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Hamlet Character Map

Lauren Coffield

Guide

= Parent/Child = Siblings

= Marriage

= Ended Marriage

=Step-Parent/Step-Child

Laertes

  • Son of Polonius, Brother of Ophelia
  • “I am justly killed with mine own treachery” (Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 2)

Laertes

Hamlet

  • Prince of Denmark, son of The Ghost and The Queen, nephew of The King
  • “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 2)

Hamlet

Ophelia

  • Daughter of Polonius, Sister of Laertes
  • “Lord, we know what we are, but not what we may be” (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 5)

Ophelia

Queen Gertrude

  • Widow of The Ghost, Wife of The King, Mother of Hamlet
  • “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 2)

Queen Gertrude

King Claudius

  • Brother of The Ghost, Husband of The Queen, Uncle of Hamlet
  • “Poor Ophelia, Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts.” Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 5)

King Claudius

Polonius

  • Father of Ophelia and Laertes
  • “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 3)

Polonius

The Ghost

  • Late Husband of The Queen, Brother of the King, Father of Hamlet
  • “I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night. And for the day confined to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away.” (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 5)

The Ghost

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