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of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

films of the play and specifically, the "To be or not to be," "Get thee to a nunnery" and "Now might I do it pat" speeches from th...

ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

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...

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...

ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...

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...

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...

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)....

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

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

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

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

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

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

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

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

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...

The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

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

in a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brot...

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...