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of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...
were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
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...
Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...
have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...
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...
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...
Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...
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...
remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...
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...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...
place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...
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)....
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...
things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...
Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...
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...
an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...
Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...
the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...