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In six pages this paper examines how atmosphere, symbolism, incident, character, and theme are influenced by alienation and loneli...

In five pages this paper examines the behavior and speeches of Prince Hamlet as presented in William Shakespeare's famous play and...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

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...

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

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

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...

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

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

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...

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,...

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

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

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...

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...