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In five pages this paper examines the oppositional and dysfunctional relationship between stepfather and stepson in a consideratio...

In four pages this paper discusses the reasons for Hamlet's vengeance of his father's murder being delayed. There are no other so...

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...

reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...

not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....

lines before the mention of Ophelia that he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,...

other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...

to counter the rottenness that has overtaken the land: he makes up his mind to avenge his fathers murder. In his version of the pl...

He says, "What is a man,/If his chief good and market of this time/Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more" (IV.IV.33-35). But w...

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

At last, however, he confronts her, all but begging her to see some truth: "My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And ma...

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...

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

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

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...

they are in committing to marriage. The imagery evoked by "violet in the youth of primy nature" implies that Hamlet is interested...

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

three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...

which are clear indications of the depth of his uneasiness with the entire situation. "To be or not to be" can be construed to me...

the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

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

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

This paper pertains to Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." The writer describes the overall film and the cinematic devices ...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...