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and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

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...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

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...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

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...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....

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

subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...

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

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

authors literary interpretation, Macbeth reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address human conflict wi...

jealousy. His inherent nature does not want him to believe such lies. We see this throughout the story as he is constantly confuse...

seems so much more believable. Their initial dialogue of "If it be love, indeed, tell me how much." and, "Then must thou needs fin...

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

Money, wealth, and power are not the only things in life. He realizes that too late, but he does realize. Lear completes a spiri...

In seven pages this paper evaluates whether or not this tragic protagonist created by William Shakespeare was senile, mad, or a bi...

In seven pages this paper discusses the multifaceted protagonist William Shakespeare created in King Lear and all of the personali...

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...