im really bad with hamlet please help?
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Gertrude is Hamlet's mother.  She is an incredibly weak character.  she is characterized like this on purpose to illustrate the "weak" nature of women.  Hamlet's most famous quote about his mother is "frailty thy name is woman".  Gertrude's husband had just died (only a few months previously) and she is already married to her dead husband's brother.  Hamlet is disgusted by her inability to be alone and her refusal to grieve for her first husband.  \n\nOphelia is not Hamlet's sister; she is his girlfriend.  She however, is forbidden to see Hamlet because her father does not approve of the relationship.  Meekly, she obeys her father's wishes as she suppresses her love for Hamlet.  \n\nSimilar or different:  probably close to the roles that women held during the time period.  Young women like Ophelia were coerced to obey their fathers.  As for Gertrude, she is more of caricature of unfavorable characteristics.
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Do your own homework. If you had a question about one quote where I could believe that you read the play but forgot the context of a single line, I would help you. As it is, you need to do your own work. Them's the rules. \n\nFurther, your questions should read: Can I get what these quotes mean and WHO is speaking to WHOM? \n\nClearly, English is not your favorite subject. But suck it up. You deserve no credit for work you ask others to do for you.
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Could you let me know what your question is? I know Shakespeare fairly well.
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just keep re-reading the sentances.... eventually you will memorize it --- keep practicing..GOOD LUCK :-)
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Hamlet is continuously wanting to do something but does nothing. He is forced to make decisions based on his moral and religious beliefs. Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can be. He is incapable of action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion when he has no time to reflect. At other times, when he is bound to act, he remains puzzled, undecided, and skeptical.
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Hamlet Act 3 only goes to Scene 4 (The Queens Closet).  You are missing Scene 5.
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Othello by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/othello/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=319\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Othello\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xOthello.html#Othello\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/othello001.html\n\nTHE ROMANTIC IAGO\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/iago001.html\n\nAntagonist \n\nIago, Othello�s ensign, is the antagonist of the play. He exploits Othello�s weakness, bringing out his fatal flaw of jealousy and making him believe that Desdemona and Cassio are having an affair. During the course of the play, Iago kills Roderigo and Emilia, his wife; and he stabs Cassio, wounding his leg. His evil scheming leads to the deaths of Desdemona and Othello. \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOthello04.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Lumos: Let me shine some light on the subject.  Just click on the 'Answer' button and it will show you a list of current questions you can look through.  When you find one you can answer, click on it and then push the large blue 'answer question' button located right under the answer.  You can also read through existing answers to make sure you're not being repetitive.  Anyway, Hermione, why don't you just cast a spell like "Anserus yahoovius inquirus!"  :)
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5 acts in a shakespearean play
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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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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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I'm not going to write one for you, but I will give you some help - you can take it or leave it.\nMost analyses of Hamlet point to Hamlet's inability to make up his mind as his tragic flaw - they would argue that Hamlet is responsible for his own fate by failing to kill Claudius in act III when he had the chance.\nOthers, however, myself included, believe Hamlet's flaw was his lust for revenge, and that is what led to so many deaths.  \nEither way, Claudius's guilt comes from the initial murder of Hamlet's father.\nI won't pretend to be a literary scholar.  But I am a high school senior who just finished an essay on Hamlet less than a month ago, so it's fresh in my mind.
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Horatio doesn't say much in act 5, scene 1. Consider that he's Hamlet's foil throughout the play, then look at Horatio's response to Hamlet's comments about the lawyers and politicians who used to be those skulls. He responds very gently to Hamlet's tirades, and seems like he's there to say, "yes, corruption is bad, but it's within some people, and they are now skulls, so they got what's coming to them" and wants to assure Hamlet to despise corruption, but tolerate it and be true to himself.\n\nLook at Horatio's first line in the scene, "Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness". It seems his function in that scene is to let Hamlet know that people are made by their social status
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OMG my class read this play recently... crap lol. i totally forgot, and my teacher took up everyones notes to grade. they would have really helped. This play was a real pain in the rear.  Although i do remember that Brutus was well respected in the Roman community, but he does wrong things, but for the right reason, of course (like the death of caesar). he thought that caesar was a threat to rome.
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Hamlet: Son of a murdered Danish king (who was also named Hamlet) and nephew of the present king, Claudius. Hamlet suffers great mental anguish over the death of his father, the marriage of his mother to the suspected murderer (Claudius), and the clash between his moral sense and his desire for revenge against his father’s murderer. To ensnare the killer, Hamlet pretends madness. Some Shakespeare interpreters contend that he really does suffer a mental breakdown. Hamlet is highly intelligent and well liked by the citizens, although at times he can be petty and cruel\n\nhttp://toolbar.google.com/buttons/gallery?sourceid=navclient&hl=en\n\ns
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It's a while since I read Romeo and Juliet. If you would like to explain what happens in Act 2 Scene 2 then I might be able to help...
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You have to be specific about the part you're not understanding. The most important part of this scene is Hal's soliloquy at the very end. It's written in blank verse showing us that Hal is capable of kingly qualities. (In the entire play, the royalty etc. talk in blank verse while the tavern people talk in prose. Hal had also been talking in prose with his friends right before this soliloquy). The soliloquy shows us his Machiavellian traits - he's capable of manipulation and knows exactly what he wants to achieve by hanging out with Falstaff etc. In the soliloquy, he also uses metaphors like sun and clouds which further show us that he is capable of becoming the king. I can give further explanations if you tell me what exactly you are having trouble with.