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Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Amanda Wingfield's Role

shift constantly, and she appears sometimes pitiable, sometimes conniving, sometimes difficult to escape. Descriptions of Tom and...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Staging

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be' and William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 29'

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

A Consideration of William Shakespeare's “King Lear”

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

Argument that Hamlet Was Not a Victim of Insanity

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

Is Hamlet Admirable or Despicable?

Hamlet on the castles parapet. The ghost implores Hamlet to enact revenge for his "most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25...

Theatrical Rendition of a Scene Demonstrating the Hesitation of Hamlet

a new rendition of the scene. The Scene According to the students request, or specifications, we present the speech of Hamlet,...

Madness of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

in a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brot...

Hamlet and Claudius

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...

Oedipus in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

Hamlet/The Ruse of Insanity

ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...

Two Great Tragic Heroes

lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

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...

Hamlet Interpreted Three Ways

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...

The King’s to Blame

ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...

Hamlet

the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...

Conflict Between Characters in Hamlet

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...

Thinking Makes It So

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" - Symbolism and the Theme of Justice

poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...

Hamlet

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

Don Quixote, Hamlet and Their View of the World

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

Is “Death of a Salesman” an Aristotelian Tragedy?

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

Hamlet and the Function of Art

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...

The Role of Illusion in Hamlet and Don Quixote

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

Freudian Psychoanalysis of the Madness of Prince Hamlet

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...

Hamlet According to Aristotle

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

A Poem on "Hamlet"

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