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This 3 page paper discusses the play "Hamlet" and contains a poem based on the play. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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play, but know its title character well enough to decide on a subject for the poem. Hamlet is a very complex person psychologically, and many questions arise out of his
emotional state. The most important is probably, Why does he delay so long before taking his revenge on Claudius? He has his fathers statement that Claudius murdered him (the elder
Hamlet) and that is exactly what he tells Hamlet, and still Hamlet goes through the device of having the players act out a similar crime in order to confirm the
kings guilt. The student might want to consider revenge as a theme. There is also the question of Hamlets relationships with women. The two we know of are the one
with his mother, and with Ophelia, and both are troubled. The text will support the argument that he and Ophelia are lovers, because Polonius warns Ophelia to stay away from
him: "Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star; This must not be" (II, ii, 141-142). There are also other lines that we can argue mean they are
intimate. Of course we can also take the opposite position, that they are just friends and possibly innocent sweethearts, and argue that successfully as well. Thus, this is probably not
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he turns on her viciously, and with strong sexual overtones, such
that we wonder why the idea of his mother being sexually active (she is still a young woman) is so disgusting to him. One critic suggests that his dislike of
her stems from the fact that she has lived while he has merely observed (de Madariaga); however, the complexity of the Gertrude/Hamlet relationship is such that it too is probably
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