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carry out his plan of revenge against Claudius without arousing suspicion. Hamlets madness is responsible for bringing the play t...

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

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...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

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...

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

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...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

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...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

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...

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

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...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

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...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

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...

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...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

(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...