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marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

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

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...

thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

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

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

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

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

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...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

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

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...

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

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

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

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)....

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...