Smith’s Hyper Hamlet Annotated Hamlet with Hypertext Links to Related Lines‚ Plot Summary‚ Themes‚ Motifs & Symbolism & Word-Play‚ Character Analysis‚ Historical Context‚ and Essays Complete Text of Hamlet Annotated with Hypertext Links (This is useful for searching within the play without bumping into my notes‚ which are discreetly linked via hypertext.) Complete Text of Hamlet Annotated with Interleaved Notes and Links Hamlet Plot Summary Hamlet Themes Hamlet Motifs & Symbolism
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King Hamlet? At the end of the play Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Fortinbras enter the scene with a bunch of dead bodies and one of them is Hamlet. Fortinbras claims that Hamlet would have been a great king‚ but the question is why would Fortinbras make a claim to this statement? There cannot be a strong country without a strong leader‚ and a king is considered a symbol of his land. Claudius‚ despite the bloody way he gained power‚ was the king. Claudius did in fact keep Fortinbras from taking
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Scene 1.1 In the beginning of this scene it starts off with Orsino who is Duke of Illyria‚ and he listening to music‚ he then talks about how the music gets him in the mood for love. Right after he is saying how music gets him in the mood‚ he tells the musicians to stop playing and to get lost. Curio who is a gentleman attending to Orsino asks him if he wants to go hunting for deer‚ but Orsino explains to Curio that the thought of killing a deer reminds him of the time he first met Olivia. Valentine
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play‚ Hamlet by William Shakespeare there are multiple foil characters who not only provide a contrast to one another but share some similarities as well. All the foils in this book are foils of none other than the main character‚ Hamlet. The first foil character is Fortinbras‚ although he is not a major character in the play he does play an important role. Like Hamlet‚ Fortinbras’ father has also passed away and his uncle has taken over as the King of his country‚ Norway. However‚ unlike Hamlet he
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Period_______ Romeo and Juliet Notes Act 3 Notes Act III Scene 1 Notes Shakespeare replaces the marriage scene with violence. The hope of marriage of Romeo and Juliet is quickly ruined by fatal violence. Benvolio predicts the brawl (believes the weather has the "mad blood stirring"). He is earnest but ineffectual. Romeo kills Tybalt not out of hatred or revenge‚ but because he was avenging Mercutio’s death. The prince restores order (just like in Act 1 Scene 1). When the prince banishes Romeo
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Hamlets True Intensions In the play Hamlet it is obvious that there is a story about a boy who lost his father‚ but the main climax comes from how he takes his revenge. Hamlet theoretically could have received evidence of his father’s death by different means but did so by revealing his madness to others. Hamlet sees more benefit by pretending he is mad as he can take revenge and there are less suspicions of the killing. Hamlet is only feigning madness at this point of the play for simple and successful
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The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark‚ the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet‚ Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father‚ and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude‚ the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery
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In Act III scene I of ‘Hamlet’ there are numerous yet different types of conflict‚ within characters and the scene itself. These can be viewed via two different sources: external and internal conflict. Examples of conflict can also be shown through other mediums in the language that Shakespeare uses. For example there is imagery relating to the themes of war‚ life versus death and relationships. The idea of external and internal conflict is also dominant‚ Shakespeare using techniques of soliloquys;
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Response to Act 2 The novel Macbeth considers Lady Macbeth as ambitious but ruthless‚ unscrupulous‚ dishonest‚ deceitful‚ manipulative murderess. Although Lady Macbeth did not kill anyone‚ she is accountable for Duncan’s demise. In the novel‚ the hesitant Macbeth is seen as murderous as he is the one doing the killing. However‚ the one pulling the strings was none other but his wife Lady Macbeth. After receiving a letter from Macbeth regarding his promotion of position to thane of Cawdor and detailing
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HAMLET The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark‚ the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet‚ Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father‚ and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude‚ the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare between 1601 and 1603. Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest play and among the
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