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- 771: Romeo & Juliet: Friar Lawrence Is Short-Sighted
- ... he is saying that the only reason he will marry Romeo and Juliet is because he hopes that the marriage will end the hostilities between the two houses. When he says "Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua." (Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything ...
- 772: Julius Caesar: The Use of Suspense
- ... would be honorable to assassinate Caesar. Cassius tells Brutes that the fate of Rome is in trouble with Caesar in power, which helps build suspense early in the play. To convince Brutes conclusively, cassius forged letters and threw them into Brutus's window where he was sure to find them. Shakespeare wrote this statement: "we will awake him and be sure of him. This is a very powerful statement that builds ...
- 773: The Problem in Macbeth
- ... with it. To avoid the consequences by the fatal action it is of importance to stop time, let the present time remain, what it is. That is exactly, what Lady Macbeth belief is possible: Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now This future in the instant. (Act 1, sc.5, l.55-57) And when she finds out that according to the plan Duncan is ...
- 774: Questionable Heros in the Play Julius Caesar
- ... He said he feared Caesar accepting the crown he said, although he had not a notion of killing the man at the time. He was manipulated into doing it by Cassius and the two fake letters that Cassius sent to him in the name of the citizens of Rome. When he kills Julius Caesar by stabbing him even as he looked him in the eye he believes that he and the ...
- 775: Hamlet: Ophelia and Gertrude
- ... that it was in mad love for Ophelia that Hamlet did this and he was even more upset after Ophelia had told him that she was refusing to see him or receive any on his letters. Polonius, without hesitation, rushes to the King to tell him of the act committed to Ophelia. As soon as Polonius sees the Queen and King he starts telling them about Hamlet's love for Ophelia ...
- 776: Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist
- ... either disgrace his society by allowing a fake and murderer to rule or to correct the unknown wrong. Secondly Hamlet suspected Rosencrantz and Guildendtern of being manipulated by the deceptive king, so he checked the letters on the way to England. In doing so he uncovered the fact that they weren't the true friends they appeared to be. Hamlet found out that the king had ordered for him to be ...
- 777: Hamlet: In His Right Mind's Eye
- ... the letter while they slept an changed it “I sat me down, devised new comission, wrote it fair.” Hamlet escaped on a pirate ship, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern did not know about the change of letters until they were the ones that were killed. These actions required cold calculation and execution, two things not found in madmen. Finally, the most important fact showing that Hamlet was indeed not crazy is that ...
- 778: Hamlet: Emotional States
- ... aware that Hamlet has planned to feign insanity, it seems strange that by entering Ophelia's room in so disheveled a condition. This may be because of the way Ophelia offended Hamlet, by repelling his letters and denying him access to her." (Lidz, 46). Ophelia's "repelling" of Hamlet causes him to become depressed and even more confused. This may be why in his letter to her (II, ii, 119-123 ...
- 779: Hamlet: Appearance vs. Reality
- ... Hamlet is out of the room a few moments later Claudius has a complete change of face in which he reveals his plan to have Hamlet executed; "Our sovereign process, which imports at full/By letters congruing to that effect/The present death of Hamlet" (Shakespeare IV363-65). Even the love Claudius showed for Gertrude can be questioned in its validity. Claudius, near the beginning of the play, appears to be ...
- 780: Hamlet: An Instrument of Life - Hamlet's Contribution To the Play
- ... deliberate action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion, when he has no time to reflect, as in the scene where he kills Polonius and again, where he alters the letters which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are taking with them to England purporting his death." (Bratchell, D.F. Shakespearean Tragedy. New York: Routledge, 1990.) Hamlet has fallen to a poor will, he acts blindly and therefore behaves ...
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