FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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He wants to marry Ophelia.
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He wants to kidnap the Queen and hold her for ransom
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He wants to avenge his father’s death.
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He wants to be given the title to his father’s lands.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does Laertes force his way into the castle? What does he want? He wants to marry Ophelia . He wants to avenge his father’s death.
Detailed explanation-2: -His reason for wanting to kill Hamlet is that he killed his father. In addition, he wanted to do this because Hamlet had a love relationship with his sister. He feels that he must revenge for his father’s death in order for him to have peace and to keep his reputation untainted (“Hamlet’s revenge, ” para. 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -Why does Laertes force his way in? What does he want? He is upset about his father, and wants revenge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Upon learning of his father’s death, Laertes is grief stricken. He desires revenge after the murder of Polonius. Laertes’s feelings of revenge are further fueled by Claudius’s manipulation and lies. Even though Polonius’s death was an accident, Claudius convinces Laertes that Hamlet killed his father on purpose.
Detailed explanation-5: -He pondered whether to act or not, realized that killing Claudius at that instant would surely send him to heaven. Hamlet does not want him to be saved, but to suffer in hell doubtlessly how his father is suffering and having to endure a brutal punishment since he had no chance to confess his sins and be purified.