Friendship is not always having the same personalities. William Shakespeare often portrays complicated friendship in his plays. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ he portrays two friends with opposite personalities but completes each other’s lacking qualities. Hamlet and Horatio are good friends. From being childhood friends to becoming an adult‚ they remained loyal to each other. Although with almost similar upbringing‚ Hamlet and Horatio are both intelligent and loyal to each other‚ they have their own
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his mother‚ who had just married him right after his father’s decease. However‚ as the play continues‚ Hamlet meets up with his ghostly father‚ and then becomes restless with determination for revenge. Therefore has led Hamlet to obtain a sense of cleverness‚ when he invites Claudius to watch his self-directed play. Hamlet is a very dynamic character rather than static‚ and was introduced in the beginning of the play as dark‚ gloomy‚ and longing for his father. As mentioned‚ Hamlet was depressed
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Hamlet appears to him and tells him of it. Hamlet’s main task is to find proof of the accusation that the ghost has made. Throughout his quest‚ doubts are evident‚ but are soon replaced with the convincing proof which Hamlet discovers after he puts on a play called THE MOUSETRAP. This play reenacts the murder of Hamlet’s father which causes Claudius to become very uncomfortable because he is truly guilty. There can be a couple ways of looking at Hamlet’s character. “Hamlet has been subject to more
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Hamlet: A Sane Man Hamlet was indeed a very sane man. He was only feigning madness to further his own plans for revenge. His words were so cleverly constructed that others will perceive him as mad. It is this consistent cleverness that is the ultimate evidence of his complete sanity. Can a mad person be so clever? No‚ a mad person cannot. Hamlet is sane and brilliant. After Hamlet‚ Horatio‚ and Marcellus see the ghost‚ Hamlet tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness". If Horatio
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The tragedy and situation in the play Hamlet’ has been commented on as universal.’ Audiences of many different cultures can enjoy Hamlet’ even though it is set in an alien culture to them. The reasons for this are that many people can relate to the play‚ they feel that they are living though a profound experience‚ even if nothing in the plot of Hamlet has ever happened to them. The experience of Hamlet’ is not restricted to the plot and its characters. <br> <br>A large factor in this universal
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HAMLET On Claudius: “A little more than kin‚ a little less than kind” “Smiling‚ damned villain!” “Keeps wassail” “drains his draughts of Rhenish down” “remorseless‚ treacherous‚ lecherous‚ kindless villain!” “what‚ frighted with false fire!” On Polonius: “these tedious old fools” “i’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room” “you are a fishmonger” “thou wretched rash‚ intruding fool‚ farewell.” On Gertrude/Ophelia/Women: “i shall in my best obey you madam” “Like Niobe‚ all tears” “incestuous
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Key Passage Analysis: Hamlet 2.2.576-617 The Passage: HAMLET Now I am alone. O‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ But in a fiction‚ in a dream of passion‚ 580 Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wanned‚ Tears in his eyes‚ distraction in his aspect‚ A broken voice‚ and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing! 585 For Hecuba! What’s Hecuba
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Hamlet by Phillip Burton Just as every actor is supposed to want to play Hamlet‚ it would seem that every author wants to write about him. He has received more performances in the theatre and more explication on the printed page than any other character of Shakespeare. Theatergoers collect Hamlets as philatelists do stamps‚ and in both cases‚ it would seem‚ the rarer and stranger the specimen the more it is cherished. Since every actor is unique‚ no two performances of any role will be exactly
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The American baseball player and coach John Wooden once said‚ “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen”. In the nonfiction novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand‚ Louis Zamperini demonstrates his cleverness when he pulled himself out of countless life-threatening situations‚ such as devising a plan to capture sharks‚ that would prove to be the end for most others. Louie made the most out of what little resources he had and paid attention to the details that would
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defeat his enemies using his cleverness and with help from allies. The cleverness with which Odysseus deals with the Cyclops and his wife’s suitors helps Odysseus survive so he can eventually return to his homeland. Odysseus’ ability to think on his feet and lie to the Cyclops about the location of his ship‚ his knowledge not kill the Cyclops‚ and his capability to create a story that allows the Cyclops to believe his name was Nohbdy proves that Odysseus uses his cleverness to survive and return to
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