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- 1161: Hamlet Literary Analysis
- ... Hamlet , the tragedy by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, the prince of Denmark withholds a great internal conflict throughout the play. As a result, Hamlet contradicts himself many times throughout out the play, which caused the unnecessary death of many others. As well as trying to be true to himself, Hamlet is an expert at acting out roles and making people falsely believe him. The roles he plays are ones in which he ... madness to accomplish his goals. While one second Hamlet pretends to be under a strange spell of madness, seconds later he may become perfectly calm. He struggles with the issue of avenging his father s death. He vows to kill Claudius but then backs out several times. Hamlet s actions throughout the play support this deceitful nature. His dual personalities are the foundation of his madness. There are many examples that ... mother questions him, Hamlet says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems" (1.2.76). By saying this, Hamlet lets Gertrude know that he is what she sees, torn over his father s death. Later, he makes a clear statement about his state of mind when he commits himself to revenge. "I ll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, ...
- 1162: Teenage Violence
- ... Jonesboro, Arkansas the percent was 8. Attacks with weapons accounted for almost 11,000 incidents in public schools during the 1996-97 school year. There were no figures available for those that which resulted in death. Not surprisingly, public middle schools reported fewer incidents of crime than high schools but more incidents than elementary schools. Criminal violence of the past used to be considered only a "guy thing," however now girls ... and 76 year old Lillian Davenport. Osborne allegedly burned down the home of the elderly couple in the early morning hours of December 14. Osborne was later convicted of these horrifying crimes and sentenced to death. Also in May of 1998, police allege that four teenagers ranging from ages 15 to 18 broke into Alice Summner's home, a local resident of Williamsburg, Kentucky; tied the elderly women up, stabbed her 34 times, and then piled clothes onto her body and set them on fire. Prosecutors do plan seek the death penalty for these heinous crimes. Yet another terrible crime corrupting such a small town was in February of 1999 when two former Cumberland College Football players were indicted with charges of first degree rape ...
- 1163: Ambiguity and Equivocation in Macbeth
- ... 98 Macbeth's voluntary misinterpretation of the ambiguity and equivocation of the witches relates to the play's theme, which states that uncontrolled desire for power often leads to irregular or violent actions, resulting in death and or destruction. After the first of the witches' prophecies comes true, Macbeth begins to believe in their truth. However, he also believes that the prophecies must all lead to his enrichment and empowerment. To ... to fit his own purposes, ignoring the possibility that the prophecies might have other, less fortunate meanings. This voluntary misinterpretation, committed in pursuit of power, leads Macbeth to perform certain actions which result in the death of the king, Macbeth's friends, and eventually his own death. From the beginning of the play, Macbeth desires great power. Lady Macbeth's statement to Macbeth that "When you durst do it, then you were a man;" (I.vii.55) suggests that she and ...
- 1164: Hamlet: Contrast Between Laertes and Hamlet
- ... both display impulsive reactions when angered. Once Laertes discovers his father has been murdered Laertes immediately assumes the slayer is Claudius. As a result of Laertes's speculation he instinctively moves to avenge Polonius's death. "To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: to this point I stand, that both worlds I give to negligence, let come what comes; only ... knocking each other" Act 2, Scene 1, line 82). The loss of Ophelia's love for Hamlet instigates Polonius into believing it has caused Hamlet to revert to antic disposition. Once Laertes learns of the death of his sister he is afflicted with sadness. In the same way, Hamlet is shocked and enraged over Ophelia's demise. Both Hamlet and Laertes are so profoundly distressed at the death of Ophelia they jump into her grave and fight each other. Although Hamlet and Laertes despised one another, they both loved Ophelia. Hamlet was infatuated with Ophelia which was obvious during his constant anguish ...
- 1165: Hamlet - Enstragement In Hamlet
- ... basic religious principles of living. This is shown by Hamlet’s refusal to commit murder thus preventing Hamlet from committing suicide at a time when he felt like doing so to avenge his father’s death because both murder and suicide are considered sins (Cahn 97). " To be, or not to be, that is the question:/ Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ... to take arms a sea of troubles…", (Act III, I.) Hamlet is questioning if it is worth living in such misery or not as everyday he is burdened with trying to avenge his father’s death. At this stage Hamlet is suicidal and risks himself being estranged from his religious principals as he begins to think of suicide. If Hamlet were to kill Claudius, he would be violating a central religious ... murdering King Claudius would make him feel guilt at having violated religious coda, thus representing estrangement at the level of his religious consciousness (Knight 14). As Hamlet has the duty to avenge his father’s death by killing his father’s murderer, the King, Hamlet risks estrangement at the religious level. Hamlet is also principled in a moral sense. To kill a king would mean violating his internal conviction against ...
