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the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

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...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

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

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

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...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

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...

to find an alignment between the different interests of the board members. The problem does not only occur as a result of the ch...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

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 ...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

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

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

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

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

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

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)....

they may have (Grossman, 2002). Experts believe that workplace violence can be prevented if certain types of training programs ar...