How do Hamlet's feeling toward Ophelia change?
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Well, at first, Hamlet feels love towards Ophelia. He expresses this during Act One where he talks to her. Polonius and Laertes, then, advises Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet because they do not trust him.\n\nThe King and Polonius, then, suddenly devises a plot where they would find evidence of Hamlet's madness for love for Ophelia by having her talk to him while they eavesdrop on their conversation. From this point on, Hamlet realizes that everyone should be not trusted. He tells Ophelia to go to a nunery instead because men are evil. I think this is how Hamlet's feeling change - from love to concern.
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I would just be that person that he feel in love with at the beginning, I would not try to change nothing about our relationship, because I have to remember what he feel in love with from the beginning.  So, I will just continue treating him like the king he is...
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1. Conflict shown between Montagues and Capulets.  The Price of Padua bans all fighting.  Romeo crashes a Capulet party, sees Juliet, and forgets all about some other woman he was in love with before.  Later he climbs up on Juliet's balcony and finds out she loves him back.  They kiss.\n\n2. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married and find a willing priest to marry them.  Romeo and Tybalt (Juliet's brother) get into an argument and Mercutio (Romeo's friend) gets in the way.  Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt.  Juliet hears of this news and is upset.  Romeo is banished by the Prince and must flee Padua.\n\n3.  In order to flee Padua to be with Romeo (now her husband) Juliet takes poison to feign death.  Juliet's nurse is supposed to tell Romeo but she is harassed by Romeo's friends, gets angry, and doesn't give anyone the message.  Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead, visits her crypt, takes some poison, and drinks.  He dies.  Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo dead, takes his dagger, and kills herself.  Everyone else find them lying together and is very sorry.\n\nUpdate:  Both the Montagues and the Capulets are rival noble families in Padua (Italy).  They are not of different social classes, they're just mad at each other.
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The references to Hamlet.  According to A.C. Bradley's theory of Hamlet, Hamlet's heroic characteristic was his powers of observation.  I picked up on the similarites between the movie "V for Vendetta" and Hamlet after V repeatedly says that the female character is "very observant".  \n\nBoth V and the female character were "reborn" in their own way.  V was reborn through the flames of the medical experiment facility.  The female Character was reborn after her UNREAL experience, but became a new person after she came to the conclusion that she should not be afraid. \n\n This is very similar to Hamlet, where Hamlet's fater the former king rose from the dead and from Purgatory.  Purgatory is similar hell, because Hamlet's fater complains of the Horrors that he must experience during the daytime.  Hamlet through out the play is liveing an UNREAL life.  He is constanlty hiding his thoughts and intentions from everyone he knows just as the female character does from the facist society that she lives in.  Hamlet is reborn by realizing that "readyness is all", meaning that the world is waiting for you and you need to live in the moment.\n\nHamlet's father came from a Hell-like place just as V did.  Hamlet avioded conflict at all costs and had the "Heart of a Poet" just as the female character did.\n\nMany countries banned the play Hamlet, because it was about overthrowing a king.  This is similar to what that rediculous NY Times reporter said about the movie.
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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people change..it all depends on how she changed........if you love her, you can deal with it
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hamlet was insane, so it's hard to know if he really saw the ghosts or not. as nietzsche said: "always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness." maybe the insane see what the rest of us won't.
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If he had just killed the king at that point, there wouldn't be much of a story, now would there?\n\nNow as for other reasons: he could have thought it would send the king to heaven if he was killed while praying, Hamlet can never really make up his mind about anything. I think it was just second guessing himself.
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Try sparknotes.com you may be able to find an analysis of the play.\n\nPesonally, I sometimes need the extra help because I don't know what Shakespheare is talking about.
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depends on what do you feel about this person
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Well since Shakespere has a play out there called Henry V how about:\n\nTo Manipulate or Not to Manipulate, That is the question...
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Online original text:\nhttp://omacl.org/DanishHistory/\n\nHeres some links:\nhttp://www.pitt.edu/~dash/amleth.html\nhttp://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/history/amleth.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(legend) (gotta have wikipedia)\n\nHeres some recommended texts:\n- Malone, Kemp. The Literature History of Hamlet: The Early Tradition. New York: Haskell House, 1964.\n- Taylor, Marion A. A New Look at the Old Sources of Hamlet. The Netherlands: Mouton & Co, 1968. \n\nAs cute as it is, star trek also has an Amleth\nhttp://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Amleth_Prime
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but if you are asking who has control over who, in the entire play, then you're asking the million dollar question. Scholars have argued this many different ways for a long time, but essentially, the if there is one true master of control it has to be Iago, who after getting passed up for a military promotion over the Moor Othello, Iago befriends Othello and skillfully, bit by bit convinces him that his pretty wife, Desdemona, who happens to be white, is cheating on him. Conflicted, Othello ends up killing her only to later realize what Iago was doing to him. \n\nIago is one Shakepeare's greatest villian, a dispicable characther that controls all the action in Othello.  So does that answer your question?
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Each of the quotes has it's own particular merit. The first one describes Hamlet as having an Oedipus complex, an unnatural love and fixation for his mother, even at the expense of his father.\n\nThe second seems to put Hamlet's feelings as being caused by self pity and low self-esteem. both of which then affect his decisions but only in an adverse, or bad, way.\n\nThe third by Laurence Olivier, who was a great actor, possibly the best there has ever been, and who played Shakespearean roles hundreds of times, is my favourite. You'd think, therefore, that he would know. What he refers to here is the famous 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy where Hamlet is trying to decided whether or not to commit suicide and, as Olivier so succinctly puts it, 'a man who could not make up his mind'.
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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He is interested in what is going on in his daughter’s life and knows how to get to her through his words and actions. He is also a wise man in the sense he knows what Hamlet wants from his daughter. Most of the advice that Polonius said is very worldly advice...advice of a man that understood the world.