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In six pages William Shakespeare's protagonist is analyzed in terms of his emotional extremes, which collectively represent his tr...
In five pages this paper examines Hamlet's role in the deaths of certain characters in terms of whether or not he actually caused ...
brother Laertes. She is deeply in love with Hamlet, and when he treats her with disdain, she becomes confused and depressed. Ham...
In seventeen pagest this research paper commences with an original Hamlet adaptation and then focuses upon contemporary social inf...
In five pages William Shakespeare's elderly protagonist is examined in a discussion of whether or not he can be blamed for the tra...
In five pages a character analysis of the protagonist Case featured in Neuromancer by William Gibson is presented. Four sources a...
a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...
the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...
of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...
father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...
At last, however, he confronts her, all but begging her to see some truth: "My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And ma...
carry out his plan of revenge against Claudius without arousing suspicion. Hamlets madness is responsible for bringing the play t...
of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...
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...
and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...
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....
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...
subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...
agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...
have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...
and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...