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Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

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 Foils Siblings Laertes and Ophelia

In five pages this paper discusses how the personalities of Ophelia and Laertes are in sharp contrast to that of Prince Hamlet. T...

Ophelia and Hamlet

reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...

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)....

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...

Hamlet's Ghost - A Textual Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the topic of the purpose of Hamlet's Ghost. Citing textual evidence, the writer sho...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

Shakespeare as the Author of His Works

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

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...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Protagonist Comparison in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

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

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Influence of Seneca

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 ...

The Concept of Ambition in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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...

Reflective Essay on Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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...

Themes and Dramatic Structures in Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages the relationships between dramatic structures and themes as they exist within these three plays by William Shakespea...

Feminine Frailty in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

the wishes of his mother and the king to remain at court rather than return to his school, they are grateful and satisfied and lea...

Supernatural in Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

theme that Shakespeare used appeared in many different forms. Perhaps the most distinguished of the supernatural forms is the gho...

Character Analysis of Laertes in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

leaves to France. He gives her advice, as a brother would, and recommends that she be careful with Hamlet and that she must prote...

William Shakespeare Plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, and Journeys

In five pages the heroic journeys presented in each of these plays by William Shakespeare are analyzed in terms of their significa...

Supernatural in Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

This paper consists on five pages and analyzes how within these tragedies the Bard relies heavily upon the supernatural for struct...

Tragic Elements of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Character of Claudius

In five pages five scenes from the play are presented in an argument that Claudius is in fact a sympathetic character in William S...

Characterizations in Hamlet and As You Like It by William Shakespeare

In five pages the ways in which the modern world is reflected within the tragic and comic characterizations William Shakespeare cr...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Guilt of Queen Gertrude

In five pages this paper discusses how the play's text reveals the Danish queen to be guilty of adultery and murder conspiracy in ...

Sanity of Hamlet

In five pages this paper evaluates the sanity of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy and whether or not he had lost it or had never be...

Iago and Claudius as Villains in Othello and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In 7 pages this paper analyzes the evil represented by villains Iago and Claudius in these Shakespearean plays. There are 3 sourc...