Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth Shall nothing wrong him. ... As literary critic Morris White notes, His government works smoothly. ... He simply has a goal in mind, which is to be King, and will stop at nothing until he achieves it. ... Furthermore, both men appear to have intricately planned their course of action in detail, but the truth is that they only planned the beginnings of their campaigns and acted opportunistically throughout the rest of the play. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At first Hamlet knows that he wants nothing more than to avenge his father, but with time he gains a sense of skepticism, even questioning whether the ghost is "damned- or not. ... In a letter to Ophelia, Hamlet exclaims Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (2,2 126-127 Here Hamlet proves that, though he doubts what he has learned in books and in the University, he will not doubt what he knows to be true and what he feels is right. ... However, the limitations of devotion to feelings are noted in the play, and the story ends on a tragic note because of the irrational events ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). ... May believes that it is because his own observations of the habits of animals and plants were explained by stories that were more myth that truth. ... Although the court sometimes pressured his into including some form of the supernatural in his plays that had nothing to do with his themes, he rarely allowed Elizabethans' demands to affect his own conception of how the supernatural should be used. ... The fairies mix freely with men and women of the court and, through childish pranks, do no...

• Word Count: 1725
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Immediately, Hamlet must determine whether the ghost speaks the truth, and to do so he must cope with theological issues. ... Looking towards Horatio as a model of the Christian stoicism he needs to pull himself through the play, Hamlet comments on him: '. . .thou hast been / As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, / A man that fortune's buffets and rewards / Hast ta'en with equal thanks. . . .Give me that man / That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / I my hearts core' (III.ii. 70-79). ... Francisco notes, ''tis bitter cold,...

• Word Count: 1879
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School