Essays 391 - 420
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...
This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...
This paper pertains to Grice's Cooperative Principle, which is explained, along with its associated maxims. The writer then uses t...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...
not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...
Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...
by King Claudius reveal him to be conniving, shrewd and lustful. Unlike Hamlet, who is preoccupied with questions concerning ethic...
poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...
ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...
his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...
This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....
films of the play and specifically, the "To be or not to be," "Get thee to a nunnery" and "Now might I do it pat" speeches from th...
Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at changes in the text of Hamlet. The difference in Folio and Second Quarto versions a...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Kozintsey's "Hamlet". Marxist themes are explored by analyzing the differences from t...
In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at directorial changes that can be made in Hamlet. The use of directorial edits to emph...
This paper offers analysis of film clips from Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964). Three pages in length, two sour...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at directorial changes that might be made to Hamlet. Existential themes are brought to ...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at "Hamlet". Jungian archetypes are used to analyze the play's themes. Paper uses one so...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hamlet. Using textual evidence, an existential reading of the play's themes is give...
This essay presents the arguments that Hamlet had to be under the influence of intense emotion in order to overcome his indecision...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at poetics in Hamlet. Key lines are analyzed in detail. Paper uses one source....
This essay pertains to the theme of chance and fate and their influence over the chance events that result in much the motivation ...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
add the final brushstrokes to Hamlets character (or lack thereof). It is shown that Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, is a man of deci...
Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...