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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...

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...

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

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

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: ...

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)....

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

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

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

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...

Through his insightful approach, Shakespeare attempts to push forward the strength and spirituality of women. Indeed, he recogniz...

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...