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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...
Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...
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...
Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...
achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...
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 ...
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 ...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
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...
the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...
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...
not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...
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 ...
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...
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)....
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...
place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
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: ...
Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...
ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...