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Prince Hamlet's Character Study

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

How Hamlet's Father Affects the Prince of Denmark's Life

no less) a mere three months later. Hamlet has been shattered by his loss and his mothers betrayal, and plunges into a period of ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Laertes and Prince Hamlet

In five pages these 2 characters featured in William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy are contrasted and compared. There are no ...

Analysis of Hamlet's Melancholy

In five pages William Shakespeare's Hamlet is examined in an analysis of what is represented by the melancholy character of his pr...

Hamlet's 'Masks'

could say that the gaiety of the new court masks the secrets of the old one. Claudius as a supportive brother to the old king has...

Hamlet's Treatment of Women in William Shakespeare's Play

in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...

Analyzing Hamlet's Act II, Scene ii

his fathers murder was Claudius elaborate conspiracy to become King, but he lacked sufficient proof to support his theory. When t...

Hamlet's Character

In five pages this paper considers the death wish of Prince Hamlet in this analysis of his character. There is no bibliography in...

Hamlet's Character and Revenge

runs the eavesdropper through; the Hamlet who sends his school-fellows [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to their death and never tro...

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Ghost of Hamlet's Father and its Authenticity

to manifest in either life. They take issue with something that has gone on before their death, and in fact, the ghost in Hamlet, ...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote from Beyond Good and Evil and its Validity

The validity of the quote 'In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule' featured ...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and Insanity

In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...

Clairvoyance, Insanity, and the Life of Mary Todd Lincoln

This paper examines the life of Mary T. Lincoln, wife of US president Abraham Lincoln. The author discusses elements of her insan...

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, ...

4 Articles on Insanity Defense and Mental Disability

not prison. II. THEME OF THE FOUR ARTICLES The theme of these four articles -- Craziness and Criminal Responsibility, Introducti...

Insanity Pleas

In eleven pages this paper examines how 'famous' people often use pleas of insanity as defenses. Fourteen sources are cited in th...

Plea of Insanity

laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, o...

A Psychiatric Analysis of Madness and Selected Literary Works

This paper analyzes two psychiatric approaches to addressing madness and insanity. The author utilizes the works of R.D. Laing, D...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

Psychological Views of the Insanity Legal Defense

In eight pages the legal system is discussed in an overview of how the insanity defense is used from a psychological point of view...

Insanity and Sexual Hysteria in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

trouble him--but never, never; neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all ...

Analysis of 'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

Benefits of Insanity as a Legal Defense

insanity. Of course, if they do avoid a criminal sentence, they are often locked up in an institution for a very long period. Whil...

Insanity in Comparative Literature

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...