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his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

also aware that Desdemona is not one of his soldiers, obliged to obey orders; she is her own person and if she chooses not to love...

father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

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

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

Ophelia. Remember, Hamlet is but a mere college student, who despite his cunning, is often depressed and riddled with insecurity....

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

At last, however, he confronts her, all but begging her to see some truth: "My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And ma...

carry out his plan of revenge against Claudius without arousing suspicion. Hamlets madness is responsible for bringing the play t...

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...

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...

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...

He says, "What is a man,/If his chief good and market of this time/Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more" (IV.IV.33-35). But w...

which are clear indications of the depth of his uneasiness with the entire situation. "To be or not to be" can be construed to me...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...