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Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

The theme of insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

"I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word." This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and docto...

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the Element of Tragedy

An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Mental Changes Ophelia Undergoes

In ten pages this paper discusses Ophelia's deteriorating mental condition as she slowly inches towards madness. There is the inc...

Madness Feigned or Real in Ophelia and Hamlet

In twelve pages this paper discusses the presentation of madness in Shakespeare's tragedy as genuine in the character of Ophelia a...

Madness of Hamlet

In six pages this essay examines the self destructiveness of Shakespeare's tragic character and how this life negation contributes...

Michael Foucault vs. Frantz Fanon on Minorities

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

Sanity and insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper looks at sanity and madness in Gilman's narrative The Yellow Wallpaper, and explores the concept that for the heroine, ...

Death of Hamlet and its Cause

In five pages this paper discusses the contributing factors that led to the death of Hamlet in a consideration of external forces,...

Cross Gender Insanity in Ophelia and Hamlet

In five pages this report examines how madness crosses gender boundaries as revealed in the experiences of Ophelia and Hamlet in S...

Madness and the French Revolution

sought to rid their society of all whom even appeared to be an enemy. The original mission of the committee was to "prop up" (And...

Greed and Power in Characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

by killing King Duncan. But, he is hesitant about doing such a thing. It is, however, Lady Macbeth who urges him on. It is Lady Ma...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Thematic Analysis of Madness in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Madness is the focus of this thematic analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet consisting of 5 pages with Hamlet, Claudius, and Op...

An Exploration of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...

4 Themes in Weiten's Psychology Themes and Variations

In three pages this paper analyzes 4 themes that are featured in this text. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Madness and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

This paper assesses whether or not Hamlet is actually mad in an analysis of Hamlet by William Shakespeare that consists of five pa...

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore' by John Ford and the Madness of Giovanni

In seven pages this seventeenth century work is examined in an analysis of Giovanni's mental disintegration. There are no other s...

Madness of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

In three pages this paper analyzes what is meant by Prince Hamlet's 'antic disposition' remark in the first act of William Shakesp...

Madness of Hamlet

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not William Shakespeare's tragic protagonist was truly mad. There are no other sourc...

Sanity, Madness, and the Family by R.D. Laing and A. Esterson

In five pages this paper discusses the symptoms of schizophrenia as featured in the family profiles described in this text. Three...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

Hamlet - The Question of Madness

of madness in order to distract Claudius, Polonius, and other members of the court from his plan to attain revenge for his slain f...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

Freudian Psychoanalysis of the Madness of Prince Hamlet

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...

Hamlet's Madness: Real or Feigned?

in, and Hamlet at first seems greatly disturbed, even wild. When they ask what the Ghost has said he first replies "Hillo, ho, ho,...

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

Madness of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

in a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brot...