What does Hamlet admit to Horatio and the audience just before the company arrives to view the play? Hamlet admits to Horatio that he had staged the play being played so that he can catch Claudius in guilty conscience. He asks Horatio to watch the reactions of Claudius, for only a guilty man will panic.

Horatio is concerned that the presence of the ghost means that war is on its way. Horatio decides to tell Hamlet about the ghost and bring him to see it in the hope that the ghost may speak to him.

Horatio is afraid that the ghost will try to hurt or kill Hamlet (specifically tempts him to jump into the sea). Hamlet wants to follow it and says he does not care about his life and the ghost can’t hurt his soul.

What news is revealed in Hamlet’s letter to Horatio? What does this show about Hamlet? Hamlet was kept a prisoner on a pirates ship. It shows that hamlet fought for the others on his ship because they could not sail away fast enough.

Why does Hamlet send letters to Horatio and the king in act 4, scene 6 and act 4, scene 7 to signify his return to Denmark? Hamlet wants his friend Horatio to know that he is safe and also asks him to help convey the other letters to Claudius. He also raises suspicion about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience possesses an insight which at least one of the characters lacks. In act 5, scene 2, the audience is aware that Claudius plans to use the fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes as an opportunity to finally rid himself of his nephew. This is a moment of dramatic irony.

The dramatic irony here is the king telling Hamlet (and Gertrude) that he will send him to England to be safe, but the audience knows that he is really sending him to England to be killed. Later, in act 4, scene 4, Horatio receives a letter from Hamlet, and the audience now knows more than the king.

Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet’s opponent and Hamlet himself are all killed.

What does Claudius’s aside in Scene 1, lines 50-55, reveal about him? His aside tells the audience that he did, indeed, kills his brother. His crudeness also suggests his disgust with her, which has its source in the disgust he feels for his mother because she married Claudius soon after her husband’s death.

Hamlet doesn’t kill Claudius at this point because he believes that Claudius is praying. He says that killing the king NOW would be “hire and salary, not revenge!” He simply cannot send Claudius to heaven, where he would surely go were he killed just after praying and purging his sins.

Hamlet kills Polonius by mistake, but he feels no guilt for killing him. After staging the “Mousetrap,” or the play with in the play, to test his theory that Claudius planned and carried out the king’s death. After Claudius runs screaming for light, Hamlet follows his mother to her confront her about what she has done.

″Hamlet is one of the most thoughtful men who ever considered the act of murder,″ Stone added. The jury of volunteers from the audience agreed – and they went further. Not only was Hamlet criminally responsible for Polonius’ killing, jurors said he might also be guilty of driving Ophelia to her death.

How does Hamlet react when he sees Polonius’s body? He hears the cry and thinks it is Claudius; He calls Polonius a fool. King Hamlet and Claudius in order to contrast the goodness of the former with the evil of the latter.