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Computers Need More Than Just Virus Scanning Protection

a five month period. Over 823 new viruses and worms appeared in just the Third Quarter of 2003. The speed at which...

Analysis of the Increases in Fundamentalist and Conservative Religious Groups

first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African ...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Essential Elements of Great Literature and Writers

In five pages great works of literature written by esteemed authors are examined in order to reveal the crucial elements that cont...

Rewriting History with William Shakespeare's 'Richard the Third'

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

Ian McKellan's Film 'Richard III' and Evil

In six pages this paper examines how evil is portrayed in this cinematic interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Richard III' wit...

David Scott Kastan's Discussion of Shakespearean Analysis

at Shakespeare in a vacuum. That is, Kastan looks at Shakespeare in its own right but negates the political and social influences ...

Prince Hal and King Henry

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

Musset's Lorenzaccio & Hamlet

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

Accountability of Claudius in Causing Sorrow in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

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

Four Questions on William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

William Shakespeare's King Henry V and Hamlet Directed by Sir Laurence Olivier

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...

Comparing Laurence Olivier's 1948 Film 'Hamlet' with William Shakespeare's Play

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

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Queen Gertrude Following Act III, Scene ii

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....

Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Minor Characters and Humor

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

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Theme of Deception in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

Queen Gertrude and Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet

thrown into chaos. The roles of Gertrude and Ophelia within the plays construct were painstakingly designed by the Bard to reflec...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Pawn Ophelia

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...

Four ‘Ghostly’ Commands in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

Delayed Revenge in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

Symbolism of the Terms 'Denmark' and 'King' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

'Untrue' Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

Characters Who Die in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare's Protagonists Hamlet and Macbeth

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...