Hamlet_2_Minor_Characters

Hamlet 2 Minor Characters Two Minor characters that greatly affect Hamlet in this play are Laertes and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’. Hamlet acts different when he is around them and develops into the ruthless person he has to be if he wishes to kill Claudius and take the crown that is rightfully his. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern begin the process of making him more ruthless by causing him to begin lying to people and start to deceive people into thinking he is crazy. When he fights Laertes he is at last ready to take charge of the situation. First Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they help start Hamlet on the path to revenge for his fathers death. They are some of the first people he really gets mad at and actually goes off on. He says to them, “Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out of the heart of mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass… (Act3 Scene2 Lines 393-397)” In this scene he lets them know he was on to them the whole time and that he was using hamlet, laertes, play, begin, claudius, way, people, kill, fight, end, death, take, start, scene, ruthless, rosencrantz, point, out, now, look, know, just, happened, guildenstern, finally, fights, even, cost, around, after, rosencrantz, wouldn’t, wishes, willing, whole, weak