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The preferred topic is the one you come up withsome line, idea, character, plot twist, quote, soliloquy, passage, etc.that you would like to investigate and elaborate on. You do not need research (but you may) but you must use the text in your paper. If you do read other sources (than your own brain), create a works cited or works consulted page. 1. What does the play say about what it means to be human There are many famous passages in the play in which the human condition is discussed. In addition, there are events and characters in the play that suggest ideas about the human condition. 2. What does this play say about thinking carefully versus taking action Hamlet discusses this issue in several speeches in addition, his and other characters actions make statements about this issue. 3. What does this play say or imply about friendship Consider not only Hamlets relationship with Horatio, but also with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also examine Claudius friendship with Polonius. 4. Discuss several ways that Hamlet is trapped. This may due to his situation or his character or both. How does this state of being trapped reflect on the human condition or the nature of mans reality 5. Choose ANY major character and discuss his/her personalities or motivations, or goals, AND purposes in the play as you see it. Tie this purpose into a coherent theme or observation the play is making. 6. Discuss Denmark as a diseased or unweeded garden and Hamlet as a man in a fallen world. 7. Explain and discuss Hamlet as a tragic hero. How does he fit and not fit Aristotles definition (given to you last year.) 8. Choose any soliloquy and discuss its function (not just its meaning) in the play. Close analysis of words, imagery, diction, paradox and other rhetorical devices is expected. Do not just paraphrase it. Soliloquies Act I, ii Act II, ii Act III, I Act III,iii (Claudius) or Act III, iii (Hamlet) Act IV, iv l.34-68. 9. Discuss in depth the