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

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 ...

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

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

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

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

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 ...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

not be ill. The first concerned those who are not ill is whether they have drunk the infected milk or not and whether or not they ...

ability to add to these resources, the Yonbyon facility in North Korea was estimated at having sufficient resources and capacity t...

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...