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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)....

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

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

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

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

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 ...

famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...

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...

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

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...

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

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

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...

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

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...

thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...

have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...

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...

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

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

to ask whether Miranda is listening to him when it seems obvious that she is. This seems like a control mechanism rather than a ge...

In this research paper consisting of 5 pages, the Oedipal overtones of the relationships between Jack Burden and his mother and Ha...