Hamlet

Hamlet

1. He has problems preventing him from being like Laertes

2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are there for comic relief

   • They are Claudius' spies

3. Gertrude knew who killed her husband

   • Is she choosing between Hamlet and Claudius

4. He doesn't present himself as an archetype

   • Hamlet is struggling with his indentity

5. Young Fortenbras

6. Critisizes his own manhood

   • Pathos
   • Is the mood really as it should be?
     • Is he really mad or is he playing the fool?
       • To be or not to be: his soliloquy