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it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

we see the same, though we know differently. Lady Macbeth, Lennox, Ross, the ladies and lords, and the attendants are not really i...

audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

seek vengeance for the father. Hamlet goes through many different changes because of the realities he has been told, and becaus...

him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

Through his insightful approach, Shakespeare attempts to push forward the strength and spirituality of women. Indeed, he recogniz...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...