In the tragic drama Hamlet, Shakespeare guides the audience to question whether or not Hamlet is truly mad. Shakespeare leaves the audience to decide if Hamlet is insane or merely angry at women. ... Throughout Hamlet, Hamlet's madness is portrayed through his real madness, his insanity toward women, and the responses of other characters regarding his madness. ... Hamlet tells her, "Make you to ravel all this matter out. ... Due to this outburst Hamlet is now seen as a madman. ...

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Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. ... In Hamlet most of the suffering and loneliness Hamlet endures is brought with the secrets and betrayals he is forced to keep. ... Hamlet learns rather quickly who is loyal to him and whom not to trust. ... Hamlet distances himself away from her as part of his crazed disposition "plan". ... Ultimately Hamlet was the largest component to his eventual downfall. ...

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In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet finds out that his father has been murdered. ... Ophelia, as a female character is suppressed by hamlet in her romantic relationship with him as a cause of Hamlet's selfishness, self-destruction and developed hatred towards women. Throughout the play Hamlet, Hamlet only cares about his own misery happening in his life without thinking about the other people's problems and causing them to suffer. ... Hamlet doesn't just not love Ophelia and his mother, but he hates women. ... Overall the play Hamlet shows that Ophelia, as a female charac...

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This is a subject explored thoroughly in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. ... Hamlet cannot believe that his mother could so quickly fall in love with Claudius when she seemed so in love with Hamlet Senior as well. ... Hamlet then talks crazy to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's spies, who are pretending to just be concerned about Hamlet's well-being. ... After the "Mousetrap," Hamlet has made up his mind. ... Horatio, Hamlet's loyal friend, contemplates suicide at this point, not wanting to go on living without Hamlet around. ...

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Hamlet and Ophelia Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play about the quest for revenge and the tragedies that become of it. ... Ophelia serves as the vehicle for Hamlet's insanity. ... Despite her love for Hamlet, Ophelia is also partly responsible for Hamlet's sudden change of attitude towards her. ... Hamlet's new perspective of Ophelia and women echoes from the hatred that Hamlet has grown for his mother, Gertrude. ... Hamlet connected Ophelia with his Gertrude, whose acts contribute to Hamlet's misogynistic thoughts. ...

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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare there is an obvious question as to whether Hamlet is insane or not. The play hamlet is about a royal family whose king dies. ... After King Hamlet dies, his wife Queen Gertrude marries Claudius and he becomes king, leaving Gertrude and King Hamlet's son without having the throne. ... Also one could say that Prince Hamlet was crazy because Prince Hamlet told Ophelia that he never loved her when she returns letters and gifts to him. ... The play Hamlet creates many opinions on whether or not Prince Hamlet is insane or sane. ...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet is widely considered to be the greatest tragedy ever written because of its depth, contributed in part by its secondary characters, such as Ophelia. Shakespeare suggests innocence and virtue cannot exist in a world of corruption and evil through Ophelia's innocence and virtue, her decline into madness, and ultimately her death. ... Hamlet: I mean my head upon your lap? ... Hamlet: Nothing. ... Shakespeare uses Ophelia's tragic loss to complement Hamlet's demise and in doing so, creates the pinnacle of tragedies. ...

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In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the title character's love for Ophelia comes into question. ... In this essay I will demonstrate that Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia are true and he loves her. ... Hamlet being discreet and personal time and time again reassures Ophelia of his love for her. ... At first, it seems as though Hamlet is mocking her and trying to get rid of her. ... This might imply that Ophelia is pregnant with Hamlet's child. ...

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In the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, characters conflicting with their own personal desires becomes a trend; adding conflict, emotion, and imagery for the reader. ... Ophelia is a prime example of Shakespeare's use of a character to add the classic "Shakespeare open interpretation" for the actors and readers. ... Shakespeare uses characters such as Ophelia to create multiple forms of conflict, in turn, adding to the meaning of the work as a whole. ... Shakespeare proves that Ophelia genuinely loves Polonious through the simple fact that Ophelia is constantly confiding i...

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In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet was thought to have gone mad or insane. ... Seeing Ophelia dead was a reality shock to Hamlet, and his true feelings were brought out. ... There are several clues that help prove the stability of Hamlet's emotions and mental abilities. ... This, however, never occurred in the play which proves that Hamlet was not insane. ... The clues in the text clearly provide the proof that Hamlet was not insane. ...

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The protagonist Hamlet from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, is unhappy and wants revenge for his father's murder. ... Hamlet is also unhappy, his father had been murdered, and his mother had remarried his uncle Claudius. ... In both stories, the protagonists follow their emotions, Hamlet's anger, and Dunstan's guilt. ... Although he suffered, Dunstan goes on to become a successful schoolmaster, whereas Hamlet was less fortunate. ... Hamlet dies for revenge on his uncle, meanwhile killing his mother. ...

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Ophelia, a character from the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, is the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and lover of prince Hamlet. ... Hamlet, her only love, is too involved in his father's death to be able to know the true Ophelia. ... He ruins her only happiness in life by separating her from her true love, Hamlet. ... The only man that Ophelia loves, Hamlet, is the prince of Denmark. ... Shakespeare demonstrated in his play how unjust the world was towards women; despite the fact the leader of England at that time, Queen Elizabeth, was a woman. ...

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Doubt the truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love" (Shakespeare quotes hamlet). ... They were not able to escape their destiny, but by using foreshadowing shakespeare helped us understand why. ... Death is inevitable, but how one dies is determined by fate and whether one can change that or not is up to them, but death will come, Romeo and Juliet's untimely ending came tragedy and Shakespeare used these lines to show that this will indeed happen in the near future. ... The optimistic view on this play is that it is a love story of the two falling in love and sacrificing themselves...

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Shakespeare, however, was able to do it with one character. ... Shakespeare was obviously fascinated by the man.He gave Iago more lines than any other character in his work, including Hamlet, King Lear, or Othello? ... In Shakespeare's Othello he shows us that people should realize and understand their flaws and improve upon them. ...

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Shakespearean Theatre is the name given to the first public theatres built in London during William Shakespeare's life. ... Take for instance, if a tragedy like Hamlet was being played then it was usually expected to have the stage draped in black to fit the mood. ...

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