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she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

he no longer has the means to interact with the living effectively, he returns to drive his son Hamlet to take revenge on his beha...

find a different word. The line "Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with" (III.iv.2)is difficult because "broad" does...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

This paper pertains to Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." The writer describes the overall film and the cinematic devices ...

of madness in order to distract Claudius, Polonius, and other members of the court from his plan to attain revenge for his slain f...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...

ponders "To be or not to be." This paper tries to answer his question and argues that there are two things happening in this solil...

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

lines before the mention of Ophelia that he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,...

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

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

to counter the rottenness that has overtaken the land: he makes up his mind to avenge his fathers murder. In his version of the pl...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

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...

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

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

Hal was more interested in the gossip at the local taverns than he was in matters of state. Henry IVs cousin, Richard, who became...

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

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...

from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

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

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...

the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...