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    Slamming doors‚ cold‚ clear tears running down your face like miniscule rivers. The yelling has subsided and it is eerily quiet‚ but the anger still roars inside of you. A fight with the parents is never a pleasant one. The relationship between a father and son is a strong bond‚ which can be devastated if one of them is murdered. What if‚ perhaps‚ that fight or conversation took place with you dead father. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 1 Hamlet Jr. is presented with that not so usual situation

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    There are parents who decide what their kids future is going to be. Some parents tend to tell their kids what they want them to be when they grow up . These parents put expectations for their kids way too early in life forcing them to become what their parents want them to be. This is unfair to sons/daughters because they might be stuck becoming something they don’t like or simply aren’t good at. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a son named Hamlet is trying to avenge his father’s death who was killed by

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    Hamlet is a very ironic play.You may start to question each characters thoughts at one point in the script. Especially the main character Hamlet‚ does he truly go insane or is it all a trick? For me in this play I never knew what was to be expected. In the play Hamlet is he really insane or is he faking? Hamlet has a plan from the beginning and that is to find out answers about his fathers death‚ and his suspicions lead him to his uncle. He decides to act like he was going insane to hopefully get

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    In Act 1‚ Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet‚ Prince Hamlet has an encounter with his father’s ghost‚ where it is revealed to him that his uncle had plotted to poison and kill his father‚ and that his mother and uncle were lusting after each other for a long while already. At this moment of revelation‚ it is clear that Hamlet is angered by the news and is now seeking out revenge. Implied within context of the situation‚ Hamlet’s sense of belonging had now been attacked. This relates back to Maslow’s

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    Bastards‚ scorn sisters‚ vengeful family members and numerous amounts of deaths‚ what a tragedy. Shakespeare’s play “King Lear” allows the audience to watch as two families are torn apart by greed for the same reason‚ power. Among the themes developed through animal imagery‚ the most notable ones would be those of Madness‚ Family and Nothingness. In the well renowned play “King Lear”‚ animal imagery is used throughout the play to give thorough insight to the themes of Madness‚ Family and Nothingness

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    The war between a passion and one’s morality can cause tremendous conflicts‚ both within oneself and with outer factors. For this reason‚ the conflict between a private passion and responsibility is a popular theme within literature. Shakespeare’s Hamlet accurately portrays a character of this sort. Hamlet faces a desire for revenge‚ seeking to right the death of his innocent father. This task creates conflicts and follows the prince‚ which drives the plot and thematic values of the play forward

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    Real Life Loyalty and Betrayal As Seen In Macbeth Like in the real world‚ in Macbeth William Shakespeare reveals loyalty is not possible if there is a betrayal. Loyalty is the quality of being loyal to someone or something.The state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Loyalty is like a bond that can’t be broken unless there is betrayal in the mix of it. You can’t gain loyalty if you’re a betrayal person because betrayal is similar to lies and once you lie it

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    While hiding on Jackson’s Island‚ Huck and Jim discover a floating house on the river. Upon further inspection‚ Jim locates a gruesome body and instructs Huck to keep his distance. When Jim covers up the cadaver‚ he is demonstrating a protective and fatherly influence on Huck. Although worldly and repugnant aspects of life have shattered Huck’s innocence‚ Jim’s comparatively spotless provision illustrates a resilient parental role. Furthermore‚ Twain describes Jim’s love for Huck during the fog river

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    the possibility to be this in-between character. Throughout the play he contemplates both paths but always hesitates to actually complete either. Instead‚ he flips back in forth between killing his uncle‚ Claudius‚ to avenge his father and killing himself. Each time Hamlet goes to kill Claudius‚ he seems to hesitate and make excuses. It happens once while Hamlet is watching a traveler’s show‚ “O‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ but in a fiction‚ in

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    Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian astrologer in the 2nd century who’s theories of astronomy‚ known as the Almagest‚ which he based a model of the Universe which influenced Western and Arabic societies for the next 1‚500 years. The Ptolemaic system is a geocentric cosmology assuming that the Earth is stationary and the centre of the universe. Ptolemy’s model showed that planets revolved around a point and that point revolved around another point which was earth. In order to explain the motion of the

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