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have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...
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...
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...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...
all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...
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...
Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...
1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...
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...
hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...
the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
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 ...
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...
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 is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...
of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...
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...
lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...
place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...
reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...