- 1166: Hamlet: Contrast Plays A Major Role
- ... the grave and somber mood in the second half. The scene opens with two "clowns", who function as a sort of comic relief. This is necessary, after the tension of Ophelia's breakdown (and subsequent death), and after the ever-increasing complexities of the plot. Previously, Polonious provided some humour, but since he is dead, a new source must be found - the gravediggers. Their banter becomes the calm before the storm ... Shakespeare even went so far as to include his puns in this grave scene (V,1,120). Hamlet himself experiences a temporary lightening of mood from listening to the gravediggers' conversation. Their carefree treatment of death singing while digging graves, not to mention tossing skulls in the air) is a parallel to Hamlet's newfound attitude. After having committed himself to his cause in Act IV, he is no longer bothered by the paradox of good and evil, and (seemingly) is untroubled by his previous misgivings. Hamlet's musings on the equality of all men in death serve as a transition into the darker second half of the scene. His contemplations on death reflect Act IV, Scene 3, when Hamlet gives voice to a humorous notion concerning " how a king may ...
- 1167: Teenage Violence: A National Plague
- ... Jonesboro, Arkansas the percent was 8. Attacks with weapons accounted for almost 11,000 incidents in public schools during the 1996-97 school year. There were no figures available for those that which resulted in death. Not surprisingly, public middle schools reported fewer incidents of crime than high schools but more incidents than elementary schools. Criminal violence of the past used to be considered only a "guy thing," however now girls ... and 76 year old Lillian Davenport. Osborne allegedly burned down the home of the elderly couple in the early morning hours of December 14. Osborne was later convicted of these horrifying crimes and sentenced to death. Also in May of 1998, police allege that four teenagers ranging from ages 15 to 18 broke into Alice Summner's home, a local resident of Williamsburg, Kentucky; tied the elderly women up, stabbed her 34 times, and then piled clothes onto her body and set them on fire. Prosecutors do plan seek the death penalty for these heinous crimes. Yet another terrible crime corrupting such a small town was in February of 1999 when two former Cumberland College Football players were indicted with charges of first degree rape ...
- 1168: Dr. Mengele
- ... with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was The Angel of Death. Josef s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical experiments on unwilling participants in Nazi death camps. His post-war life consisted of being constantly on the run; a lonely and depressed fugitive wanted by countries worldwide for the atrocities he committed against Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and others during World War II. His lonely death by drowning, in Brazil, and humiliating post-mortem fate suited the man well. Although this report might seem to follow a chronological order, it is not simply a telling of a life story. It ...
- 1169: Animal Cruelty Leads To Human
- ... by burning, cutting their tails, paws, ears off, put toxic chemicals in their eyes, blinding them, forcing them to eat poison, hanging them from trees; the noose loose enough to create a slow and painful death, as the cat/kitten struggles to free itself as the noose gets tighter with each attempt. Later killed 2 officers at our Nation's Capitol." "Jeffery Dahmer loved to dissect animals (he learned this in ... street of town. He walked into his high school cafeteria and opened fire on his classmates. Two classmates were killed and 22 others injured, four critically. Later that day, police found his parents shot to death in their home." "Prior to committing multiple murders, Luke Woodham, age 16, wrote in his personal journal that he and an accomplice beat, burned and tortured his dog, Sparkle, to death. Woodham said it was "true beauty." He poured liquid fuel down his dog's throat and set fire to her neck, both inside and outside. On 10/1/1977, Woodham stabbed his mother to ...
- 1170: Hamlet - Hamlet, Laertes And Fortinbras
- ... offered love like love, / And will not wrong it," he goes and chooses the lethally sharp and poisoned weapon. Had Laertes acted upon the honorable promptings of his conscience, he would have avoided his own death and, by allying himself with Hamlet, would have won the gratitude of the future King. Laertes' false sense of honor and pride override his better instincts to the fatal harm of both. Recognizing his dishonor ... manifestations. Ophelia tells us that before the events of the play Hamlet was a model courtier, soldier and scholar, "The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / Th' observed of all observers." With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, however, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world" seem to him "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." Though his faith in the value of life has been destroyed by this double confrontation with death and human infidelity, he feels impotent to effect any change in this new reality: "It is not, nor it cannot come to good. / But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue." All ...
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