Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. Hamlet, I, ii, 56-58
He is the first to believe that Hamlet’s madness is the result of Ophelia rejecting him. He is accidentally killed by Hamlet while eavesdropping on a
conversation between Hamlet and Gertrude. It can bee seen from these quotation below:
Hamlet: Mother, mother, mother Queen : Ill warrant you, fear me not:
Withdraw, I hear him coming. [Polonius hides behind the arras.]
Hamlet: Now, mother, whats the matter? Queen : Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended
Hamlet: Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you. Queen : What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?
Help, ho Polonius Behind: What, ho Help
Hamlet: Drawing his sword. How now a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead
Stabs through the arras. Polonius Behind: O, I am slain
Falls and dies. Hamlet, III, iv, 5-25
3.2.2 Laertes
He is the son of Polonius, a young man who spends much of the play in France. Passionate and quick to action. He retuned to Denmark when he learned
that his father had been killed. He fought hamlet in a fencing match at the end, and killed Hamlet by slashing him with a poisoned foil. It can be seen from these
quotations below:
Laertes : Come, one for me Hamlet : Ill be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance
Your skill shall, like a star I the darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed.
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Laertes : You mock me, sir Hamlet : No, by this hand.
Laertes : This is too heavy, let me see another. Hamlet : This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
They prepare to play. Hamlet, V, ii, 254-265
3.2.3 The Ghost
The Ghost is a character that does not spend much time on stage but has a very meaningful position in the play. During the course of the first act, The Ghost
looks very much like Hamlet’s dead father. It can be seen from these quotation below:
“In the same figure like the king that’s dead.” Hamlet, I, I, 42
3.2.4 Horatio
He is Hamlet’s close friend, who studied with the prince at the university in Wittenberg. Horatio is loyal and helpful to Hamlet through out the play. After
Hamlet’s death, Horatio remains to tell Hamlet’s story. It can be seen from these
quotations below: Horotio: The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever
Hamlet: Sir, my good friend; Ill change that name with you: And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?
Horotio: A truant disposition, good my lord. Hamlet, I, ii, 163-169
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3.2.5 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Two slightly bumbling courtiers, former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg, who are summoned by Claudius and Gertrude to discover the cause of
Hamlet’s strange behavior. It can be seen from these quotations below:
Rosencrantz: He does confess he feels himself distracted; But from what cause a will by no means speak.
Guildenstern:Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,
When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.
Queen :Did he receive you well? Rosencrantz :Most like a gentleman.
Guildenstern:But with much forcing of his disposition. Queen :Did you assay him
To any pastime? Rosencrantz: Madam, it so fell out, that certain players
We oer-raught on the way.Of these we told him; And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it. They are about the court, And, as I think, they have already order
This night to play before him. King :With all my heart; and it doth much content me
To hear him so inclined. Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
And drive his purpose into these delights Rosencrantz :We shall, my lord.
Hamlet, III, I, 5-28
3.2.6 Marcellus and Bernardo
The officers who first see the ghost walking the ramparts of Elsinore and
who summon Horatio to witness it. It can bee seen from these quotation below: Marcellus: Holla Barnardo
Bernardo : Say— What, is Horatio there? Horatio : A piece of him.
Marcellus: Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.
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Horatio : What, has this thing appeared again tonight? Bernardo : I have seen nothing.
Last night of all,
When yond same star thats westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one—
Enter Ghost Marcellus:Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes
again
Bernardo :In the same figure, like the king thats dead. See, it stalks away
Horatio :Stay speak, speak I charge thee, speak Exit Ghost
Marcellus:Tis gone, and will not answer. Hamlet, I, i, 18-52
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CHAPTER 4
ANALYSIS OF HAMLET’S HATRED TOWARDS SOME OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY
In this sub-chapter, the writer would analyze the hatred found in the play ‘HAMLET” by William Shakespeare. This analysis will be parted into three
parts; they are Hamlet’s hatred towards Claudius his uncle, Gertrude, and Ophelia.
