The ghost could appear and disappear at will. He need the guards to see him, so they would pass the word on to Hamlet. He needed Hamlet to see him in order to send Hamlet on the road to revenge. She certainly believes him to be crazy as the scene begins, for she allows Polonius to spy on their conversation.
After Hamlet accuses her of her sins, however, she probably recognizes his sanity. In Hamlet Act IV, scene iii, the main reason that Claudius cannot take political action against Hamlet is that the people of Denmark love him. Hamlet is the first son of Denmark, a popular prince whom many feel deserved the crown after his father died.
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Dead , for a ducat, dead! O me, what hast thou done? As kill a king, and marry with his brother. It causes Laertes to become angry and seek revenge against Claudius, which eventually makes him seek revenge against Hamlet. It also causes Ophelia to go crazy and eventually die on bad terms with the king and queen too. Claudius attempts to soothe him by frankly acknowledging that Polonius is dead.
Polonius is a proud and concerned father. In his first line he tells us he hesitates to let his son Laertes go abroad, and he draws out his last meeting with Laertes because he's reluctant to see him go. Polonius also provides Hamlet with its main source of comic relief. 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.
First, Laertes is cut by his own sword's blade, and, after revealing to Hamlet that Claudius is responsible for the queen's death, he dies from the blade's poison. Hamlet then stabs Claudius through with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink down the rest of the poisoned wine.
Hamlet storms into the room and asks his mother why she has sent for him. She says that he has offended his father, meaning his stepfather, Claudius. He interrupts her and says that she has offended his father, meaning the dead King Hamlet , by marrying Claudius. I was killed i' th' Capitol. Hamlet and Laertes both blame Claudius for the death of their fathers.
Interestingly, Hamlet never expresses a sense of guilt over Ophelia's death , which he indirectly caused through his murder of Polonius. Despite the evidence that Hamlet is actually mad , we also see substantial evidence that he is just pretending.
The most obvious evidence is that Hamlet himself says he is going to pretend to be mad , suggesting he is at least sane enough to be able to tell the difference between disordered and rational behavior. Claudius explains that he acted as he did , burying Polonius secretly and not punishing Hamlet for the murder , because both the common people and the queen love Hamlet very much. The king speculates that if Hamlet could be tempted into a duel with Laertes, it might provide Laertes with the chance to kill him.
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