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    The Shakespearean play‚ Hamlet‚ is a story of revenge and the way the characters in the play respond to grief and the demands of loyalty. The importance of Fortinbras and Laertes in the play is an issue much discussed‚ analysed and critiqued. Fortinbras and Laertes are parallel characters to Hamlet‚ and they provide pivotal points on which to compare the actions and emotions of Hamlet throughout the play. They are also important in Hamlet as they are imperative to the plot of the play and the final

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    The Role of the Ghost in Hamlet by William Shakespeare  The role of the ghost in Hamlet is twofold: firstly it is to create  interest; secondly it is to further the narrative of the play.  Shakespeare recognized that he needed to create interest in the  audience from the very first scene of the play.  The play opens with a conversation between Officers of the Watch who  patrol the Battlements of Elsinore castle. Their talk is of a ghost  who has appeared before twice previously: 

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    Chloe Jeffery – 2090 words To What Extent is Act One an Effective Opening to Hamlet? The play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare is set in the late sixteenth century. Most scenes take place in the grounds of the Danish castle at Elsinore. The story begins almost immediately with a brief yet abrupt five scene act entailing the state of affairs within the Court of Denmark. Each scene contributes to the overall exposition significantly and Act One effectively captures the interest of the audience

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    Shakespeare’s Hamlet Shakespeare’s Elizabethan revenge tragedy demonstrates the composer’s ability to address and explore the universalities of human existence. Hence‚ though the Senecan tragedy‚ Shakespeare illustrates Hamlet’s tension between duty and resistance through introspection towards his father’s prescribed revenge‚ which becomes central in allowing Shakespeare to encapsulate the fragmentation of the human experience due to internal and external influences. The oscillation of Hamlet between

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    Along with Hamlet‚ King Lear and Macbeth‚ Othello is one of the four greatest tragedies written during Shakespeare’s tragic period. But Othello is unique among the others. Unlike Hamlet‚ King Lear and Macbeth‚ which are set against a backdrop of affairs of the nation‚ Othello focuses on human nature. Love‚ jealousy‚ racism and deceit are universal themes not only evident in Shakespeare’s time‚ but also in our time and in the future. They are patterns of human nature which are continuous in the history

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    Analysis on Hamlet In one of the greatest plays‚ Hamlet‚ William Shakespeare introduces a tragic story of the royal family of Denmark‚ which contains elements of politics‚ loyalty‚ heroism‚ friendship‚ and love. Allan Massie‚ a writer for The spectator‚ argues that Prince Hamlet is “an indecisive and self-questioning Romantic intellectual (the Gielgud interpretation)‚ or as a mixed-up kid‚ immature‚ uncertain of himself‚ veering from self-love to self-loathing by way of self-pity.” However‚ Hamlet‚ the

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    the of good versus evil‚ the foolishness of intellectual pretensions‚ and most importantly the theme of reality versus illusion. An important character Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter Hulga‚ born as Joy has a Ph. D but seems to have no common sense. She allows her self to be tricked by a “Bible salesman” and gets her self in to a binding situation. Good Country people deals with illusion vs. reality this is shown when the author discusses Manley Pointer; the bible sales man‚ Joy thinking she is ugly‚ and

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    Appearance and Character “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (41) ponders Ponyboy‚ a Greaser‚ when he realizes social class does not define a person. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders tells of a town where social class splits the citizens into the lower class Greasers‚ who others view as horrible‚ selfish‚ tough‚ trouble-making criminals‚ and the upper class Socs or Socials‚ who the townspeople view as the privileged‚ wealthy‚ law-abiding people. Throughout

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    deterioration in Hamlet ​William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet explores the thought process of a man on a mission for revenge and the psychological factors associated with it. By making Hamlet an over-contemplating protagonist Shakespeare is successfully able to explore the thought process of someone out to get revenge. A major theme in the play Hamlet is mental deterioration. Hamlet’s antics blur the line between acting and real madness‚ Ophelia loses her ability to rationalize after losing Hamlet then her

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    s Hamlet a tragic hero? In many senses‚ Hamlet is the quintessential tragic hero. Not only does he begin with the noblest motivations (to punish his father’s murderer) but by the end‚ his situation is do dire that the only plausible final act should be his death. Like the classical tragic hero‚ Hamlet does not survive to see the full outcome of his actions and more importantly‚ this is because he possesses a tragic flaw. While there are a number of flaws inherent to his character‚ it is Hamlet’s

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