HAMLET

The flowers appear when she loses her mind, she represents each flower for a event. her pain of betrayal is distributed through the flowers.

Religion

Literary Devices

Quotes

LEGEND

Claudius

Victim of revenge

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By: Nidhi Kapoor

HAMLET

REVENGE

Honour

Hamlets idea to avenge his father is connected to his honour as a "good son"

The extent a family member would go to in order to gain a good stand in ones eyes

"So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear" (I.Iv,10)

The relationship between revenge and honour, and the duty of a son to take revenge on behalf of his father

Laertes and Fortinbras as they felt it is their duty to avenge their father's death

Starts from

The Ghost

shows

Dramatic irony

The audience knows something the characters do not

The ghost, Hamlet and audience know the truth about king Hamlet's death

The other Characters do not

Depicts motif, mischief and distrust

Is the root of

Hamlets desire to kill Claudius and avenge his Father

Similar to

Laertes mission of avenging his fathers death

Mission of justice

With different approches

Laertes

Is hot headed, and ready to go to any extent to get revenge

is setting up a plan

A factor of

Religion is played

Where

Laertes is not affected by his beliefs when it comes to revenge

“To cut his throat i’th’ church” (IV.vii. 98)

This proves that laertes will stop at nothing for revenge

Hamlet declines to kill Claudius while he is praying, for fear of sending him to heaven

Instead

Hamlet decides to kill him while he is committing a sin such as drinking, angry or mad

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action." III, III.

This shows

A rise in climax where Hamlet awaits

Hamlets's desire of revenge being put into action

Christian morality

He knows that Claudius has killed his father, he wants to know if the punishment will be enough, he again waits to get get revenge on Claudius

Leads to

Death

Is cooperated through

Symbolism

poison

Symbol through the play, it represents betrayal, deception and anger

Fencing sword

The end of Hamlet's quest

A person hunting courage, bravery and will to exact revenge

Symbolizes violence and death

Skull

Yorick's skull is shown in the graveyard

Of decay and disease are used repeatedly throughout the play

The corrupt state of Denmark

The death of old Hamlet and the marriage of Gertrude and Claudius

Is that the moral value of society is rotting because of the dishonest and corrupt behaviour of the leaders of the nations

Graveyard

It signifies we are all equal

It is a symbol of death, decay and uselessness of a person after death. it makes Hamlet think of his own destiny and his own life after death

Anyone who is involved in the revenge plan ends up dead

Revenge is a tragedy that kills Hamlet along with 8 others

Hamlet has a plan to kill Claudius, but kills polonius, which leads his son Laertes to kill hamlet, and the king of Norway wants revenge on his father

Each Character

Is concerned with what the other is really thinking

Everyone is hiding their true feelings and intentions

That you dont really know what someones true intentions are and if you can trust them

Madness

Influences

Hamlet

By saying he is going to fake his "Madness"

But

His madness turns into something deeper such as in his solilaquy

To be, or not to be

A subconscious within Hamlet that he doesn't even know, meaning there is something in his mind that even he isn't aware of

It incorporates

That he is not directly implying what he is talking about, it shows him playing with the idea of suicide and building his courage

His inner feelings, thoughts and emotions giving us a chance to understand what his thoughts can lead to

I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on (I.v.)

Ophelia

By the death of her Father

Her to go mad

Her reliance on the men in her life, as her father died and Hamlet has left her

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts... There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died

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Her irrational reaction to her fathers death, it is as if she had no motif and has lost her personal identity within the death of her father

victim of revenge

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are killed due to Hamlet changing the note

Claudius is

A sign of bad luck in Hamlets life, he was used to take all the good out of hamlets life, he also did not like hamlet as he was a threat to him

"O Gertrude, Come away! The sun no sooner shall this mountains touch but we will ship him hence"

Ophelia and Gertrude, as they are the two women in Hamlet's life, he is driven to violence against them

Gender inequality as in the play it is shown that these women only rely on the men in their life and loose their personal identity once something happens to the men

‘I shall obey my lord’ (hamlet I iii 139)

A deeper meaning of reality

This shows that women are looked upon as innocent and have no value to their opinion as the men are the ones who make the decisions

‘green girl’

Hamlet's anger, leads him to not trust either of them. As he is betrayed by his mother for marrying his uncle and he suspects Ophelia in plotting against him

His passion of sending Hamlet away as he wanted to get rid of him

After

The death of Polonius, Claudius has an excuse to send Hamlet away

Foreshadows

On upcoming events in Denmark

Symbolizes

Tough times coming for Hamlet and the other characters