Hamlet
Subdecks (4)
Cards (125)
- Prince of Denmark, title character, protagonist.
- Son of Gertrude and King Hamlet
- Claudius' Nephew
- melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle's scheming and disgust for his mother's sexuality
- Studied at Wittenberg with Horatio
- Loves Ophelia
- Indecisive and hesitant, yet prone to rash and impulsive acts
- Married to Gertrude
- A calculating and ambitious politician
- Driven by sexual appetites and lust for power
- Occasionally shows signs of guilt and emotion
- The Queen of Denmark. She is Hamlet's mother. She married Claudius shortly after her husband died. She loves Hamlet.
- Shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more than moral truth
- Lord Chamberlain of Claudius' court
- Pompous, conniving old man
- Father of Laertes and Ophelia
- Hamlet's close friend that studied with him at the University. He is very loyal to Hamlet.
- After Hamlet's death, he remains alive to tell Hamlet's story
- Hamlet's love interest
- Obeys her father Polonius and her brother Laertes
- Sweet and innocent young girl- dependent on men
- Remains maidenly even in her lapse into madness and death
- Son of Polonius
- Brother to Ophelia
- A young man who spends much of the play in France
- Passionate and quick to action
- A foil to Hamlet
- The young Prince of Norway, whose father the king was killed by Hamlet's father.
- Wishes to attack Denmark to avenge his father's honor, making him another foil for Prince Hamlet.
- The specter of Hamlet's recently deceased father.
- Hamlet speculates that he might be a devil sent to deceive him and tempt him into murder, and the question of what he is or where it comes from is never definitively resolved.
- Murdered by Claudius
- Claudius' Courtiers
- and who summon Horatio to witness it.
- prevent Fortinbras from attacking.
- ghost.
- strange behavior.
- Wittenberg,