Question 5
Hamlet expresses his views through a soliloquy which is full of decorative language. The character Hamlet continues his miserable behavior throughout the soliloquy. The feelings are expressed in the soliloquy, which reveals the Hamlet’s true thoughts because it is a speech of his thoughts from inside his heart. He is mentally disturbed which is proved by the famous line, to be or not to be-that is the question.
Here he is questioning whether to live or to end his life. He asks himself whether it would be nobler to suffer through the pains of life or to take the challenge and choose death which he does not know what is it is like. Hamlet wants to choose the best path which suits him, including avenging his father’s death. He is not afraid of it and is willing to “take arms against a sea of troubles” by ending his life. Hamlet then continues thinking about death and compares it as sleeping. Ending all the aspects of his life is what he really wants to do especially forgetting the memory of his tragic father’s murder and his mother betraying.
Hamlet begins to focus on sleeping and dreams. The line “To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream” is written in iambic pentameter. He then says people do not know what dreams may come true and is the reason why people suffer through the disastrous life. This part sums up the relationship between people and death. Hamlet also mentions that people are born cowards and live through life as cowards because they are afraid of death. If a person lives his life as a coward, there will be no excitement in life. Even though a person believes he is brave, he is still afraid to die. Hamlet is unable to make the right choice because his sense of right and wrong is creating fear and that fear is stopping Hamlet to choose death. Hamlet’s mental state is not right. After the ghost of King Hamlet reveals to junior Hamlet about the murder he takes the heavy burden on his shoulders avenging his father. His emotions are trapped inside himself and he sees death as a solution to end his suffering.
Question 3
intends to prove that an unsatisfied desire for is the cause of Prince Hamlet's madness. He plants his daughter in Hamlet's path and hides with King Claudius to spy on them to see if Hamlet is acting to if he has gone mad for real.
Hamlet enters and is surprised by the unexpected person Ophelia. Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a nun, shouting. Ophelia regrets that her dear Prince Hamlet has transformed into a crazy man. King Claudius suspects that some deep 0distress is the cause of Hamlet's mad behavior and not his love for Ophelia.
Using this excuse Claudius decides to send the crazy Prince on a journey to England. Polonius did not believe that Ophelia's rejection caused the Prince to go mad. He suggests to King Claudius that Queen Gertrude speak to her son about the matter in private.
Another thing that annoys Hamlet is that they treat him as having no intelligence at all, like a fool, as well as a mad man. This sxene is also famous because during this scene is the famous ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy.
Question 4
Before the act 3 scene 1 Hamlet has to get over a lot things which affected the state of his mind. The first thing that happens to him is his father is murdered by his own uncle. This is the first and biggest thing which affects his mind. Next his mum marries his uncle so soon after the death of his dad that the left over food from the funeral could have been used in the weeding reception. This is the next thing which also affects the state of his mind.
Question 7
In Hamlet although Hamlet dies, it is for the best because how can he live the rest of his life with his parents and Ophelia dead. Before Hamlet dies he is able to kill the king Claudius and gets rid of the evil ruling. Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic play. The play Hamlet has all the good qualities needed to be a tragic play. He also is also loyal this is the reason which made him kill the king Claudius because Claudius killed his dad. Hamlet was dating Ophelia for a long time but never got to marry her. He had just lost his father and his mother remarried so quickly, they could have used the leftover food from the funeral in the wedding. Hamlet loved his parents and all of the sudden there were changes in his life which were hurting him.
The first character to die in Hamlet is Polonius. Although Polonius often acts in a sneaky manner when dealing with Hamlet this is because in the play he work for the king and queen. He gets killed by Hamlet because when hamlet goes in his mums room to talk to her about his fathers death he thinks that its king Claudius hiding behind the curtain and kills him with his sword. This makes Polonius’s death the first tragedy.
The next member to die is Ophelia. Ophelia’s death because she was completely innocent and used by Hamlet. The death of her dad causes Ophelia to become crazy and leads to her death in a river near the castle. This is the second tragedy.
The next member to die is Laertes, Ophelia’s brother and Polonius’s son. Laertes’ death is tragic because although he kills Hamlet he is just avenging his father’s death. Laertes gets stabbed by the poisonous sword and he dies. Next Gertrude dies when she drinks a poisonous drink which was made for Hamlet by Claudius. Hamlet sees his mum dieing this is when he goes mad his mum and dad have died because of Claudius so hamlet kills Claudius and after that Hamlet dies himself because he get a cut from Laertes poisonous sword during the fencing. So as you can see nearly all of the characters die towards the end of the play.
Hamlet modern translation
The question for him was whether to continue to exist or not - whether it was more noble to suffer the slings and arrows of an unbearable situation, or to declare war on the sea of troubles that afflict one, and by opposing them, end them. To die. He pondered the prospect. To sleep - as simple as that. And with that sleep we end the heartaches and the thousand natural miseries that human beings have to endure. It's an end that we would all ardently hope for. To die. To sleep. To sleep. Perhaps to dream. Yes, that was the problem, because in that sleep of death the dreams we might have when we have shed this mortal body must make us pause. That's the consideration that creates the calamity of such a long life. Because, who would tolerate the whips and scorns of time; the tyrant's offences against us; the contempt of proud men; the pain of rejected love; the insolence of officious authority; and the advantage that the worst people take of the best, when one could just release oneself with a naked blade? Who would carry this load, sweating and grunting under the burden of a weary life if it weren't for the dread of the after life - that unexplored country from whose border no traveler returns? That's the thing that confounds us and makes us put up with those evils that we know rather than hurry to others that we don't know about. So thinking about it makes cowards of us all, and it follows that the first impulse to end our life is obscured by reflecting on it. And great and important plans are diluted to the point where we don't do anything.
