When Laertes proclaims his love for Ophelia and his sorrow for her death, Hamlet rushes from his concealment and jumps into the grave after Laertes. Hamlet insults Laertes when he states, Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum (V, i, 234-236). He is so cynical that he doubts that Laertes is sincere, even though there is no proof that Laertes is not being perfectly honest. ... At the funeral when the priest implies that Ophelia should be buried in ground unsanctified have log'd, (V, i, 239) Laertes protests, and he claims that Ophelia shall bec...

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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 ...

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Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ...

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Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare that very closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theater. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era were Hamlet, written by Shakespear...

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Don Quixote TIME: In the spring of 1580 in Spain. However bookkeeping was a complicated and arduous procedure and Don Miguel Cervantes was twice imprisoned for owing money to the treasury from a shortage in his accounts. Cervantes disagrees whether or not the Seville prison was the proper place to begin writing Don Quixote. Each act is about a two days journey with each scene taking place in the morning, afternoon, and night. PLACE: La Mancha, Spain. ...

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