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thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (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...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

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...

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

Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the topic of the purpose of Hamlet's Ghost. Citing textual evidence, the writer sho...

He does not say, and this is another of the hundreds of loose ends in Hamlet that Shakespeare does not explain. At any rate, Ophe...

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

This paper consists of five pages and considers how the five soliloquies contained in Shakespeare's tragedy reveal the Prince's se...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

In five pages this paper examines how King Lear's identity search fuels the plot for this Shakespearean tragedy. There are no oth...

contradictions of his character. Certainly, Brutus is strong. Even his name conveys strength. He is idealistic, and at least in...

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...