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Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...

affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...

by the church, works for them. She relents and tells him to remain just as he is, but that he still cannot join her church. The st...

lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...

of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

films of the play and specifically, the "To be or not to be," "Get thee to a nunnery" and "Now might I do it pat" speeches from th...

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

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...

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...

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

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

famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

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

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

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

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...

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...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...