Hamlet 13
.... unaffected, she is happy, and she will not let anything shatter her fantasy.
So we see that most everyone in Hamlet wears a mask. These masks all serve to provide the characters with protection, and also enable them to receive something that they want to get. From the women wanting a perfect world to Claudius seeking to convince everyone of his kindness the characters use the mask in hopes to benefit their current situations. The theme of masks is developed early on to set up a type of control, whic .....
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Hamlet 14
.... Up until this part of the play, I do not think of Hamlet as a very angry and vengeful person, but more as a person struggling with an inner conflict. I think the first version of “To be or not to be” portrays Hamlet the best.
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Hamlet 15
.... to go to hell, so Hamlet must make sure that he is doing what is right. He does not want to be influenced by the devil in any way. The Christian thoughts of the time stated that vengeance was a sin. Hamlet wants to avenge his father's death but if he were to kill Claudius his soul may not be saved. Hamlet wants to be a better person than his Uncle, but if he were to become a murderer he would be just like Claudius.
One more place in this play that focuses on the Christian influence is in Claudius's b .....
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Hamlet 16
.... Horatio, when he says, "Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep"(5.2 lines 4-5). This lack of restraint leads to Hamlet's unpredictable mood swings throughout the play. Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia easily spawns such dramatic alterations in the prince's attitude. For example, when Hamlet first suspects Ophelia acting only as a pawn for her father Polonius's benefit, he reacts rashly, bitterly denying that he ever loved her. Hamlet said to Ophelia in a very firm .....
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Hamlet 17
.... puns in response once again, saying "Not so my lord; I am too much in the sun." [Act I, Scene II, L. 69]. In both of these quotes (L. 67 & 69) Hamlet shows a depressed detachment and an obvious satirical mood. In lines 79-89 of the same scene, Hamlet opens up a little more to his mother after she asks him why it is that he "seems" so distressed/depressed by his father death, explaining to him "All that lives must die." [Act I, Scene II, L. 74]. In response to his mothers question Hamlet explains that .....
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Hamlet 2
.... ). During the play Hamlet watches is uncle Claudius to see his reaction when the actors perform the murder scene. Hamlet plan works his uncle throws a fit and runs out the room, where Hamlet goes after him. When Hamlet catches up to his uncle his uncle is kneeling down praying, and Hamlet pulls out his sword and gets ready to kill him. But all the sudden Hamlet changes his mind because if he kills his uncle while he's praying he will go to heaven, and Hamlet wants him to go to hell. So hamlet postpones the .....
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Hamlet 2
.... “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” (I.iii.80). This is important because sometimes when things are borrowed, the lender will get mad that the borrower didn’t return when it was needed or the borrower ruined part of it. Even when it is an accident, it is still better to not borrow or lend anything from anyone just in case one person has a short temper. Polonius lastly and most importantly tells Laertes, “This above all to thine own self be true”. This is good advice becau .....
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Hamlet 3
.... taking one last flip through the channels and it just so happens that one finds his/her favorite movie just started, and so on. So of course these five, maybe ten minute minor setbacks turn into hours. These long delays enable one to even forget the task at hand. And the next thing that winds up happening is this person will put the room off for another day or two. Hamlet shows these same tendencies throughout the play. As Ernest Jones well says in his psychoanalysis of Hamlet,
“Time and ag .....
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Hamlet 6
.... to be murdered and his mother
to be married so soon after his father's death to his uncle. This shows us
that he is pitying himself and is putting himself down. Yet another example
of his emotions running wild are seen in his first soliloquy:
...She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such
dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to
good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue! 3
He is telling us that his mother has .....
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Hamlet 7
.... heard this, he held a play where the murder of his father is reacted in a scene,
that Hamlet himself designed. The purpose of this was to see Claudius’s reaction to the scene to
prove if Claudius is the real murderer or not. After Claudius sees the play he storms out of the stage
scared and surprised. Claudius then prays to heaven for forgiveness of his sins since he knows that
Hamlet has figured out what he has done, he does this so he will not get sent to hell. Claudius says,
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Hamlet 8
.... Horatio’s comment may be where Hamlet gets the idea to use a plea of insanity to work out his plan. Later, when Hamlet tells his mother that he saw the ghost in his mothers room, her amazement at his madness is quite convincing.
Another instance of Hamlet’s behavior, manipulation in his meeting with Ophelia, where his uncle and Polonius are hiding behind a curtain.(Earlier in the play it is made quite clear, Hamlets feeling towards Ophelia.) When his complete rejection of her was c .....
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Aristotle On Excellence In Lea
.... "excellent" citizen for having a quality different from the qualities of the majority. However, this course of action would only waste the gift of a small part of the whole and promote mediocrity. The other option, Aristotle's suggestion, is to utilize the gift of the preeminently "excellent" citizen to protect the state's constitution by making him the ruler of the state. Aristotle further justifies his position by stating that a citizen should not be made the ruler of a state because of his wealth .....
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Hamlet 9
.... he himself is by reality. Hamlet demonstrates not only a great honesty and bravery in facing his own fears and doubts and condemning them, but his shrewd plan to discover the truth of Claudius’s guilt reveals Hamlet’s intelligence and prudence as well. What if Hamlet had been some other character, of equal honor and virtue, but less of a thinker and more of a man bent on action? It is his choice to think things through that lends his future deeds credence and justification. Hamlet supports t .....
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Hamlet A Critical Analysis
.... style. Even though all he was really doing was following the king's inclinations. Polonius was slained by Hamlet after having been mistaken for the King. The next to die is Ophelia, she, is entirely manipulated by Hamlet and the king, for their own selfish reasons. She killed herself after knowledge of her fathers' death. Last to die was Laertes, it is easily seen how laertes, in the heat of his anger could conspire to murder, though he kills hamlet he is avenging his fathers' death, an act, with .....
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Crime And Punishment 8
.... mistake that should not ruin his life. He wants to do evil, to commit murder, in order to test his theory that there is such a thing as a crime of principle. He believes he is brilliant and more gifted than other people are and has the right to commit crimes to accomplish his goals. All he needs is daring. The problem is, he's not exactly sure what his goals are. He also wants to do good. He wants to save his sister from an unhappy marriage, and his mother from sacrificing for him. He wants to help .....
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