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  • Love Letter Written To Ophelia By Hamlet
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    In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the character of Ophelia is masqueraded as a demure, innocent, adolescent girl. However, the behavior disguised by this faade is much more interesting than we are led to believe. Throughout Hamlet, Ophelia is the target of numerous sexual innuendoes and later the confessor of her own sexual experience. When these occurrences become apparent, Ophelia no longer holds the virginal qualities we were once led to believe she possessed. Ophelia is first portrayed as an ...
  • Depression As Hamlet
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    To be or Not to be 'To be or not to be, that is the question. ' ; Hamlet is eager to escape a life of calamity and disaster. He sees his life as a terrible burden, something he yearns to escape. The problem, however, is that death brings one into territory uncharted by tse still alive. It is not death that he fears for he perceives death as a release; the problem is death through suicide. Hamlet makes a philosophical approach to the question of whether or not it is nobler to endure life's hardsh...
  • Hamlet's Feelings Of Woe And Uncertainty
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    Hamlet What is mans' purpose in life Is there a purpose If there isn't, then is it wise to end it, despite the fact that there might be nothing better In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet struggles with these and other issues. He states that the question of life is "To be, or not to be... ". Is existence really worth the troubles of life In this monologue, Hamlet is wondering what is his purpose. He asserts that the only reason people endure their horrible lives is the uncertainty of what l...
  • Wider Philosophical Question Of Man's Essence
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    The major question in 'To be or not to be' cannot be suicide. If it were, as many have noted, it would be dramatically irrelevant. Hamlet is no longer sunk in the depths of melancholy, as he was in his first soliloquy. He has been roused to action and has just discovered how to test the Ghost's words. When we last saw him, only five minutes before, he was anticipating the night's performance, and in only a few moments we shall see him eagerly instructing the players and excitedly telling Horatio...
  • Hamlet's Admiration For Fortinbras Action
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    In the first section of the passage, Hamlet is filled with self-loathing. His feelings of worthlessness are made quite apparent as he questions himself with statements like "What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more". This metaphor clearly shows how unworthy Hamlet feels about the fact that he has been lying around doing nothing and his father remains unavenged. His use of unpleasant imagery like "bestial oblivion" and "fast" also contribut...
  • Hamlet's Debate Of Life Versus Death
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    Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be, that is the question", found in Act 3, Scene 1, of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, is one of the most recognized and famous soliloquies in all of English literature. Hamlet uses this moment alone to ponder what he will do in response to his father's death. In this statement, Hamlet explores the idea of living and dying and what can be found in death. Is death like a dream while one sleeps? Or do we cease to sleep? Or is it just nothing? These are quest...
  • New King And Hamlets Mother
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    In Shakespeares Hamlet, there is a murder, and it doesnt say straight out who the murder is. There are no detectives on the case. No one within in the state is really questioning the murder of the King except for his son. It may not have all the customary qualities of detective story, but it does come across as a detective story in which Hamlet seeks to solve the mysterious death and to revenge for his father. In an ordinary, mundane, average crime the detectives try to figure out who the perpet...
  • Ros And Guild And Hamlet
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    EXPLORE THE WAYS IN WHICH STOPPARD HAS APPROPRIATED HAMLET. EXPLAIN USING CONTEXT AND VALUES. MAKE REFERENCES TO PRODUCTION YOU HAVE SEEN. Stoppard has appropriated Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' to explore the fundamental questions that face humanity - questions of life, death, identity, illusion and reality, and the purpose behind life. However, the perspective of each of the plays is different on these themes, and is reflective of the times in which the playwrights lived, and the societal value syste...
  • King And The Queen
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    What is Hamlet's flaw? Nor to any one is he known to have defect. No one ever ventures to speak of him slightingly or critically. Why does not the King, Laertes, or Fortinbras despise him for a scholar and a dreamer, at least, instead of taking him as they all do for the worthy son of his warrior sire? Why does not the Queen once sigh, or Horatio sadly shake his head? He is a courtier, soldier, scholar, the expectancy and rose of the fair state, cries Ophelia, and there is no suggestion that she...

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