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- 5061: Hamlet: Was He Mad?
- ... you come.”1 Hamlet's madness is not only evident in his actions and words, but sometimes in his thoughts. During Hamlet's first soliloquy, he expresses deep anger and resentment against his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage to his uncle. Hamlet:O, that this too too-solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon ... the eye. Sure, Hamlet's actions throughout the play make him seem mad, but in reality, this madness was just a tactic of his in his plan to get revenge for his father's wrongful death. So, to answer the question Hamlet - the prince of William Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet - mad? No.
- 5062: Difference Between Plutarch's and Shakespeare's Caesar
- ... that threatened me Ne'er looked but on my back; when they shall see the face of Caesar, they are vanished." This attitude to a warning implying that he was given fair warning and his death was partially due to his over confidence. On the other hand Plutarch gives him a more sensitive reaction to the dream in saying, "Caesar himself, it seems was affected and by no means easy in ... Whereas, Shakespeare does not say anything about the statue and shows the same coincidences in the play as warnings to him that out of his own stupidity he did not take. Lastly, after Caesar's death the Romans were enraged to revenge him at the sight of his body and out of their love for him, in Plutarch's writing. In Shakespeare's the Roman were enraged but quelled by Brutus ...
- 5063: Macbeth: Character Analysis of Macbeth
- ... often used words of endearment (Dearest love," "Dearest chuck" and "Sweet remembrancer"). At the end, he was so weary from everything that was going on that when he received the news of his wife's death he accepted it with only a yearning resignation. Macbeth's whole story after Duncan's murder was one of continuous character deterioration. Once he had begun his life of crime he became further and further ... Fleance's murder ("The very firstling of my heart shall be/ The very firstling of my hand"). He even went as far as to murder Macduff's wife and family when he knew that their death would not aid him in any way. He became so isolated, to the point where he could not trust any of the other lords ("There's not a one of them but in this house ...
- 5064: Julius Caesar: Brutus' Mistakes or Harmartias
- ... are weaker because of traveling to Philippi, which contributes to their loss. Brutus makes very large mistakes in this play. I think that these three are the largest harmartias made because they lead to his death. Brutus listening to Cassius about assassinating Caesar in the beginning of the play. Brutus not killing Caesar. Brutus having his army meet the enemy in Philippi. These mistakes are so large that they cause Brutus' final tragedy, his death.
- 5065: Dante S Inferno 2
- ... and prays all his life go? This is what distinguishes hell and heaven. Hell is to people, what school is to students, a place where souls of all morals, good or bad, were consigned after death. This is the place of punishment of Satan and the other fallen angels and of all mortals who die unrepentant of serious sin. On the contrary, heaven is to people, what I would be as ... of hell as physical and mental abuse. Before entering their destination of either Hell or Heaven, souls first pass through a state of purgatory. Purgatory according to the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, souls after death either are purified from venial sins or undergo the temporal punishment. The ultimate happiness of their souls is supposed to be thus secured. The second part of The Divine Comedy that Dante wrote is Purgatorio ...
- 5066: Macbeth: Ambition is Root of All Evil
- ... femininity and all human feelings for her desire for power (I,v). The action's of his own wife are crucial to Macbeth's downfall. She strengthens his ambitions and destroys his nobility. Once the death of Duncan has occurred Macbeth is gaining even more ambition and desire for power. Lady Macbeth will soon become less and less part of Macbeth's downfall. He soon becomes very paranoid. He feels he ... to keep himself safe. Each murder kills more and more of Macbeth's morality, and builds his ambitions. At the point in which his wife dies, Macbeth seems to care very little, and after her death, seems not to care at all. Macbeth is, as expected, overthrown and killed. Through his own ambitions, the ambitions of his wife, and the prophesies of the witches, Macbeth has caused his own destruction and ...
- 5067: Hamlet's Madness
- ... him being different. Though towards the end of the play in Act III, Gertrude calls her son to her chambers to discuss the reasoning of his putting on a play so closely related to the death of his father. She tells him how upset Claudius is and is weary of Hamlet's recent actions. At this Hamlet explodes on his mother and threatens to kill her. Gertrude cries for help, and ... whatever he tells them, will be relayed back to the King and Queen. It is for the better that he does not trust the two because it is them who try to carry out his death sentence. In another incident, Hamlet plainly tells them that he is mad without any puns to hide the meaning. Hamlet: I am mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk ...
- 5068: The Similarities Between Creon and Antigone
- ... instead puts his laws first, and states that if he lets Antigone live after she has broken his law, "How shall I earn the worlds obedience?" His extreme will, later leads to his son's death because he thinks his son has been corrupted by Antigone. Antigone is equally as extreme and she will not listen to the reasoning of her sister Ismene. Ismene reminds her of the problems and dangers ... his good judgment. He is so concentrated on everyone being corrupted that he does not even listen to common sense. His son, Haimon tries to come tell him that he should not sentence Antigone to death. Creon is outraged by his son siding with her. He tells Haimon that he is a "Fool, adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman!" Haimon responds to this by saying that he is "perverse" Creon ...
- 5069: The Gradual Development Of Cha
- ... namely Piggy and Simon, both murdered. In this essay it will be shown that the boys on the island move from civilization to total anarchy, through the examples of their use of face paint, the death of Simon and the destruction of the conch. In Lord of the Flies, an example of their move from civilization to anarchy lies the use of face paint among the boys on the island. Some ... meetings. Eventually, the kids stop coming when they hear the conch, and its significance is close to non-existent, but it is a sign of civilization for Piggy. Piggy respects the conch up until his death, and when Jack s raiding party attacks to get fire, [he] was sure [Jack] d go for the conch (p. 155). When the conch is destroyed, too, Golding suggests that all remnants of civilization are ...
- 5070: Movie: The Last Supper
- ... The Last Supper, by Dan Rosen, supposedly dares to take on deep subjects in a vein of sarcastic humor. But, what it says is that liberals, because of their belief, have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film, but it didn't really go anywhere. The most famous actor in the film was Mark Harmon, and ... left and these tomatoes symbolize all the good within these people that was stuck inside of them for so many years. It is also very interesting to point out how the director chronologically places each death into a certain order. The first killing in the movie begins with the worst of all the people, and that is the trucker. Worst, meaning that it seemed as though he was filled with the ...
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