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When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

(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...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

poisoned herself at the end is of little consequence to Claudius. But of notable significance is the continued interaction b...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

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

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

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

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

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

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

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...

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...

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

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

was an able soldier and loyal supporter of his King. In recognition of his faithful service to the Crown, King Duncan bestowed up...

and how do his views regarding death change throughout the course of the play? Why Does Hamlet Die at the End?...

with the real conflict that is taking place between the two, but more to do with the fact that Hamlet likely feels killing Claudiu...

Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...

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...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...

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

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

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...

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