Complete 4 pages APA formatted article: Men of Royalty. Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it

Complete 4 pages APA formatted article: Men of Royalty. Then goes he to the length of all his arm,

And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,

He falls to such perusal of my face

As he would draw it. Long stayed he so.

At last, a little shaking of mine arm,

And thrice his head thus waving up and down,

He raised a sigh so piteous and profound

As it did seem to shatter all his bulk

And end his being. That done, he lets me go,

And with his head over his shoulder turned

He seemed to find his way without his eyes,

For outdoors he went without their help.p

And to the last bent their light on me.

&nbsp.He does not mention her in his soliloquy directly for he was talking in general terms. He does mention love and heartaches but such can refer to any other person. He was talking in generalities. He never did mention him after the funeral because he had other concerns more important than lamenting on loves lost. At the funeral, he spoke these words:

What is he whose grief?

Bears such an emphasis? Whose phrase of sorrow

Conjures the wand’ring stars, and makes them stand

Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,

Hamlet the Dane.

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I lov’d Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers

Could not (with all their quantity of love)

Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?

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Be buried quick with her, and so will I.

II

Hamlet is not mad. He even says:

“My pulse as doth temperately keep time

And makes as healthful music. It is not madness

That I have uttered. Bring me to the test”

He merely acts as he is in order that his ways will not be questioned nor will it be banned or forbidden. By doing this he is within the castle walls and is able to observe the King. As they say, “it is good to keep your friends close but even better to keep your enemies closer.”When he was already making comments or observations the King was quick to make provisions to send him to England.

Hamlet had a plan but he and the audience did not expect that it will end as such. Hamlet could not express a well-laid plan to the audience for he was acting like a mad man. It is a technique in writing that keeps the audience in suspense as to what are the details of his real plan is or its execution? Even now as we read it, decades after it was written we are still left thinking and speculating. I believe he was not insane as evidenced by the fact that at his death he wanted Horacio to tell his cause and that he did right. He was right.

I am dead, Horatio.

xxx That are mutes or audience to this act,

xxx Thou liv’st. report me and my cause aright

To the unsatisfied.

The need to tell others shows that he is concerned about his reputation. He even implores the audience to tell his story. A madman would not in the least bit care.

III

Why can Hamlet be ruthless with the likes of Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, and yet he seems incapable of acting against Claudius?

There are two probable reasons why Hamlet was ruthless to Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.

The first is because these men are below him in rank. This being the case, they are no concern of his. As they say, Royalty and Servant do not mix.” But this is inconsistent with how he treats Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the earlier part of the play. He calls them,

“My excellent good friends!

How dost thou, Guildenstern?

Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?”

Another probable reason is that Hamlet was already so engrossed in his present concerns that he cannot think beyond that. This would explain how he treated Ophelia and the rest of the characters in the play. He placed his full concentration more on his mother, the King, and his plan for revenge. His soliloquy tells of his struggle to give up all for his forthcoming revenge.

He cannot directly move against Claudius. But to kill a king or to bring him to justice is a monumental task. He has the court to contend with, who will all side with the king unless he has strong proof of the King's guilt. Even his mother would not come to his side, the fact that he married his uncle the new King means that she does not suspect him of killing the king. What he needed was strong proof which he did not have.