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This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

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

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

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

an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...

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

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)....

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

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...

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...

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...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...