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as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...
pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...
indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...
appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...
the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...
Ophelia. Remember, Hamlet is but a mere college student, who despite his cunning, is often depressed and riddled with insecurity....
answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...
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...
other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...
ponders "To be or not to be." This paper tries to answer his question and argues that there are two things happening in this solil...
his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...
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...
of madness in order to distract Claudius, Polonius, and other members of the court from his plan to attain revenge for his slain f...
three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...
At last, however, he confronts her, all but begging her to see some truth: "My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And ma...
In 9 pages this paper examines Hamlet's mistrust of people in his life in a psychological consideration of his feelings of betraya...
In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...
that the fact that death is common does nothing to diminish Hamlets grief. Hamlet picks up her use of the words "seems," however, ...
lines before the mention of Ophelia that he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,...
to counter the rottenness that has overtaken the land: he makes up his mind to avenge his fathers murder. In his version of the pl...
In five pages this paper analyzes Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the Prince's godlike view of himself. One source i...
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...
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...
That is Shakespeares mystery, which he took with him to the grave. However, once the ghost...
In five pages this paper examines the oppositional and dysfunctional relationship between stepfather and stepson in a consideratio...
In four pages this paper discusses the reasons for Hamlet's vengeance of his father's murder being delayed. There are no other so...
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...