“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise,” explains the American author Shannon L. Alder. This statement illustrates that the better one is at perceiving people or situations without just the facts, one will be more wiser and receive rewards for their ability to perceive. Perception means to use one’s senses to understand certain people or situations without being told by becoming aware of hidden meanings. The way that people interpret either people or situations will ultimately affect their way of life, therefore, having knowledge of something that is not directly expressed will make one’s life much easier. Failed perception will result …show more content…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are childhood friends of Hamlet that are hired by King Claudius to attempt to find out the cause of Hamlet’s strange behaviour. Hamlet is pleased to see his old friends, but recognizes that the King and Queen have sent them to investigate him as he sees right through their lie that they have only come for a visit to see Hamlet. Later on, Hamlet even refers to them as a sponge as seen in the following quotation: “Ay, sir, that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed to be last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again” (4.2.15-21). Hamlet uses this metaphor to illustrate that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are being used by King Claudius for information whenever he pleases. Hamlet’s perception of these two helps Hamlet perceive a situation later on in the play when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern escort Hamlet on a voyage to England as they have been instructed by King Claudius because he is afraid that Hamlet will find out his secret after witnessing the play that Hamlet put together that showed a reenactment of what Claudius did to his own brother. On the …show more content…
As seen in Act 4 Scene 5, Laertes comes back to Elsinore and is angered with King Claudius over the death of his father, Polonius. Laertes becomes even more furious as he witnessed his sister, Ophelia, acting insane because of the death of their father. Claudius tells Laertes that he has every right to feel the need to avenge his father and convinces him to achieve justice by murdering the person that caused Polonius’ death: Hamlet. Laertes agrees, but much to Claudius’ dismay, at the end of the play during the sword fight in which Laertes fatally wounds Hamlet with poison, Laertes reveals to Hamlet that it was Claudius’ idea to kill him and it was his fault that Gertrude died as it as was Claudius that poisoned the goblet of wine. This revelation is in the following quotation said to Hamlet by Laertes: “Thy mother’s poisoned. I can no more. The king, the king’s to blame” (5.2.315-316). In a fury, Hamlet stabs the poisonous sword through Claudius and forces the remainder of the poisoned wine down his throat, ending the life of King Claudius. It can be seen through the misperceptions that Claudius had made that his actions resulted in his death rather than rewards had he perceived Laertes as a man that would not feel guilty for avenging his father’s death no matter
His main goal is to ensure Hamlet’s death, which is motivated by his guilt. He writes a letter to the King of England saying to execute him, which fails. He then persuades Laertes to duel with Hamlet by feeding him lies. However, guilt brings out the truth in people, and Laertes confesses during battle the truth about Claudius and his plan. Hamlet furiously stabs Claudius to death.
He blames everything on Claudius because he is the one that killed Hamlet’s father and now his mother. This give Hamlet peace about all of the events that have lead to this moment. We should learn from this that revenge in haste can be chaotic and unsuccessful. Revenge may not always be the answer, but if that is what you choose, then it needs to be well thought out and tested for flaws. I think that Laertes got the revenge that he wanted and even though it resulted in his own death as well, he got some closure that he needed.
Later, in 5.2, Hamlet explains how he returns from his journey to England and has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed. Hamlet justifies to Horatio that "they are not near my conscience… ' tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the pass and fell incensed points of mighty opposites" (Shakespeare 5.2.65-69). Hamlet's reaction to condemning Rosencrantz and Guildenstern epitomizes the superiority of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat. The comedic duo were simply submitting to the will of their King in escorting Hamlet to England.
Throughout the play Hamlet continues to act insane and even dies with the act continuing. Even after Hamlet gathers all the evidence that proves Claudius is the murder, Hamlet continues to behave in a strange way. When he mistakenly murders Polonius he does not react as a sane person would. This act enrages Laertes, who then wants to avenge his father’s death. Driven to madness by the murder of his father, Laertes, with the help of Claudius conspires to kill Hamlet.
