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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...

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...

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...

lines before the mention of Ophelia that he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,...

other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...

his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

ponders "To be or not to be." This paper tries to answer his question and argues that there are two things happening in this solil...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

of madness in order to distract Claudius, Polonius, and other members of the court from his plan to attain revenge for his slain f...

surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the conflict between reality and illusion and discrepancies pertaining to appearance that man...

In six pages the types of justice as defined in this Shakespearean tragedy are considered with the human 'earthly justice' compare...

be a relative of Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem features as its protagonist Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, who is revered by hi...

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

as a means of insuring the others immortality than it is an _expression of love. Sonnet 130, however, is to a woman, and the rela...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...

Western literature, but of the world (Brustein 27). According to Bloom, Shakespeare valued personality above all other elements in...

corresponding syllables accurately. "Aunt JENnifeRAs TiGers PRANCe across THE screen,/Bright TOpaz DENizens OF a WORLD of GREEN" (...

"cluttered attic, full of old resentments and angers, gripes and stories" on page 59). In this regard, the steps involved mean def...

17-18). It is probable that their sensitive son was aware of his parents marital discord, but losing himself in books was never a...

depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...

to her and gain little quiet. Sonnet 130 This particular sonnet is actually something of a satirical sonnet addressing how many...

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

do not assume that he would be a man who was easily swayed against this woman he loves. But, as the play progresses we see his wea...

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...