But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.... ... Thus King Hamlet, "by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch'd" (1.5.74-75). ... Revenge, it becomes clear, never brings anything to resolution; everyone, after all, has some relative, however distant, ready to avenge a wrong. ... When the players arrive at Elsinore, Hamlet requests the first player to recite a favorite speech about Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, who killed King Priam of Troy to avenge his father's death. Deeply engrossed with the s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare does not tell us anything about this scene; all we know is that Hamlet is in some type of stage of pain and despair, and he is questioning is life. ... In one of the Hamlet movies, this scene is set as Hamlet being inside a tomb filled with caskets. ... A perfect example of a short story is "The Death of Ivan Ilyich-. ... Just after the weeping came the money issue, so we know that the whole hanky scene was just a fake act to seen upset. ... But in this case, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich- does not limit the reader in any way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School