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Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

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...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

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

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...

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

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...

thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

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...

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...

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

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 ...

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...