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Essays 1771 - 1800

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

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

Don Quixote, Hamlet and Their View of the World

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

Hamlet

the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...

Conflict Between Characters in Hamlet

affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...

Thinking Makes It So

by the church, works for them. She relents and tells him to remain just as he is, but that he still cannot join her church. The st...

Oedipus in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Using Aristotle to Analyze "Hamlet"

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

Freudian Psychoanalysis of the Madness of Prince Hamlet

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...

A Poem on "Hamlet"

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

Hamlet As Comedy

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Theatrical Rendition of a Scene Demonstrating the Hesitation of Hamlet

a new rendition of the scene. The Scene According to the students request, or specifications, we present the speech of Hamlet,...

References to Hamlet and Hercules in The Father by August Strindberg

this paper discusses how women behave and the Captain's character in this analysis of August Strindberg's play The Father with ref...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Heroes Beowulf and Hamlet

In five pages Joseph Campbell's definition of a hero is applied to Beowulf and Hamlet in a comparison and contrast of these two ep...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Cooperative Principle, Developed by H.P. Grice

This paper pertains to Grice's Cooperative Principle, which is explained, along with its associated maxims. The writer then uses t...

Hamlet and his Foils

This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....

Hamlet - A Poetic Analysis

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at poetics in Hamlet. Key lines are analyzed in detail. Paper uses one source....

Hamlet - A Jungian Reading

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at "Hamlet". Jungian archetypes are used to analyze the play's themes. Paper uses one so...

Hamlet - An Existential Reading

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hamlet. Using textual evidence, an existential reading of the play's themes is give...

"At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994" Discussion Questions

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...

Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, as Aristotelian Tragedies

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

Folio and Second Quarto Changes in Hamlet

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at changes in the text of Hamlet. The difference in Folio and Second Quarto versions a...

Kozintsey's "Hamlet" - An Analysis

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Kozintsey's "Hamlet". Marxist themes are explored by analyzing the differences from t...

Directorial Changes in Hamlet

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at directorial changes that can be made in Hamlet. The use of directorial edits to emph...

Questions on Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964)

This paper offers analysis of film clips from Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964). Three pages in length, two sour...