Hamlet: "To Be Insane Or Not To Be Insane That Tis The Question"
.... he slips in that Ophelia should go to a nunnery. This
is his just cause for his maddness. He tries to get Ophelia to forget him and
go to the nunnery so that she can be safe, and away from all his troubles that
would soon come. Here we see his justcause as well as his foreshadowing for
things to come.
Like many Princes, Hamlet has been highly educated in Whittenburg, England.
Here he has learned to think logically and not to act or think on impulse.
This is why the reader sees Hamlet talkling to himself. In act III we see
hamlet debating over ideas and problems out loud. The most obvious one is in
his "To Be" soliloquy.
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Hamlet: The Theme Of Masks
.... brother, the former king
Hamlet, in order to become king himself. This murder, which was done in secret,
with no one but Cladius knowing that the act was committed by him. Not only is
he the King of Denmark, but he is also married to Queen Gertrude, his brothers
former wife. These hideous and awful crimes have not been punished, and no one
knows that Claudius has done this. When Claudius confronts anyone, he must
become someone totally different. Claudius puts on a mask of his own. He is
no longer the self-serving, cold, calculating man that he really is, out he
becomes a kind, caring man who does his very best to ensure tha .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet Defeated By His Own Flaws
.... of Polonious was a tragic flaw of Hamlets, so was
the killing of Claudius. This flaw of Hamlets which was to be the solo revenge
of Claudius brought upon the death of Gertrude, Polonius, and Laertes. The
madness in Hamlet was to be unleashed only on Claudius. Yet Hamlet's path of
destruction killed his mother, she was killed by the poison meant for Hamlet by
Claudius. Laertes death was brought on by the killing of Polonius. The duel
between Hamlet and Laertes, which was the arranged revenge on Hamlet, was the
final stand of each.
Although the killings Hamlet carried out were flaws he possessed,
another major flaw was his .....
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Hamlet: A Man Of Many Qualities
.... phrases such as "Frailty, thy name is woman!"(Act 1,Sc 2, L148) and "Like
Niobe, all tears."(Act 1, Sc 2, L151). At the end of his soliloquy, Hamlet
switches qualities from one of anger to one of fear. This is evident when
Hamlet states, "With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!", and "It is not, nor
it cannot come to good", and finally "But break my heart, for I must hold my
tongue"(Act 1, Sc 2 L157© 161). Hamlet expresses his fear for his mother's
hasty marriage. Hamlet realizes that his mother marrying his uncle can have no
good result. Respect is another quality that Hamlet displays in conversation
with his mother. .....
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Hamlet: Essay On Act I
.... different
from that of the appearance of the ghost and the problems of Hamlet and his
relatives. This creates an atmosphere of love, and betrayall, whereby Ophelia
is forced to obey her father Polonious, and is told to be careful with Hamlet,
as he is a prince, and will not look to marry just anyone, such as herself.
Shakespeare continues to develop atmosphere throughout the act, and uses the
atmosphere to introduce some of the characters in the play.
Shakespeare introduces some of the major characters in the play, and
leaves lasting impressions of each on the reader. Bernardo, and Francisco are
introduced in the first sce .....
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Hamlet: Emotional States
.... some deep seeded emotional problems for
Hamlet. I can not talk about Hamlet's emotional state without also going into
the fact that Hamlet already suspects the King of killing his father, before the
ghost tells him so (Leavenwoth, 34). First I will go elaborate on how Hamlet,
at certain times, was clearly not feigning insanity, but that insanity only
lasted for brief periods of time because of the emotional blows that Hamlet
undergoes.
I and many literary folk believe that Hamlet suffered from a Oedipus
complex. Freud described this as a desire for a young boy to kill his father
and become sexually involved with his mother. N .....
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Hamlet: Horatio - A Man Of Thought, Fortinbras - A Man Of Action
.... is a man of action. He takes action before he thinks about the
consequences of his actions. The king is making use of these characteristics
when he says "we have to writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras—Who impotent
and bed-rid, scarcely hears of his nephew's purpose to suppress his further
gait" (1.2.29-32). In this quote the king has stopped Fortinbras' invasion of
Denmark. The king was able to do this because Fortinbras didn't consider what
would happen if His uncle found out. Another quotation showing Fortinbras'
action without thought is made by Hamlet. Hamlet has just learned of the
invasion of Poland led by Fortinbra .....
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Hamlet: Video Comparison
.... scene as well as what I think
Shakespeare's intentions were.
Another version was the with Lawrence Olivier. Compared with the other
two, this version didn't quite seem as realistic. When Hamlet enters them room,
it seems like he already knows what's going on, and that Polonius and the King
are in the room. You can tell that he thinks something's up when glances over
at the hanging tapestries before he talks with Ophelia. They don't seem as if
they are, or ever were in love. They don't have any chemistry during their
conversation and I think that wasn't what Shakespeare intended. When Ophelia
nervously glances over at her .....
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Hamlet: Theories Of Hamlet's Delay In Killing Claudius
.... him by
pouring poison in his ear, Hamlet does not act upon the word of the specter. He
takes time to think about what the apparition told him. He contemplates whether
it is a good ghost or a bad ghost. He plans things out; analyses situations.
When the actors came to town, Hamlet implores one of them, "Dost thou hear me
old friend? Can you play The Murder of Gonzago?" (88) The player agrees that
he can indeed perform the play. "We'll ha't tomorrow night. You could for a
need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I could set down and
insert in't, could you not." (88)
Here Hamlet has devised a scheme to disc .....
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Macbeth: Independence And Failure
.... is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using
these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and
Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel
each other because each is caused by Macbeth's will to be independent.
According to Webster's dictionary, the archaic definition of
independence is “competence” (1148). To be independent is not to be “subject
to control by others” (Gove 1148). This means that independence is to be in
control of ones decisions and to feel they are good decisions. Macbeth, on the
other hand, feels independence is to not be .....
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Hamlet As A Tragic Hero
.... and Hamlet
arranges a personal viewing of The Murder of Gonzago with a small portion of his
own lines inserted. Hamlet then observes one portion of the play in which one
of the players put on a great display of emotion. Hamlet, besieged by guilt and
self-contempt, remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion this
player showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotional about.
Hamlet observed that he himself had all the reason in the world to react with
great emotion and sorrow, yet he failed to show any that could compare with the
act of the player. Hamlet calls himself a "rogue and peasant slav .....
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Has Hamlet Gone Mad?
.... the apparent problems.
In Act 1, Scene 5, Hamlet while talking to his father's ghost was urged
to avenge the foul murder, but to leave his mother out of it as her guilt would
be punishment enough. GHOST: "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. …
Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and
sting her." The ghost of the previous king gave Hamlet the solution that he
needed. The ghost also be-seeched Hamlet to "…Let not the royal bed of Denmark
be a couch for luxury and damned incest…". This showed that Ham-let was
required to not only restore his honor, but to re-store the honor of all o .....
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