Activity 1.6

The reason for hamlets outrageous behavior is the death of his father and when his uncle Claudius marries his mother, Gertrude. He is emotionally struck by these events which cause him to change and become someone that nobody seemed to like; even Horatio had some doubts about him. Hamlets ability to give speech or to talk to the public is amazing. He is able to catch the attention of the crowd and easily persuade anyone with words. When they were all attending the play with the actors, hamlets interrupts and gives a speech that pretty much rattled the crowd with curiosity and fear, because of the facts he was telling about the king. Hamlets actions are quite noticeable throughout the play as you notice he kills Polonius and simple cleans up the area by dragging his bleeding body out of the kings room and hides it, without regret. He acts abruptly with Ophelia during many scenes when he grabs her by the arm, shoves her face into the glass window, touches her face unnoticeably, which puts her into a frantic. His thoughts and feeling are obviously out of touch and indeed changed because of all the drama he is been through and going through the whole play. Claudius notices the changes in hamlet during the time when he interrupted the actors and finally new that hamlet new about how Claudius killed his father and from that point on it was hell for the both of them. Claudius ordered the death of hamlet and that he is captured while hamlets goals were to kill Claudius to avenge his father. Hamlets mother Gertrude notices the madness and sudden change in hamlet from the beginning but just believes that it’s all because of the death of old hamlet. Horatio helps hamlet throughout the play even though he my notice a change for the worse in him, because that’s what friends do you stick around and help them. Finally Ophelia obviously noticed the change in hamlet and for this reason stayed away form him because he was violent but she did not know how much he really loved her.