Hamlet finds himself so dead-set on this plan, that when he orders his friends to "Never make known [tonight's occurrences] "(1.5.158), he fails to even consider that the Ghost's order to "swear "(1.5.167) to this may in actuality be for he himself to heed, playfully ordering the apparition to leave, and remaining blissfully ignorant of reality in his euphoric ecstasy. ... Hamlet is only all-to willing to sacrifice his humanity for the sake of little more than madness, but the Ghost's later commands to swear to keep their meeting to himself could in fact be an attempt by Hamlet&...

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The smooth brass petals always under my feet represent friends in life that seem to make everything less intense when I feel the despondent depths of darkening depression, and the fantastic moments even richer than I ever thought possible. Lastly, the little but sturdy wooden bench, my family, is the very foundation I rest upon- cushioning my falls and supporting me in all the curve balls life seems to through. ...

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Like many other diary writers, James' decision to write a little every day was in hope that it might "bring relief as an outlet to that geyser of emotions, sensations, speculations, and reflections which ferments perpetually within my poor old carcass for its sins," (Edel, 25) for her inner turmoil was motivated by a desperate sense of isolation. ...

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Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). ...

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