A World Of Glass The quote "Commit a crime, and the world is like glass" by Ralph Waldo Emerson best describes the play "Hamlet" because after Hamlet's crimes were committed the world around him started to become fragile and eventually shatters. After Hamlet kills Polonious, Ophelia becomes insane eventually drowning herself and this becomes the initial crack in an already fragile vase. ... Hamlet's friend Leartes becomes his enemy when he suspects that Hamlet killed his Father, and Caused the Death of his sister. Though killing hamlet "is almost against" his "conscience" he sti...

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After the act has happened Hamlet quietly walks away into a room where he confronts himself and his life. ... When Hamlet comes back after he is exiled Ophelia soon finds out and comes to see Hamlet. ... After Ophelia's death, Hamlet is in the spotlight for what is to come next. Hamlet's madness comes from a revenge of his father's death. ... It could also be a lesson in life that a life of madness and insanity wont get you anywhere besides six feet underground, or in Ophelia's case, underwater. ...

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Hamlet: Task: Discuss the Islamic Belief concerning death and funeral using Act 5: Scene1. ... Whoever takes his life by any means had unjustly takes a life Allah has made sacred. ... In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. ... The question of his own death plagues Hamlet as well, as he repeatedly contemplates whether or not suicide is a morally justifiable action in an agonizingly painful world. ... In his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy (III.i), Hamlet ph...

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. ... His mother is another whom Hamlet feels betrayed him as well as her former husband by casting aside all love she felt for him and marrying his brother only a few months after his death... Hamlet's emotions suffered another casualty with the loss of the love his life Ophelia. ... These actions lead Ophelia with no one to talk with and she takes her own life. ... Ophelia was someone he could have confided in and yet he shunned her until her death. ...

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You still have to take into consideration the fact she got married to months after the death of the King. ... On page 255 Hamlet states the love to Ophelia after her death "I loved Ophelia. ... The sad part is after all this, is that Hamlet swerving emotions drove the girl he loved to death. ... The misery that ends this bad mother son relationship ends his relationship with any women he would have for the rest of his short life after. ... Hamlet could accept that women treat him with disrespect causing these ideas of Hamlet's to effect his judgement, most likely with any other girls he...

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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, women play a major role in the life of the men in the play. ... Since Hamlet was a prince and therefore royalty, there may have been a chance that Ophelia was after his power or the power that he was going to inherit. ... This resulted in Ophelia's eventual madness and her death. ... The fact that Claudius said that the cup was poisoned to his side and not to Gertrude shows that he was not very disappointed of her death. ... Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes, did what the most involved men in her life wanted. ...

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Have you ever had a week where you felt like absolutely nothing in your life was going your way? ... His problems start after he receives the news of the death of his father. ... After being visited by the ghost of his father, Hamlet discovers that his Uncle Claudius was behind the murder of his father. Hamlet's mission then becomes avenging his father's death. ... The play ends with everyone's death in a violent sword fight scene. ...

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After this letter, Hamlet appears to all of a sudden get to be exceptionally barbarous to Ophelia, first declining he was ever kind to her, then offending her magnificence and trustworthiness, then, as though that were insufficient, requesting she go to a cloister. ... She is unable to ease her pain from her father's death through even revenge, as it is Laertes' duty, unable to ask her brother not to kill the love of her life, and not to say, "Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father." (IV, v, 134-135); this notwithstanding the loss of ...

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(III, iv, 38-40) After discovering the body's identity, Hamlet feels Polonius' murder is not enough and proceeds to berate the corpse. This reveals his indifference towards life, and thus his evil nature. ... The death of Ophelia suggests the death of integrity and innocence. ... Since they all die a bloody blood by some fault of their own, such as Polonius being run through by Hamlet's rapier because of his too inquisitive nature, Ophelia's non-violent death emphasizes the innocence and virtue with which she lived her life. ... Ophelia's noble life, decline int...

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Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. ... Hamlet has the disillusion that women are frail after his mother's rushed remarriage as shown by "Frailty, thy name is woman! ... By disposition, Gertrude turns to the positive side of life and can't bear to face pain. ... The only thing left to make Gertrude unhappy is Hamlet's refusal to forget the death of his father or to forgive her for remarrying so quickly. In order for her to completely bury the past, she must convince Hamlet to accept her new marriage and forget his father's death. ...

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Yet this could be viewed as unjustified as both texts present them as arguably formidable; Gertrude in Hamlet may be viewed critically by audiences as she seems to act without grief when referring to her late husband's death as "common"" in Act One, Scene Two. ... She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and plac...

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In the story of Hamlet, Ophelia is an innocent, nave little girl that put too much trust in the men in her life. ... Ophelia, who truly does love Hamlet, but at the same time loves and wants to obey her father and brother, is having an emotional conflict between the men in her life. ... After Polonius hears of this he believes that Ophelia's love is what has made Hamlet mad. ... death by the one she loves was enough to push her into insanity. ... Near the end, the death of her father leaves Ophelia mentally unstable and in a state of madness that eventually leads her to death. ...

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Hamlet, her only love, is too involved in his father's death to be able to know the true Ophelia. ... He ruins her only happiness in life by separating her from her true love, Hamlet. ... Then, after he tells Ophelia what to do he leaves for most of the play to go to France so he can find some women of his own. ... Hamlet does not take Ophelia's feelings into consideration and spends his time around her insulting her, ruining her reputation, and killing any spirit or hope she has left in her life. ... Ophelia's life was horrible beyond belief but true to life at the time for wom...

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