The Ophelia project states that 60 percent of people say that cyber bullying has affected them not only on the computer, but at home, at school, and when they are with friends. Cyber bullies should be prosecuted for statements made on social media for various reasons. First, cyber bullying can be very harmful because it can grow to large groups. Second, cyber bullying can lead to self and or mental harm. Even though some people think that the First Amendment protects the right to free speech, individuals
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Jensen 5 Ritchie Jensen Mrs. D. Romberg Literary Studies 23 April 2008 Major Essay #4 Revenge causes the characters in Hamlet to act blindly through anger and emotion, rather than through reason. It is based on the Old Testament principle of an eye for an eye; this action is not always the best means to an end. Fortinbras, Laertes, and Hamlet were all looking to avenge the deaths of their fathers. They all acted on emotion driven by the want for revenge for their father's deaths
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craziness, and sure enough there is. The question always remain whether Hamlet is crazy or not, but there is no denying Ophelias madness. Both of them have tragic events occur in their lives. Ophelia is asked to stay away from Hamlet from her father; she then gets rejected by Hamlet, tricked into giving up her virginity, and worse of all her father is killed by her ex lover. Ophelia starts singing about her father's death, Hamlets trickery and all the tricks of this world. To be singing after the death
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cyber sphere. This is the value of today’s students in America; the numbers that represent them. However, there are key principles taught by David McCullough in his address “Love of Learning,” and Thomas G. Plummer’s “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” that have given new insight into addressing the errors in our educational system that so many today are lamenting, yet are misdiagnosing, and treating with snake oil. These two men have been on both the learner and the teacher side of life
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Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to watch over him and to discover the cause of his madness. While on the other hand the arrogant Lord Chamberlain, Polonius suggests that Hamlet may have become mad in love for his daughter Ophelia. However, Hamlet insults Ophelia telling her that he does not love her and that it would be for the best if she enters a nunnery. Hamlet assures his mother that he is “not in madness, but in craft” (3.4.190 Shakespeare) meaning that is playing to
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protagonist Hamlet shows a negative view towards the women in his life. He considers the fact that his mother, Gertrude, remarried so quickly after his father’s death an act of betrayal towards himself and his father. Hamlet also feels betrayed by Ophelia following her father authority by agreeing to stay away from Hamlet despite admitting of her love. Hamlet perceives both these women as fragile and too reliant on the men in their lives, he expresses this in Act 1 Scene 2 of the play, “Frailty, thy
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know the truth that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father.Dramatic irony occurs because only the readers and his friends Marcellus and Horatio know that Hamlet is only pretending to be mad.Ophelia and Polonious thinks that Hamlet is mad in love with Ophelia but only we and his friends know that Hamlet is only pretending to be mad. | Hamlet, Ghost and Claudius | Sympathy with Hamlet and his father.Antipathy with Claudius | Claudius killed the father of Hamlet. And no one knew the reality.Antipathy
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chance play a vital role in promoting the development of the story and illustrating the ideas of slavery. For example, because Miss Ophelia and St Clare have their different background, one lives in the South and one live in North, they would have different ideas about slavery which could only be seen by small details. “‘I’ll go and see to his putting them in’ said Miss Ophelia … ‘My ear Miss Vermont, positively you mustn’t come the Green Mountains over us that way. You must adopt at least a piece of Southern
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the play and the relationships between Hamlet and the two people who have been closest to him; being Ophelia and the ghost. Hamlet cannot share his strong feelings and emotions with his mother or his girlfriend and while his mother is literally sleeping with the enemy, Ophelia has chosen the side of Claudius because of her father Polonius. It is especially difficult for Hamlet to talk to Ophelia. The only other woman in his life, Gertrude, has betrayed his father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may
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and goes off on Ophelia. 3. Hamlet treats ophellia very poorly in Scene 1 because she returns all of the gifts he gave her, saying that they don’t mean anything when the person that gave them to her has changed. He then proceeds to tell Ophelia that He never loved her, and that she should go to a nunnery to protect herself/chastity because like her father, her family is full of liars and sinners. Hamlet’s view of women in this scene is very low, because of the fact that Ophelia has left him,
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