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Analysis of Hamlet

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

Comparing Antigone and Oedipus by Sophocles

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

"Medea" - Treatment And Perspective Of Women

as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...

Comparative Analysis of the Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet adaptation with Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 interpret...

Is Revenge Ever Justified?

many of the same ideas as do his earlier counterparts, espousing the need for an overall quest for ultimate peace and contentment....

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

References to Hamlet and Hercules in The Father by August Strindberg

this paper discusses how women behave and the Captain's character in this analysis of August Strindberg's play The Father with ref...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

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...

Analysis of Hamlet's Melancholy

In five pages William Shakespeare's Hamlet is examined in an analysis of what is represented by the melancholy character of his pr...

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper offers a character analysis of Ophelia in terms of the identity crisis she suffered due to the various me...

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

A Comparison of Two Characters in Shakespearean Literature

This paper compares and contrasts the character Miranda, from The Tempest, with Ophelia of The Tragedy of Hamlet. This five page...

Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be

In this four page paper the author examines Hamlets most famous soliloquy as it relates to character traits and actions. One sour...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Words, Words, Words

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

Hamlet, Oedipus, and the Theme of Illusion v. Reality

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

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 ...

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...

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...

Hamlet and his Foils

This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....

Weak or Strong: Ophelia and Gertrude

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

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)....