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plants. The use of poison as a means of dispatching ones enemy, or ones rival, exemplifies the underhanded and dishonest dealings ...

subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

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...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

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

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

meant that the two had a kindred relationship. Hamlet responded under his breath that the relationship was "A little more than ki...

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragedy within the context of the personality theory of Sigmund Freud. Four sourc...

In five pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these two Shakespearean tragedies in terms of their similarities and d...

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

In six pages this paper examines the concept of honor in a consideration of how Shakespeare depicts it in these two dramatic works...

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

William Shakespeare succeeded in producing a tragedy that incorporated all of these elements in 1604 when he introduced the world ...