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he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

Ophelia. Remember, Hamlet is but a mere college student, who despite his cunning, is often depressed and riddled with insecurity....

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

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...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

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 ...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

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...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

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...

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...