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The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Four ‘Ghostly’ Commands in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

Is “Death of a Salesman” an Aristotelian Tragedy?

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

Description and Imagery in Hamlet

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 ...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

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...

Gertrude and Ophelia

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...

Hamlet and Macbeth and the Art of Murder

easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Hamlet and the Function of Art

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...

The Role of Illusion in Hamlet and Don Quixote

an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...

Hamlet

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

The Masks Characters Wear in “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Hamlet”

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

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...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

Comparative Analysis of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

Ophelia and Hamlet

reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...

The Grand Ladies of Shakespeare, Ophelia and Desdemona

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)....

Don Quixote, Hamlet and Their View of the World

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

Cooperative Principle, Developed by H.P. Grice

This paper pertains to Grice's Cooperative Principle, which is explained, along with its associated maxims. The writer then uses t...

King Claudius and Machiavelli

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

Sin's Differing Degrees in Various Works of Literature

In seven pages this paper examines sin and punishment in a contrast of how they are portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, Don ...

Medea, Hamlet, and the Theme of Revenge

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the revenge theme is developed by madness, the supernatural, and protagonist attitudes in Mede...

Drama Then and Now

In five pages drama is considered in the works Wit by Margaret Edson, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Medea by Euripides. Ther...

Sanity of Hamlet

In five pages this paper evaluates the sanity of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy and whether or not he had lost it or had never be...

Laertes and Hamlet

In two pages the relationship between Laertes and Hamlet is considered in a discussion of their similiarities and differences as r...

Henry James's Daisy Miller and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares Daisy Miller and Hamlet in terms of character identity. There are no other sources...