During these scenes I think things got very bad for Hamlet. He may have come very close to completely ending his plan for revenge when Polonius was killed. Certainly didn't help his case for not being insane. I liked Hamlets soliloquies about whether or not someone should act on a situation regardless of the circumstances. I think Hamlet had moved his mind into a place where he can focus and actually follow through with his plan to kill the king, but unfortunately because of his actions he is sent to England to be executed.
I wanna discuss Claudius for this post, really because I dont like the way he handles things at all here. Hes basically suppose to deal with situations like Polonius' death in a very organized and diplomatic manner but the way he went about it was very shady. Mostly just covering things up and keeping it all a mystery, then to top it all off he decides to just ship Hamlet off to have another country take care of the problem. I think its clear Claudius is in way over his head and really shoudnt be in a position to make these calls.
I think one of the themes brought out in these acts where people character and how they react to certain situations. Hamlet character changes a lot though out the story mostly due to his over thinking and indicisive nature, but other people around him start to lose their composure in act 4. Ophelia starts to lose her mind a little, Claudius fails to salvage the situation with Polonius' death but Leartes stays with what he is. Leartes is more or less the opposite of Hamlet, quick to action and knows what he wants. Hamlet would be wise to learn something from that, but then the play would be over too soon.
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