is a story of one‚ or at most two persons. As a rule‚ they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow‚ undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are‚ to paraphrase Northrop Frye‚[1] not tragic heroines‚ but heroines in a tragedy. All female characters in Shakespeare’s tragedies have one thing in common – they end up dead. It is always an untimely‚ unnatural death. This
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Hamlet Extended Response: “What is established in act 1?” “What is established in act one?” is a broad question which could be approached in a number of ways. Throughout Act one of Hamlet‚ a number of aspects of a revenge tragedy are set up‚ to assist the responders understanding of the play and its plot. Factors such as atmosphere‚ character profiles and personalities‚ values held in the Elizabethan time‚ themes of importance and settings are also explored in this exposition as the play builds
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1. Is Hamlet surprised when the Ghost asks him to revenge his father’s murder? Is he surprised when he learns who the murderer is? 2. Do father and son have the same opinion of Claudius? (Compare 1.2.139-40‚ 152-53 and 1.5.47-52.) Would others in the court‚ not knowing about Claudius’ crime‚ see Claudius as this much below his dead brother? 3. How did Claudius murder Old Hamlet? 4. What does the Ghost tell Hamlet to do about his mother? 5. Read Hamlet’s second soliloquy carefully (1.5.92-113)
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In Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Claudius‚ the new King of Denmark‚ is portrayed as a conniving and manipulative antagonist who will stop at nothing to maintain his unrighteous stature. In the events of solving the death of King Hamlet‚ Claudius does his part in keeping the murderer from being revealed and in many attempts tries his hardest to keep young Hamlet from discovering the truth. Although their relationship‚ for the most part‚ is static‚ both Claudius and Hamlet are dynamic characters. Claudius’
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OBSESSION: REVENGE AS THE THEME OF THE PLAY Shakespeare’s Hamlet has many themes such as Impossibility of Certainty‚ The mystery of Death. But the basic theme would be Revenge. Revenge‚ in Hamlet‚ serves as the driving force of the play. The main character of the play‚ Hamlet‚ is always obsessed with the revenge for his father’s death. This obsession leads to the actions he performs and eventually to his death. Hamlet just wants the revenge to be perfect. He even spares the life of King
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In Hamlet‚ many think of Hamlet as being the main or only tragically flawed character within the play. However‚ in actuality‚ the play contains many other characters that possess varying severities of imperfection‚ some of which put the shortcomings of Hamlet‚ the title character of Hamlet‚ to shame. Despite the tragically flawed nature of Hamlet’s character‚ other characters in the play are clearly more flawed in comparison to Hamlet. As a result of this character’s imperfection‚ many of the characters
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Hamlet‚ Fortinbras and Leartes are all very different people with different lives‚ but as these men interact in the play we learn that there are many circumstances surrounding them that mysteriously connect them. All three of these characters had some reason to avenge some circumstance in their life‚ but they all had a very different way of conquering the object of their hatred. Fortinbras Fortinbras had levied an army to attack and conquer Denmark. Though son of the late King of Norway‚ the
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Act one scene two started off with a speech by Claudius. Most of his speech was discussed in class where the speech was divided up by thought. I thought it was interesting how most of Claudius’s speech was separated to bring out pity and fear into the audience. Like his first thought was about his brother’s death (pity)‚ another thought was about his succession to the throne‚ and his last thought was about Fortinbras‚ the common enemy they all share and how they must be careful around their enemy
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Themes for hamlet (Three major themes in hamlet through Act 1-3) There are a lot more themes in hamlet but there are three major themes. Shakespeare made the first 3 acts of hamlet very good and when you think of themes there are more than three. From 2015 SparkNotes LLC‚ ALL Rights Reserved “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”. But every act has their own theme to
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ACT 2 2.1 1. How much time has passed between Act 1 and Act 2? How do you know? (Keep watching for evidence.) 2. What is Polonius telling Reynaldo to do? What does this tell up about Polonius and his way of thinking and acting? Polonius is directing Reynaldo to question Laertes’ friends to find out what Laertes is up to in France. Reynaldo must accuse Laertes of false offenses‚ not any too consequential‚ in order to find out the truth of his behavior. Reynaldo and Polonius seemed used to the
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