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Weak or Strong: Ophelia and Gertrude

of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

Hamlet

the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...

The Masks Characters Wear in “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Hamlet”

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

The Grand Ladies of Shakespeare, Ophelia and Desdemona

not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper offers a character analysis of Ophelia in terms of the identity crisis she suffered due to the various me...

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Analysis of Hamlet's Melancholy

In five pages William Shakespeare's Hamlet is examined in an analysis of what is represented by the melancholy character of his pr...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Queen Gertrude's Character

and quite unthinkingly into a marriage to his murderer, and was able to ignore the facts and clues that encircled her, pointing to...

Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this character analysis of Claudius focuses on ethical values with a contrast and comparison between Prince Hamlet a...

A Comparison of Two Characters in Shakespearean Literature

This paper compares and contrasts the character Miranda, from The Tempest, with Ophelia of The Tragedy of Hamlet. This five page...

Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be

In this four page paper the author examines Hamlets most famous soliloquy as it relates to character traits and actions. One sour...

Misogyny and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In ten pages the 'nunnery scene' is among the topics discussed in a consideration of past and present societal misogyny and in a c...

Madness Feigned or Real in Ophelia and Hamlet

In twelve pages this paper discusses the presentation of madness in Shakespeare's tragedy as genuine in the character of Ophelia a...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Words, Words, Words

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Fairytales and Sigmund Freud

In six pages the Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, and The White Snake fairytales are subjected to a Freudian psychological interpretation...

Hamlet, Oedipus, and the Theme of Illusion v. Reality

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

Being Single and Being in a Relationship Compared

ones self-esteem is constantly defined by the opinions of others, and confined to the very narrow parameters of whether or not one...

Shakespeare's Hamlet Act II, Scene II

The scene in which Hamlet meets with the Players and the reaction to these Players are the focus of this paper consisting of five ...

Character Analysis of Laertes in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

leaves to France. He gives her advice, as a brother would, and recommends that she be careful with Hamlet and that she must prote...

Madness of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

in a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brot...

Identity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the power of identity in the similarities and differences that exist among characters Mariana in...

Earthquakes

best known of the divergent boundaries is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge" which is a submerged mountain range that gores from the Artic Oc...