In Hamlet what are 3 references to characters not being what they seem to be

Characters not what they seem to be:

(1)
Hamlet planned to feign madness:
Act 1, Scene 5
Hamlet
.As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on,

(2)
Rosencrantz &Guildenstern pretended to have come to Elsinore to visit Hamlet. Really they had been sent for by Claudius to spy on Hamlet.
Act 2, scene 2
Hamlet
.what make u at Elsinore?
Rosencrantz
To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.
Hamlet
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I
thank you: & sure, dear friends, my thanks r
too dear a halfpenny. Were u not sent for? Is it
your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come,
deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.

(3)
Polonius advised Reynaldo to spy on his son:
Act 2 Scene 1
Polonius
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
And thus do we of wisdom & of reach,
With windlasses & with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out:
So by my former lecture & advice,
Shall u my son. You have me, have u not?

Compare & contrast Hamlet with Laertes & Fortinbras:
Short answer: All were sons revenging murdered fathers. Fortinbras emphasized the land that had been lost with his father is death. If he could not recover that, any other worthless plot would do, & he did not hesitate to sacrfice his followers' lives. Laertes was willing to go to hell for revenge, he confronted the king with a mob at his back, & he was not very careful to get his facts straight. Hamlet did not care about worthless dirt. He wanted to be sure he was doing the right thing, & he shook hands & parted with his friends to avoid implicating them in his conflict with the king. Never ''did king sigh alone yet Hamlet returned ''naked & alone.''

Laertes subverts his own life so totally & unthinkingly to filial duty that he is willing to go to hell to revenge his father is death (4,5,131). Although he is satisfied in nature with Hamlet’s repentance, he continues the fatal duel until by some elder masters [Claudius] he has a voice & precedence of peace. Thus he is fighthing not for himself but for a cause borrowed from Claudius.

When Laertes allied himself with Claudius he dulled the edge of his husbandry. Then, in the subsequent duel with Hamlet, Laertes first wounded Hamlet with his poison-tipped sword, then accidently exchanged swords with Hamlet & was fatally poisoned with his own sword. Thus he was a borrower & lender of swords, & was killed by a lent sword while fighting for a borrowed cause. [We shall see later that Laertes symbolized Christopher Marlowe & that ''go far with little'' is a paraphrase of Marlowe’s ''infinite riches in a little room.'' (The Jew of Malta,]

Hamlet would risk his life but not his soul:
''The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: & the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape; yea, & perhaps
Out of my weakness & my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me: I will have grounds
More relative than this''

Fortinbras Sr. & Fortinbras Jr. value land more than they value themselves. Fortinbras Sr ''did forfeit his life'' fighting for land (1,1,91). Fortinbras Jr goes to war, ''exposing what is mortal & unsure to all that fortune, death, & danger dare, even for an eggshell'' (4,4,51), ''a little patch of ground that hath no profit in it but the name'' (4,4,18), that is ''not tomb enough & continent to hide the slain'' (4,4,65).

Hamlet recognized, on some level, that dirt was not worth dying or killling for. ''The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; & must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? ''

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