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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...

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...

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)....

Flawed Characters in Death of a Salesman, Antigone, and Oedipus

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

References to Hamlet and Hercules in The Father by August Strindberg

this paper discusses how women behave and the Captain's character in this analysis of August Strindberg's play The Father with ref...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Hamlet and his Foils

This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

A Debate about the Nature of Man, Argued by Hamlet, Beowulf and Sir Gawain

The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...

Three Characters Speech Analysis from Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Minor Characters and Humor

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

Paradox of Dramatic Character in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper examines a passage from the Greek tragedy in order to determine to what extent Oedipus portrays himself a...

Henry James's Daisy Miller and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares Daisy Miller and Hamlet in terms of character identity. There are no other sources...

Character Analysis of Creon in Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles

contrasts dramatically with Antigones ideas, and forms the basis for the conflict that drives the plot. At the core of Creons val...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The Characters Okonkwo and Oedipus Compared

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

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...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...