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- Develops from thinking 'pidgeon livered and lack gall' to 'my thoughts be bloody, or nothing worth' with the more information her finds out and his growing knowledge of the world around him.
- Hamlet also develops from 'put an antic disposition on' to the audience actually wondering if Hamlet has gone mad.
- You should consider why Hamlet goes from pondering life and death, to being completely uncaring about the fact that he has killed Polonius. Is this because Polonius meant nothing to him? Or has he realised that to kill the king, he must wave away all pity and emotion?
- Why does Hamlet have Horatio to tell everything to? Did Shakespeare need a way to show the audience the truth of the play, or did he want Hamlet to have at least one true friend, for comfirtcomfort?
- Why is it that Hamlet does not trust Rosencrantz and Guildernstern right from their entrance? Is it because he is a good judge of character? Or is it because he suspected that Claudius would have people spying on him?
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- Hamlet likes to soliloquise about mortality and mankind. He contemplates suicide and delays action for the majority of the play because he is not your typical, thoughtless hero. He wants true evidence that Claudius killed his father before he takes revenge.
- Hamlet causes Claudius to be fearful for how The state of Denmark will be perceived. He might also be fearful that Hamlet has guessed that he killed the king.
- Does Hamlet love Ophelia? Did he ever love her, is he being cruel to her when he says 'get thee to a nunnery', basically telling her to leave him alone, or is he actually saving her from the evil and madness that he knows is descending?
- Some people believe that Hamlet is so angry at his mother for marrying Claudius because he is actually jealous, some people have detected incestuous undertones in the scene between Hamlet and Gertrude, especially when he asks her not to sleep with Claudius anymore.
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