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In four pages this essay analyzes the character of Queen Gertrude and argues that her state of denial is responsible for her actio...

Ophelia in the process. The burden of these struggles is more than the emotionally fragile prince can bear, and when he utters th...

In ten pages this paper discusses Ophelia's deteriorating mental condition as she slowly inches towards madness. There is the inc...

In four pages this paper examines Aristotle's definition of tragedy and its criteria in a consideration of Hamlet and how the play...

In ten pages the 'nunnery scene' is among the topics discussed in a consideration of past and present societal misogyny and in a c...

In four pages this paper demonstrates how Shakespeare's humanist concepts transformed Prince Hamlet into the ultimate Renaissance ...

Elizabethan superstition with regard to ghosts helps to fuel the supernatural inferences in Shakespeares Hamlet, because the two e...

In five pages this paper examines the emphasis upon 'ear' and 'hearing' in the play and how this impacts Hamlet's encounter with t...

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...

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

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

they are in committing to marriage. The imagery evoked by "violet in the youth of primy nature" implies that Hamlet is interested...

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...

in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....

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

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...

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...

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...

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

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

should take place in the nineteenth century, a time characterized by scandalous behavior, which he believed would make 400-year-ol...

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

In four pages this review includes discussion of character and plot development, staging, and considers how they support the actio...

In five pages this paper examines Hamlet's role in the deaths of certain characters in terms of whether or not he actually caused ...

the King. Macbeth, while in a different conflict, is a man who, for the simple sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his k...

This paper examines how Shakespeare's depiction of women in Hamlet was a reflection of their Elizabethan social roles in eight pag...