Shakespeare’s Hamlet revolves around Hamlet’s inaction and subsequent action. Explore the causes and results of these two elements. Shakespeare’s Hamlet focuses on man’s action and subsequent inaction resulting from the situations and circumstances life presents. The characters and the plays events significantly impact the protagonist constantly pushing Hamlet towards vengeance. Hamlet’s oscillation between action and inaction are a direct result of the characters sense of obligation and convenience
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This extract has taken place in Act III‚ Scene I and occurs in a public place of the town. Benvolio‚ Mercutio‚ Tybalt and Romeo are having an argument‚ which turns in to a sword fight‚ Tybalt kills Mercutio and for that Romeo kills Tybalt. At the point in time where Romeo kills Tybalt they are actually cousins by marriage although Romeo and the audience the only ones aware of this‚ creating dramatic irony. Mercutio’s death is the climax and turning point for the play and is the beginning of the tragic
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SCENE 1: Setting: school Scarlett and her bf break-up‚ her grades are slipping‚ and she has some family issues. Part I: Lena: Hey Ryan!! Isha: Hey‚ Scarlett I have to tell you something ..Well I don’t think things between us are all too great... Lena: What? You’re breaking up with me? NOW of all times? You know how hard it is at home and how stressed I am over school…and I... Isha: It’s just not working. It’s for the better. Part 2: Scarlett is at a party and drinking from a cup of water
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In The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark Shakespeare uses personification‚ allusion‚ and a rhetorical question to advocate that the climatic moment of Act III is when King Claudius admits to the murder of King Hamlet because‚ by definition‚ it is the act that turns the action of the scene around‚ leading toward an inevitable conclusion. Shakespeare uses personification when King Claudius says that “[his] offense is rank‚ it smells to heaven” (line 36). Claudius’ guilt of killing his very own brother
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Hamlet Act three Hamlet‚ Act three reveals the true personalities of the characters. Hamlet is impulsive and vengeful‚ which we see when he kills Polonius and insults his mother for marrying her deceased husband’s brother. Hamlet is upset about Ophelia’s rejection of him and about his father’s murder. As a result‚ he takes his anger out on both his mother and Ophelia. He acts as though he never loved Ophelia and he calls women “two faced” and “untrustworthy”. Hamlet speaks honestly to his mother
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show conflict‚ violence and build tension in act 1 scene 1 and act 3 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet believed to be a play which uncloaks the true emotion of love. A play which portrays the tragedies‚ tensions and disagreements that arise between the families of two lovers‚ and how platonic love can be mitigated with loathsome feelings resulting in death. Is it fair for a feeling like love‚ so pure to result in death? Before act 1 scene 1 starts‚ the opening lines of the prologue are
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modern audiences‚ themes of young love fated by disapproval and fate still occurs today. In the prologue‚ the Chorus comes forward to command the audience’s attention saying: "Two households‚ both alike in dignity‚ in fair Verona‚ where we lay our scene‚ from ancient grudge break to new mutiny‚ where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" this immediately gives the audience a theme that something bad was going to happen‚ Citizens of a town ought to be civil and therefore ought to show respect for
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using a variety of techniques‚ symbols‚ themes and a script that brings the theme to the audience. Love is a theme that will always be relevant. Act 1 scene 1 shows love’s difficulty as a theme well‚ using techniques and symbols to convey it. In this part of the play‚ Lysander states to Hermia: “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.i. 134)‚ which emphasises that love is never easy and sacrifices must be made. Hermia’s father is against Hermia getting married to Lysander‚ furthermore
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I believe Hamlet isn’t pretending and is actually going mad because •He acted very strange infront of Ophelia and it genuinely scared her‚ and because she loves him and knows him sos well she knows something is really wrong. "Lord Hamlet‚ with his doublet all unbraced;/ No hat upon his head‚ his stockings foul’d‚/ Ungarter’d‚ and down-gyved to his ankle;/Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other‚/And with a look so piteous in purport/As if he had been loosed out of hell/To speak of horrors
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Why Hamlet Cannot Act After reading Shakespeare ’s Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark‚ one comes to the conclusion that Prince Hamlet is defined by his indecision. This indecision has a dire consequence‚ namely the inability to act‚ which ultimately leads to his death and the deaths of most of the other characters by the play’s end‚ thus becoming Prince Hamlet’s tragic flaw. Due to his tendency to over think‚ over analyze‚ procrastinate‚ and stagnate in deliberation‚ the majority of the play focuses not
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