Hamlet synthesis questions. Below are a list of questions we will be discussing next week (depending on your class day). You will be assigned one questions will serve both as a quiz grade AND a basis for our class discussion. This assignment has two parts: 1. A brief research portion‚ where you will paraphrase a critic’s point 2. Your own opinion of the question with at least 5 quotes to back up your position. Remember‚ we are going to look at the entire play—your response should include a discussion
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03 October 2013 Hop Frog In Edgar Allen Poe’s 1849 short story‚ Hop Frog‚ the main character is a crippled dwarf that is forced to be a court jester under the king’s rule and later attains his revenge by killing him. Poe uses great characterization throughout the story to not only help the reader relate to Hop Frog‚ but to also show justice in his horrifying actions. He characterizes Hop Frog‚ Trippetta‚ and the king and his ministers in a way that allows readers to empathize with the story’s ending
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Akbar the Great (in white) visits a shrine In 1582‚ King Philip II of Spain received a letter from the Mughal Emperor Akbar of India. Akbar wrote: "As most men are fettered by bonds of tradition‚ and by imitating ways followed by their fathers... everyone continues‚ without investigating their arguments and reasons‚ to follow the religion in which he was born and educated‚ thus excluding himself from the possibility of ascertaining the truth‚ which is the noblest aim of the human intellect. Therefore
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Petronius was courtier and literary poet of the 1st century A.D‚ under the reign of Emperor Nero. Emperor Nero succeed the throne from his great-uncle Claudius in 54 A.D. after his death by dubious circumstances. Nero ascended the throne at at seventeen‚ mentally ill-equipped
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what to do with himself. He was not even allowed to go to school. Claudius wants to keep an eye out for Hamlet and asks him not to go to Wittenberg. “And we beseech you‚ bend you to remain / Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye‚ / Our chiefest courtier‚ cousin‚ and our son.” (1. 2. 119-121). This caused Hamlet to become obsessed with his pursuit of determining the reason for his existence. However‚ after Hamlet’s encounter with the ghost of Old Hamlet‚ he was given a motive. Old Hamlet tells Hamlet
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that were to be copied and distributed throughout the land. No other portraits were allowed. What was the real Elizabeth like? 5’3 or 5’5 with brown eyes and red curly hair. She had a bad temper and would throw things or threaten to send courtiers to the Tower if they upset her. She swore and spat when she was angry. Elizabeth’s teeth were black with tooth decay. Her
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I would like to tell you about my visit to the one of the most beautiful museums in the world The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is located in the east of Central Park‚ being‚ in fact‚ part of it. The main entrance is the majestic and pathetic. The building has several floors are spacious‚ and each of the gallery halls like immerses the visitor in a parallel world. Whether it’s a bloodthirsty Aztec god figurine‚ rock reliefs by the ancient Sumerians‚ harmoniously ancient statue‚ sarcophagus with
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everyone is equal‚ he thinks’ he is higher than everyone else. Gonzalo’s word shows that even he‚ gentle Gonzalo‚ has the desire to rule and to acquire power. Gonzalo idealized Utopia suggests; a land where everyone is equal and happy. The king’s courtiers do not recognize an authority on the island; to them it is a free land. Instead of trying to unite‚ they fracture: while the court sleeps‚ Antonio and Sebastian plot
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Other courtiers were jealous of the rapid rise of the Boleyn family and placed many accusations that were taken to trial and she was beheaded. When Henry was leaving the Catholic church‚ there was an uprising in the north of England against this movement. The reformation
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causing the baths to become one of the only places where Romans could clean themselves. As well as this‚ the baths were used as gathering places for Romans where they could relax with their friends and acquaintances. Many Romans such as Petronius – a courtier in the first century AD – enjoyed the baths. Petronius’ experience in the baths is accounted in one of his essays. “We quickly undressed‚ went into the hot baths and after working up a sweat‚ passed on to the cold bath. … His skin was glistening
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