To which her response is: "O speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears"." ... Gertrude constantly tells Paul how "common" Miriam is, and waits up late for him, like his wife, when he stays out late with Miriam, trying to make him feel guilty. Paul even realizes at the end of the novel that his mother has been the root of his failed relationships, and he asserts that "I shall never meet the right woman while you live." ... What have you heard about me?." ... Paul, like Hamlet, assuages his guilty and incestuous feelings by transferring them elsewhere and the main recipients a...

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He too is cynical, but in a different way than Guildenstern: while Guildenstern gets disappointed in people for not acting as nobly as he would like, the Player expects them to act badly. ... While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. ... He keeps a hawk-like watch over the castle's inhabitants (who almost universally ignore him) and tries to organize himself by establishing the direction of the wind. ... Both of these are...

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• Grade Level: High School

The majority of those within the English speaking cultures may not realize however, the impact Hamlet had on both this movie and every ghost story made after Shakespeare's work. ... Hamlet happens to be one of Shakespeare's most studied and performed plays to this day. ... No other ghost story before or during Shakespeare's time is still relevant today, meaning it can not influence the thoughts people are still having about the dead. ... As a reader, you might not want to make the same "mistake" Hamlet did in the novel, so the fact that this ghost caused fear and death...

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Hamlet, the disillusioned idealist, continues with the motif when he, disheartened, declares: [...] the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave oer hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire- why, it appeareth nothing to me ...

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• Grade Level: High School