Hamlet+3.1+and+3.2

4. "it were better my mother had not borne me: I am/very proud, revengeful, ambitious with more offenses/at my beck than I have thoughts to put them/in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act/them in" (3.1.133-138). I think this quotation really accurately describes Hamlet's misery at this point. He has so much of a burden to carry that he wishes he had never been born. Instead of having to deal with all this change and new and scary situations, he feels that it would be better not to be living.

7. Claudius's guilt has completely taken over. Hamlet has suggested the players put on a theatrical production that emulates the murder scene as related by the ghost and although Claudius is not directly confronted with his actions or wrongdoings, his guilt causes him to race out of the play in anger and rage. In actuality, instead of averting the blame away from himself, his behavior directly speaks to indicates his guilt. He no longer has the capacity to keep his murder plot a secret, the guilt becomes unbearable and he races out of the play when confronted with essentially a remake of the murder scene.

6. Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship has become more and more confusing. Before Polonius ever interfered with the relationship the two appeared to be extremely fond of each other and spending lots of time together and even when Polonius does get involved and Ophelia is forbidden to see Hamlet, the two still seem to be fond of each other. However, once Hamlet hears the news of Claudius's role in King Hamlet's murder and is charged to avenge the death of his father, he becomes somewhat insane and the relationship between the two becomes a little rocky and more confusing. In his madness Hamlet once claims that he never loved Ophelia and told her to "go to a nunnery." However, later on, when the two attend the play "The Mousetrap" together, there is a lot of double entendre and sexual undertones in their exchange. The relationship between the two seems to change from scene to scene and it will be interesting to see what happens to their relationship in the future.