At the end of Scene III, Ophelia agrees to “obey.” What will she do? She agrees to obey Polonius' wish that she would stay away from Hamlet and reject his affections. The ghost told Hamlet that King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius, and it asked Hamlet to avenge the murder.
But the ghost urges Hamlet not to act against his mother in any way, telling him to “leave her to heaven” and to the pangs of her own conscience (I.v.86). Intensely moved, Hamlet swears to remember and obey the ghost. Horatio and Marcellus arrive upon the scene and frantically ask Hamlet what has happened.
The ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius killed him. He poured poison into his ear when he was in the garden and he died. He asks Hamlet to seek revenge and kill Claudius, but not to hurt Gertrude. God and her guilt will take punish her.
Polonius tells his son, "Give every man thy ear but few thy voice," which means Laertes should listen more and talk less (1.3. 69). He proceeds to tell his son to spend a significant amount of money on clothes, because appearance is important in France, and discourages Laertes from borrowing or lending money.
What does Ophelia say to this order? She will obey. She is a good girl and will do what her father says.
Horatio is worried that Hamlet may drown in the ocean, he may fall from a cliff, or that he may be so terrified by a "horrible" shape that the ghost may assume that Hamlet loses his mind from the experience.
Laertes' advice to Ophelia about Hamlet is that she should stay far away from him. He reminds her that she is the mere daughter of the King's advisor and that he is the Prince. She should not take his advances seriously because he is using her. He also advises her to remain virtuous and pure – as a young maiden should.
Ophelia kills herself because the fate of Denmark is placed on her shoulders when she is asked to more or less spy on Hamlet, her father has been murdered (by her former lover no less), from the confusion created by her father and brother with regard to the meaning of love, and her suicide is even an act of revenge.
coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night.
Ophelia enters singing fragments of songs about chaos, death, and unrequited love. The King and Queen both try to speak with her, but she replies only unintelligibly.
Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark; he is son to the late King Hamlet, and nephew to the present King Claudius. Claudius is the King of Denmark, elected to the throne after the death of his brother, King Hamlet. Claudius has married Gertrude, his brother's widow.
In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree (There is a willow grows aslant the brook), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned.
During the match, Claudius conspires with Laertes to kill Hamlet. They plan that Hamlet will die either on a poisoned rapier or with poisoned wine. The plans go awry when Gertrude unwittingly drinks from the poisoned cup and dies. Then both Laertes and Hamlet are wounded by the poisoned blade, and Laertes dies.
Laertes, son of Polonius and older brother to Ophelia, is about to go off to college. He begins his discourse with Ophelia by first stating his intentions that he is off to study abroad.
The word "wormwood" itself is a reference to a bitter extract of a plant, so Hamlet's expression is to be taken quite literally: this is a bitter moment for the family. Wormwood is an exceedingly bitter plant, and Hamlet means to say that the sentiments expressed in the speech are bitter and heart-rending.
Ophelia syndrome is the association of Hodgkin lymphoma with an autoimmune limbic encephalitis, as a result of anti-metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 antibodies (mGluR5) 1.
This chapter, however, seeks to unearth the mirror, or double to Hamlet's mother, the mother of Ophelia, never mentioned, never referenced, and never invoked, yet made present through absence as her daughter's tragedy unfolds. Ophelia's death implies her attempt to join an absent mother configured as nature.
Shakespeare's tragic hero Hamlet's fatal flaw is his failure to act immediately to kill Claudius, his uncle and murderer of his father. His tragic flaw is 'procrastination'. His procrastination, his tragic flaw, leads him to his doom along with that of the other characters he targets.
Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. She was married to the murdered King Hamlet (represented by the Ghost in the play) and has subsequently wed Claudius, his brother.
Ophelia is Polonius' daughter and Laertes' sister. Hamlet has been in love with her for a while before the play starts and has given her several gifts during their courtship until her father warns her away from him and tells her not to see him anymore.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it.
In the play, Hamlet could not marry his true love, Ophelia, because he was royalty and she a commoner. The Tiv disagreed with this also. They felt that the marriage should be permitted because since Hamlet was royalty, then he could shower Ophelia's father, Polonius, with gifts and money.
He admires and envies Fortinbras, "a delicate and tender prince," for his courage and readiness to act. Hamlet is ashamed of his own indecision.
By the end of the tragedy, Hamlet has caused the deaths of Polonius, Laertes, Claudius, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two acquaintances of his from childhood. He is also indirectly involved in the deaths of his love Ophelia (drowning) and of his mother Gertrude (poisoned by Claudius by mistake).
