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(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...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

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

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...

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...

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...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

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

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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

father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...

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...

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

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

than debated, and therefore Hamlets problems cannot be solved by introspection and self-analysis. The themes also symboli...

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...

In five pages this paper assesses Polonius's advice to his son Laertes 'This above all: to thine own self be true' with in the con...

In seven pages the symbolism surrounding the use of the terms Denmark and King are examined within the context of Shakespeare's tr...