Essays 121 - 150
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
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...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...
famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...
relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...
affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...
by the church, works for them. She relents and tells him to remain just as he is, but that he still cannot join her church. The st...
Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...
will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...
to send him to hell. He wants to kill him as he sins so that his soul may be as damnd and black/ As hell, where it goes" (III.3.94...
in a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brot...
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...
true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...
fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...
inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...
has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...
easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...