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woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

to send him to hell. He wants to kill him as he sins so that his soul may be as damnd and black/ As hell, where it goes" (III.3.94...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...

Hamlet on the castles parapet. The ghost implores Hamlet to enact revenge for his "most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25...

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

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

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

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

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

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

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...

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

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

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

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

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

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

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...

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...

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