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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...
easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
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...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...
thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...
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...
his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...
will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...
and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...
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...
possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...
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 ...
to send him to hell. He wants to kill him as he sins so that his soul may be as damnd and black/ As hell, where it goes" (III.3.94...
Hamlet on the castles parapet. The ghost implores Hamlet to enact revenge for his "most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
thrown into chaos. The roles of Gertrude and Ophelia within the plays construct were painstakingly designed by the Bard to reflec...
were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...
of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...
may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...
note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...
he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...
violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...
representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...