1. Hamlet
The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy Historians and scholars since the time of the Renaissance have questioned the authorship of Shakespeare's works. This controversy surfaced mainly because it is so hard to believe that a man who led such an ordinary life could be the genius who is known as the...
However, his mother mourned for a little month and then she married a man who was no more like [his] father/ Than [he] to Hercules (I, ii, 153-152). ... His father, who he looked up to was recently killed, and his mother married his uncle within a month. ...
A messenger tells the chorus of the incident in the following quote: She died by her own hand cried to her husband Laius in the grave, with mention of that seed whereby he sowed death for himself, and left her a son to get her fresh children, shamefully. ... Shamefully was I born: In shame I wedded: to my shame I slew (PG 85) Oedipus has finally accepted tat he murdered his father, Laius and married his mother as his pride falls and he is enlightened to the truth. ... Hamlet is a story about a prince (Hamlet JR.) who is told by a Ghost (Hamlet Sr.) that his uncle (Claudius) had killed his fat...
With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...
Why Hamlet Berates Ophelia Hamlet (see estrangement #5 above) sees in his mother a manifestation of the premise that an unthinking woman, guided by her emotions, might through her actions inflict great stress upon men. At the same time, such a woman might unknowingly make it very difficult for ...