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

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

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...

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In summari...

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...

lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...

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

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

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...

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

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...

find a different word. The line "Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with" (III.iv.2)is difficult because "broad" does...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

he no longer has the means to interact with the living effectively, he returns to drive his son Hamlet to take revenge on his beha...

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...

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

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...

ponders "To be or not to be." This paper tries to answer his question and argues that there are two things happening in this solil...

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

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...

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

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...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

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