinks and right there on the spot he
In William Shakespeare's play, the main character, Hamlet finds out his father, the king, was killed by his uncle, Claudius. Claudius is also Hamlet’s stepfather. Hamlet’s tremendous anger at Claudius leads Hamlet to kill Claudius. This in turn leads to Hamlet’s own death.
Hamlet in his first soliloquy demonstrates his disgust that his mother has allied herself in love and in politics with her late husband’s brother, so soon after his death, “frailty, thy name is woman... to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”. Claudius is clearly established as the villain in Hamlet, murdering his own brother and then plotting to kill Hamlet. He lies and is deceitful toying with the notion that the appearance of things is not their reality. The audience is privy to the ‘reality’ of Claudius ‘deed’, and of his guilt, through an aside, climactically stating, “then is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden!”.
He hints that maybe his mother is associated with his father’s murder. His madness and anger that are the products of Gertrude’s activities make him act without thinking beforehand. Ophelia commits suicide following the news of her father’s murder. Laertes and Claudius plan Hamlet’s annihilation which ends in a tragic mess with the deaths of Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes, Guildenstern, Rosencrantz, and King Claudius. So, now, the Queen, King, and Price of Denmark are all murdered all because of
In the play, Medea says “They died from disease they caught from their father.”(Line 1339) and “Is love so small a pain, do you think, for a woman?” (Line 1340) This shows that she has a desire to revenge because she is hurting by Jason. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello kills his wife by accusing her loyalty to him. For example, When Iago tries to send out rumors of Desdemona’s unfaithful relationship with Cassio, Othello commits the crime to revenge by killing Desdemona in bed and trying to send Iago to murder Cassio.