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    White Clouds and Blue Skies Dead Man’s Cell Phone is a fun and quirky play about a shy and timid woman who finds a man dead at a café with his cell phone ringing‚ and she feels compelled to answer it. The Actors Theatre in charlotte did a fantastic job in presenting this story. The actors‚ wardrobe‚ stage setup‚ and props were all very unique and creative. One aspect that really grabbed my attention was the blue sky and clouds background throughout the play. Blue skies and clouds can be connected

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    Hamlet has just fought with Gertrude and Claudius‚ and has decided to stay home‚ as opposed to going to college. Claudius told Hamlet he was not allowed to go‚ and Hamlet decided to stay for his mother. The‚ “O‚ that this too too solid flesh would melt…” soliloquy reveals the first thoughts of death that Hamlet has within the play. Not much has happened‚ but the King and Queen are married‚ and the ghost has been seen. As the first soliloquy‚ this is the first insight into Hamlet’s state of mind that

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    In the soliloquies of Satan and Hamlet‚ there is one common theme‚ they are both questioning themselves about their lives. Satan and Hamlet are both fueled by conflicts to take revenge without giving up. As they look at their problems and think about them they become scared of their problems. In each of their soliloquise they both change their attitudes and views on how to solve their problems. Hamlet and Satan both complain a lot in their soliloquies‚ and blame people for causing the tragic

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    5.31)‚ Hamlet swears to avenge his father’s killing. He then fails to fulfill this promise for the majority of the play‚ even when the guilt of his uncle is undisputable. Yet‚ adhering to his father’s instructions is not so simple for Hamlet‚ who is confronted with an assortment of troubles and is in emotional distress. While he considers it is his filial duty to kill Claudius‚ he realizes that this act conflicts with his ethics. Hamlet expresses his inner struggle in his famous soliloquy: whether

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    In the play Hamlet‚ Shakespeare creates a rich emotional fabric in Hamlet’s first soliloquy. From the first lines of the soliloquy‚ we can find such emotions as depression‚ disillusion‚ anger‚ and even the hatred and disgust for Hamlet’s mother and uncle. The first line in the soliloquy shows us depression: "O! that this too too solid flesh would melt‚/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew" (Shakespeare 42). Hamlet’s depressive spirit is explained by that he is tired of life and wants to die. The reason

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    The soliloquy begins with Hamlet contemplating suicide. He feels that life is worthless and depressed about the “heartache” that living brings. When Hamlet realises that the only reason he has not already killed himself is because the fear of uncertainty‚ his tone shifts to an angrier tone. He complains about the awful people in

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    Hamlet’s 4th soliloquy analyze “To be or not to be” can arguably be Shakespeare’s most recognizable quote in all of his work. Hamlet attempts to reason with himself on whether or not death is the only solution to end all life suffering portrays him as both confused and cowardly. In this monologue‚ Hamlet goes into a tough debate over whether he should end his own suffering by commit suicide‚ or to step it up and revenge for his father. This solilguy also shows the reader on how Hamlet deals with

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    At least once in everybody’s life they have heard the saying “to be or not to be”. Hamlet is where it was born‚ now it is one of the most famous lines in English literature. It is considered a soliloquy‚ which is an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud by a character in a play. Not only does the soliloquy have meaning to our lives but‚ Hamlet’s as well. When Hamlet says “to be or not to be” (line 55 of Act 3‚ scene 1)‚ he has a great amount of contemplation about killing himself going through

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    The first soliloquy provides a contrast between the controlled and artificial dialogue he had exchanged with Claudius in the court. It is situated when King Claudius and Ma’am Queen Gertrude advocate Hamlet in “open court” to discard his feelings of melancholia‚ which they believe has taken over his mind as a result of his father’s death. For them‚ they believe that Hamlet has grieved enough already about his Father’s death. When we read a bit before the soliloquy‚ we notice that‚ that is when King

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