Laertes was worried about his and his dad’s pride so he decide to murder hamlet. Laertes plans the big fencing match with Hamlet. He tricked hamlet and poisoned the tip of his sword. After he poisoned the tip of his sword everything went downhill. Laertes was being greedy because he wanted his dad to be king and stay king.
He is pretending to care about Hamlet out of friendly concern, however Rosencrantz's true motive is to gain the king's acceptance. Hamlet was aware of his motives and therefore called him a sponge, meaning that he absorbs the king's favours and once the information has reached to king it is soaked out. The "sponge" term is similar in my life when my parents give me orders to complete my chores and I absorb these commands. Also occurs when I gain some kind of information and I transfer it to someone else who requested the information. 2.
and Rosencrantz wonders “How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?” (2.3. 337 -341). On the other hand, the way she treated Guildenstern in the scene with suspicion was because of the ghost of his father appearing to him and revealing his killer. The prince was aware that Guildenstern was a spy for Claudius and when she says she has been send by his mother the queen “ The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me to you.” Hamlet replies “You are welcome” using a puppet to mock her, Guildenstern replies “Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed.
Redemption, is the action, regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing debt. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, redemption is a common focus for the protagonist Hamlet, followed by Old King Fortinbras’ son, Fortinbras, and Laertes. These ambitious men embark on a quest for truth and redemption because of the loss of their father’s. In spite of the fluctuations in their quest, their journey for truth and redemption is successful because Fortinbras, Laertes and Hamlet all avenge their fathers’ deaths. Through Active Reversal, Fortinbras’ quest was successful, by Laertes’ Fear of Betrayal his quest to kill Hamlet was successful.
Hamlet eventually kills Claudius like his father told him to, but only did it after his mother, Gertrude, drank the poison that Claudius meant to give Hamlet. This is a result of external action from all the sorrows that was building up in Hamlet’s life. This brings us to our next character, Gertrude, Claudius’s wife and Hamlets
Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother… Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.” Laertes shows he is impulsive when he says he is going to kill Hamlet with a poisoned sword.
Plus Claudius continues to see if he can find out what is causing his madness. In addition,when Hamlet’s deceitful friends look for Polonius’s body and asks Hamlet where it is,Hamlet said,”You sir are a sponge. Yes,sir,a sponge that soaks up the king’s approval,his rewards,and his decisions”(Shakespeare 218-219). This behavior showed disloyalty and not telling the truth. When they look for the old man’s corpse and they go to Hamlet he tells them to go to his uncle to serve as slaves who will be paid instead of working for Hamlet to just serve him for friendship.
Throughout the play Hamlet, it is discovered that Hamlet goes through many ordeals in such a short period of time and these ordeals altered his perspective on life. In the play, we learn what Hamlet’s perspective is, how his perspective is formed, and how it affects the meaning of the play. To begin with, through Hamlet soliloquies, we learn what Hamlet’s perspective on life is. At the beginning of the play, it is revealed that Hamlet believes life is worthless. This is evident in his “to be or not to be” soliloquy.
Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, Nor thine on me,” here Laertes is saying that the revenge was not worth it for either of them, and he does not blame Hamlet for the outcome of Laertes’ revenge but himself. While Hamlet’s and Laertes’ revenge are the two major revenges in the play, there is another smaller revenge which plays big into the
3.3.72-73), Hamlet says, as he is debating whether or not to kill the king as he prays and thinks to himself if he kills him now then the king will just go to heaven because he is praying. Because of him overthinking the murder of Claudius and not taking action at the time he was able to, he had created a domino effect of events. Hamlet finally followed through with his plan after a long time of thinking, but he had killed Polonius. Polonius’ murder led to Ophelia committing suicide and Laertes getting involved and wanting to venge on Hamlet for killing his
Although the audience and certain characters realize it 's a play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern remain oblivious. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are forced to fill certain previously determined roles, because their actions are limited by the scope of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Nassar 1). Because of this, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s fate remains predetermined as they are incapable of escaping their respective roles, which leads to their demise. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are hopelessly lost because they allow themselves to controlled by