Hamlet is faced with the knowledge that his own mother stole away his beloved father for her own sinful pleasures of the flesh, this thought to say the least, is maddening for our righteous hero. ... He pushed his beloved Ophelia away, telling her to "get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners"(44)? ...
Even before Hamlet is directed to kill Claudius by his father's ghost, he has an excuse to be enraged and unsettled because of his beloved father's death itself and of the lack of concern or mourning on his mother's part, exhibited by her sudden remarriage to Claudius. ...
In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, seven soliloquies support the idea that the play depicts warfare in Hamlet's soul. As Hamlet awaits the performance of the play, watches Claudius at prayer, and then observes Fortinbras and his army march across Denmark, he debates his duty to his father and Denmar...
Hamlet's Disease The somber images of poison and disease taint the pages of Hamlet, and shadow the corruption pervading the recent and future events of the castle. The poison with which Claudius kills King Hamlet spreads in a sense throughout the country, until "something is rotten in Denmark", as ...
Throughout our lives, we experience various events that change us forever. Once we face one of these events, our lives and personalities may be altered permanently, and we are left to wonder what would have been different had this event not happened. The play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is the p...
Good literature is considered not an escape from reality , but a plunge into a deeper reality, where universal truth's are glimpsed. This statement is true to a high degree for both, The Stone Angel , by Margaret Laurence and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The protagonists, Hagar in The Stone Ange...
Why He Feigns Insanity Hamlet feigns insanity because it allows him to do several things that he otherwise would be unable to do: With respect to Ophelia, Hamlet would like to express his intense, irrepressible anger towards her without arising suspicion in her or in others that he is in ...
