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    Throughout the tragedy of Hamlet‚ Shakespeare writes about Hamlet’s journey of seeking revenge. The play begins with Marcellus and Barnardo taking watch over the Denmark castle one night and running into a ghost in the shape of King Hamlet who recently passed. Along with these two men enters Francisco and Horatio‚ Hamlet’s friends‚ who also witness the appearance of the ghost and decide to inform Hamlet of what they have seen. After explaining to Hamlet what they have seen they advise him to see

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    Shakespearian critics‚ authors‚ readers‚ and play viewers perplexed as Shakespeare fails to answer a number of questions. Some of these questions include: Is Hamlets father in the form of a ghost really trustworthy? Why does Hamlet procrastinate from getting revenge throughout the play? Is Hamlet insane‚ or do his melancholy ways manipulate the play viewer into thinking he’s mad? Is his mother remorseful? Does Hamlet really love Ophelia? What is Hamlet trying to say before he dies? These questions‚ along with

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    Hamlet: Revenge or Scruples? Andrew Brian "’Vengeance is mine‚’ sayith the Lord". What does this mean? I believe what the Christians meant it to mean is that we‚ as humans‚ have no right to seek revenge‚ that only "the Lord" has the right to decide when to take revenge. We say this‚ but do we follow it? No‚ I think not. We all try to take revenge into our own hands‚ in one form or another. Revenge is one strong theme that holds throughout "Hamlet". We see Prince Hamlet try to execute a

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    there are many characters who often have conflicts in their interactions. Sometimes these conflicts take place on a personal level and at other times they occur on a social level. There are many examples of revenge in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Madame Defarge takes revenge on Charles Darnay for the acts of his father and uncle. Madame Defarge¡¦s main reason for trying to have Darnay convicted is because she holds his family responsible for the death of her siblings. When talking

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    Miss Havisham’s Revenge Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice‚ these choices do not only affect us as individuals‚ but everyone around us. In the novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens created the character Miss Havisham to portray the concept of revenge. Miss Havisham was left by her fiance at the altar‚ and from that moment on she devoted her life to make sure others felt her pain. She adopted a young girl named Estella and raised her to break men’s hearts

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    Revenge and madness are two themes of English literature. The two themes are used in two excellent pieces of literature. In “Hamlet” and “Cask of Amontillado”‚ revenge and madness are the common themes. Although both themes are used in the novels‚ the motivation and thought behind the idea of revenge was different. Revenge causes the characters in Hamlet to act aimlessly through indignation and feeling‚ as opposed to through reason. It depends on the guideline of an eye for an eye. This activity

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    All in all‚ the speaker explained the concept of revenge porn and its legal‚ social‚ and academic consequences clearly and persuade the audience to pay much more attention to this topic effectively; however‚ the weaknesses of this speech still exist. First of all‚ although the speaker prepared a very organized PowerPoint‚ the screen size was so small that the audience who seated at the back could not see it clearly. And as I mentioned previously‚ adding those extra chairs also contributed to the

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    The responsibility of revenge on the perpetrator falls to Hamlet‚ since he believes his father was murdered. Hamlet learned the events that unfolded during his father’s murder in the garden from a ghost that claimed to be the spirit of King Hamlet. In both soliloquies‚ his desire and drive to kill Claudius is “prompted to [his] revenge by heaven and hell” (2.2.547). His thoughts of revenge derive from seeing his father’s thought to be spirit in purgatory. The ghost that visited Hamlet may be the

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    he has wrought. “The Cask of Amontillado” has everything in it‚ it has so much irony and symbols and so many different themes. There are three different themes that you can see within “The Cask of Amontillado” and they are betraying‚ gothic‚ and revenge. The first theme of “The Cask of Amontillado” if betrayal. Fortunato feels as though he is friends with Montresor. “My friend” (237)‚ Montresor seas to Fortunato over and over again threw out the whole story. Betrayal is the theme because Fortunato

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    gaining control of the battle. Without the gun disrupting the flow of American troops on the river‚ they were able to land on the Canadian side much faster. Major General Isaac Brock was woken up by the gunshots. He gathered a small force to regain the Heights (an important hill)‚ even though he knew that the British were heavily outnumbered. Unfortunately‚ he was at the front of the charge‚ so he got shot in the chest and was killed.

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