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    In his famous soliloquy‚ Hamlet reasons himself out of committing suicide‚ in which he first acknowledges how a copious amount of complications and predicaments in life can potentially lure an individual into a tempting and appealing idea of death. Throughout his soliloquy‚ Hamlet appears to be in a constant conflict with himself‚ proving his insanity and inability to compile the right suitable decisions. He struggles to figure out whether to commit suicide to avoid this dilemma or to assassinate

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    HAMLET MODULE PREPARATION – CHARACTER ANALYSIS Hamlet -Hamlet is a character of contradictions – he acts on impulse and is accustomed to rash thinking (e.g‚ when he stabs Polonius through the curtains in Gertrude’s chamber thinking it is Claudius spying on the proceedings)‚ yet he is also hesitant and prone to over analysis‚ which arguably delays his vengeance of his father (e.g‚ as quoted by Hamlet‚ he falls prey to “thinking too precisely on the event”‚ and he questions the truthfulness

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    Morally: Since rationalism is based on using our mind to make reasonable judgment‚ I think what has happened about the leaking of information about the NSA program of recording information is morally acceptable. As John Locke’s philosophy about “natural law”‚ which included moral equity and nature freedom‚ citizens have the rights to not be watched. What Snowden did was based on a personal point of view that represented the moral aspects of the culture‚ which is freedom. From this‚ I can understand

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    Is euthanasia morally?

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    made by their family‚ friends‚ or doctor acting "on their behalf". Involuntary euthanasia consists of killing someone who explicitly requests not to be killed. There is generally no support for this practice. Is Euthanasia morally or not morally? In my opinion‚ euthanasia is morally acceptable. This is due to I think that all human have their own rights of individuals in a democracy. All individuals have their own human right to make decision on their life as long as they did not create damage to other

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    live) in a biologically unnatural way‚ though a medical procedure. This procedure‚ an abortion‚ is then not morally permissible as it interrupts and halts the process that had already started‚ the life of a embryo/fetus‚ a future baby. There are many arguments supporters of abortion present to argue that a fetus is not a person and therefore its termination is not morally wrong but morally permissible. Some say that personhood(which they define with various criteria‚ can hold rights and begins when

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    Shakespearean play Hamlet‚ it must first be broken down to make clear the genius behind it. Hamlet is regarded by most as one of the world’s finest pieces of literature‚ and for good reason. Overall‚ the play is about a young man named Hamlet whose father is murdered by his uncle‚ who then goes on to marry his mother‚ the queen of Denmark. The ghost of Hamlet’s dead father and former king of Denmark‚ appears to Hamlet and bestows on him the responsibility of getting revenge. By the end Hamlet does succeed

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    Key moments- Act 3 Scene 1 - Hamlet’s turmoil
Claudius and Polonius eavesdrop when Hamlet meets Ophelia. Hamlet speaks the famous soliloquy (’To be or not to be’) and rejects Ophelia‚ whom he had previously professed love to‚ believing that she is in league with his uncle and Polonius.
Hamlet Get thee to a nunnery‚ go‚ farewell. Or if thou needs must marry‚ marry a fool‚ for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. Act 3 Scene 3 - Claudius’s plotting
Claudius arranges Hamlet’s

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    Unfortunately‚ Hamlet and Laertes’ both lose their father’s unexpectedly throughout the play. However‚ both men have opposite responses to the situations. Hamlet learns from the appearing ghost about his father’s murder. He shuts himself down for months and goes into a long period of mourning and weeping. Claudius even tells Hamlet that he’s been mourning this death for so long he’s beginning to question the prince’s masculinity. It was clear Hamlet was suicidal after his father’s death; his inner

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    Major Themes in Hamlet The Mystery of Death In the aftermath of his father’s murder‚ Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death‚ and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. He ponders both the spiritual aftermath of death‚ embodied in the ghost‚ and the physical remainders of the dead‚ such as by Yorick’s skull and the decaying corpses in the cemetery. Throughout‚ the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality‚ truth‚ and uncertainty in that

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    Shakespeare’s Hamlet Shakespeare’s Elizabethan revenge tragedy demonstrates the composer’s ability to address and explore the universalities of human existence. Hence‚ though the Senecan tragedy‚ Shakespeare illustrates Hamlet’s tension between duty and resistance through introspection towards his father’s prescribed revenge‚ which becomes central in allowing Shakespeare to encapsulate the fragmentation of the human experience due to internal and external influences. The oscillation of Hamlet between

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