According to the etymology of the word itself, the junction of con with scientia forms conscientia which means a "knowledge with." ... How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. (1.2.129-134) Depressed by his father's death and distraught by his mother's impure remarriage, Hamlet wishes that he could become nothing more than a vapor and simply vanish. ... In Hamlet's famous fourth soliloquy, we see Hamlet's conscience urging him not to end his life and its problems but to endure their trials because of the risks of what happens aft...

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Hamlet was a tragedy by definition, containing definite stages of development, with the expectation of resolution. ... Hamlet considers ending the torture of his life. ... He reaches Hamlets conclusion that life must be preferable to death, and says, -Life in a box is better than no life at all, d expect. ... Yet one idea about death changes from Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ... Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are both preoccupied with the philosophy of language; Hamlet through the many questions and riddles, which reveal the main character's st...

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At the same time, in William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from his play "Hamlet," the main character struggles with whether to live or to take his own life. ... These three literary works share the commonality that they all deal with the issue of death. ... The three poems show different feelings towards death such as Thomas's "fight" against it, Bryant's embracement of it, and Shakespeare's uncertainty. ... In Shakespeare's soliloquy, Hamlet shows his uncertainty for what happens after death when he describes death as "the undiscovered country from w...

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At the very end, in that last communication between the artists bringing the work to life and the audience, there may still be some interpretation. ... This creates a very simple suspenseful ambience of uncertainty that will hold through to the end of the film. ... The film opens with a funeral for old king Hamlet. ... This could be Zeffirelli's way of suggesting that the queen had a high degree of culpability in the death of old King Hamlet. ... The theme of madness is accentuated once again at the close of the scene with Hamlet's first soliloquy. ...

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This shows how Shakespeare uses the audience's uncertainty to manipulate their response to the play. ... Likewise, when Hamlet kills Claudius in the midst of a murder plot, his desire is to send him to eternal damnation and avenge his father's death. ... 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted ev'n just between twelve and one, ev'n at the turning o' th' tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as ...

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The Shakespearean authorship controversy has continued for over 300 years; yet with a multitude of scholars on both sides their respective research has not made clear the muddy waters of suspicious uncertainty. ... It was not until seven years after his death in 1616 that a huge memorial volume of the First Folio appeared, produced by several of Shakespeare's theatrical associates of all his plays. ... In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the...

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