Ms. Luu Journal #1 –Hamlet “My family is my strength and my weakness” – Aishwarya Rai This quote is written on the basis of paradox. After further understanding‚ this quote by Aishwarya Rai makes perfect sense. As family‚ they are the first ones to support you during troubles and obstacles. This provides strength for the individual‚ allowing him or her to continue on. However‚ high expectations and stress induced by family members can be the downfall of individuals
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E: Evaluate the role of family in a character’s success or failure in Hamlet. In the famous play Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ family takes an enormous part in the failure in the main character‚ Hamlet. What is interesting about his family dynamic and the way his family affects Hamlet’s actions‚ is that it directly correlates to Emile Durkheim’s theory on structural functionalism. It is a theory that studies our social structure and culture‚ and how they work together and affect us. Durkheim
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Shakespeare often kills most of the important characters in his plays. Hamlet‚ is no exception. Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. Before the play begins‚ Hamlet’s father (the King of Denmark) is assassinated by his own brother‚ Claudius. Before the play even begins‚ people relevant have already died. The reader expects that Denmark will be a location of lots of action. Hamlet has an effect on Denmark. If Hamlet did not exist‚ all of the characters in the play would not be dead. Obviously not everyone
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I. Hamlet’s character revealed. a. The soliloquies show that Hamlet is an intelligent man being able to plot revenge on his Uncle‚ while giving the idea that he was insane. b. Hamlet’s loyalty to his father even in death is also shown in the soliloquies. c. Hamlet’s desire to kill himself is evident‚ but he is unable because of his faith. II. Act I scene ii a. Hamlet is upset that his mom remarried only two months after his dad’s death b. Hamlet is in mourning‚ he mourns the death of his
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prompts us to action. Hamlet Ready to die in an effort to escape what he is feeling after his father dies but cannot‚ as it is ungodly. “Oh‚ that this too‚ too sullied flesh would melt‚ Thaw‚ and resolve itself into a dew‚ Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon against self-slaughter! O God‚ God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and unprofitable‚ Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (I.ii) This is Hamlets first soliloquy and our first look into Hamlet as a character and we are immediately introduced
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no guilt towards her marriage. Hamlet criticizes her marriage by saying‚ “Heaven and earth‚ Must I remember? Why‚ she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on‚ and yet‚ within a month—Let me not think on’t—Frailty‚ thy name is woman!‚”(1.2.142-146) He is disgusted by her tainted relationship with Claudius that eats away her purity as a female‚ even accusing her‚ “you have my father much offended.”(3.4.12-13) When she witnesses Hamlet killing Polonius‚ she immediately
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The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ written in 1599 repeatedly brings up female sexuality. The emphasis on female sexuality has a lot to do with the time period and gender stereotypes in the time‚ some that are still vivid in the twenty first century. Some of the common disbeliefs are that all women are associated with corruption and temptation (Wilcox 45)‚ this stereotype comes about from the story of Adam and Eve‚ which has been around since the creation of Christianity. Hamlet was written
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Irony In Hamlet One of the most useful motifs in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the use of irony. Harry Levin’s “Irony in Hamlet” explains that ironic commentary is a technique that reinforces the poetic justice of the work. Our first impression of Hamlet is derived at the gathering in the courtyard‚ dressed in black for his deceased father. He has a melancholic demeanor about him and he is kept to himself. His first words say that Claudius is "A little more than kin and less than kind‚"(Shakespeare
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Laertes and Hamlet Laertes and Hamlet both display impulsive reactions when angered. Once Laertes discovers his father has been murdered‚ he immediately assumes the slayer is Claudius. As a result of Laertes’ speculation‚ he instinctively moves to avenge Polonius’ death. "To hell‚ allegiance! Vows‚ to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace‚ to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: to this point I stand‚ that both worlds I give to negligence‚ let come what comes; only I’ll be revenged most thoroughly
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Efthimios Mariakakis Professor Mihailovic 5-14-01 Though Shakespeares’ Hamlet and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King were written in two different eras‚ echoes of the latter can be found in the former. The common theme of Hamlet and Oedipus the King is regicide. Also‚ like in Oedipus the King‚ there is a direct relationship between the state of the state and the state of their kings. Furthermore‚ there is also a relationship between Oedipus’ armed entrance into the bedroom in which Jocasta hanged
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