Write a note on Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, and Claudius

Write a note on Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, and  Claudius

Hamlet is the story of Denmark’s prince. Hamlet: A revenge play, tragedy. A play concerned with son’s revenge for the murder of his father. Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, the title is character and the protagonist.

Important characters in Hamlet:

·     Hamlet: is the main character he is hero of the play

·     Claudius: present king of Denmark

·     Gertrude: queen of Denmark

·     Polonius: Claudius’s chief counselor and father of Ophelia and Laertes

·     Laertes: son of Polonius

·     Ophelia: daughter of Polonius she is heroine of the play, she deeply love with Hamlet

·     The ghost: in the play appears in Hamlet’s father

·     Horatio: good friend of Hamlet

·     Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: both are childhood friends and school mates of Hamlet

·     Fortinbras: king of Norway

·     Ronaldo: is a spy Polonius send to him reason is spying of his son

·     Now we deeply understand some major character

Ophelia:  Ophelia was a mysterious character she was Polonius’s daughter, a young beautiful woman.

Ophelia a sweet and innocent girl who obeys her father and her brother Laertes. She has been love with Hamlet.

She has the potential to become a tragic heroine she never really played a big role in the book, but yet she seemed really important.

            Ophelia is an independent young woman, she has an older brother Laertes, who doesn’t seem to treat her best or look at her like. She is independent but still he protective her.

              Ophelia acts like a young lady who is in love she is very mature.

We witness Hamlet’s evaluation or de-evaluation into a man convinced that all women are whores; Ophelia herself is not as important as her reprentation of dual nature of woman in the play. Her biggest fall was how trusting she was, thinking that she would be able to tell if someone lying to her.

A big scene that happened that she wasn’t in that almost definitely had effect on her where Hamlet kills her father. After that time her character changes.

She is no involved with matter of state, She is incapable of defending herself. She is mad.

Ophelia has good reason to unaware of the harsh realities of life. She was found a pond, it didn’t look like a murder but successful suicide.

Polonius: He is a courtier and father of Ophelia and Laertes Polonius is a man, confidents of his Knowledge proud of his eloquence  and declining into deotage.

Such a man is positive and confident because he knows that his mind was once strong and knows not that it is become weak, while he depends upon his memory.

His injunction to Laertes and Ophelia are clear and terse.

Polonius is the complacement, wisearre, infatuate in opinion, precipitate in action and usually wrong.

He is not wholly or obviously a fool nor extremely ridiculous at all.

He can occupy his high place with dignity enough.

He obeys claudius’s order. He could be more economical with his words.

Gertrude: She is a very important character in the play. Gertrude is a very sexual being it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her.

She marries her dead husband’s brother, King Claudius. She is central figure in the play. Many critic believes that Gertrude had been the lover of Claudius even before Hamlet’s father had died.

We can say about Gertrude tnat she is “self-sacrificing mother”. She was not a bad hearted woman but she had a short animal nature. She was genuinely attached her son. She loves her son and does not betray him, she gives her husband a false account of Polonius’s death, and silence about the appearance of Ghost.

Hamlet’s most famous comment about Gertrude : “Frailty thy name is woman!”

Gertrude inadvertently drinks poison and dies. Her last words show affection towards her son. She does not confess to any sins before she dies. She dies at the cost of her son Hamlet.

Claudius:  The present king of Denmark. Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. We can day that he is villain of the play.

Hamlet’s major antagonist is a shrewd, lustful, conniving king who contrasts sharply with the other male character in the play.

He succeeds the throne by murdering his brother and marrying his sister-in-low.

He is devious and manipulative. His all thoughts are dirty. He is so evil, he really didn’t want to marry Gertrude, but the kingdom needed him. Claudius is wrong by moral standards.

Claudius was a ‘politician’ a man  who lived by dropping poison into other people’s ears. Somehow he repent his brother’s murder. He prays a God.

In act-3 scene-3 Claudius’s words like this;

“ Oh my offence it semeels to heaven….it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t A brothers murder, Forgive me my foul murder!” It shows his repent his bad deeds are not gave him a sleep.

At the end of the play objection has been made to Hamlet’s forcing to liquor on the king Claudius….

Death of Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius, Claudius are shown in the play..