attacks Ophelia, who has allied herself with Claudius, with words: "are you honest" (III.i.104), "are you fair" (III.i.106). Hamlet "speak[s] daggers" (III.ii.387) to Gertrude, because she is an obstacle to Hamlet. Also, Hamlet slays Polonius so violently that Hamlet guarantees that Polonius is "dead, for a ducat, dead" (III.iv.25). Hamlet gravely harms both Ophelia and Gertrude with his words of insanity, while sending Polonius to the grave with his actions of insanity. All three people, Ophelia, Gertrude
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In this interesting play, Hamlet, by Shakespeare, I've learned of the tragic events Prince Hamlet has dealt with. Starting from mourning his fathers death, King Hamlet, and than shortly after that his mother, Queen Gertude marries his uncle, Claudius. The play starts out introducing us to the watchmen, Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo. There is a ghost on the platform of the castle that reappears around the same time every night. Other than horrify the men the spirit does not speak to them. The play
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Hamlet’s thoughts to express character traits in the form of soliloquies. At the end of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy, he states “The fair Ophelia!—Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.” Which is stating for Ophelia, the one he loves to pray for him. When Hamlet says this, it shows that Hamlet is truly passionate about Ophelia and really loves her. Hamlet’s actions also show a lot of his character traits. In Act III scene IV, Hamlet is talking to the queen when he finds out
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and he couldn’t believe that Claudius had killed his father so he could become King of Denmark and marry his mother and take her as Queen. Another possible reason for Hamlet’s madness was his love for Ophelia. Although, in the story, it’s said that his madness comes from the rejection from Ophelia, I did not see it. I thought his madness resulted from the appearance of the ghost of his father. His father’s death left him devastated and the fact that his mother married his uncle right away left him
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One may notice that throughout act three of Hamlet, there seems to be an angrier Hamlet. He tells Ophelia to go a nunnery. He scares his mother by the way he speaks to her. He almost kills Claudius, and after that, he kills Polonius when he mistook him for Claudius. And as one can imagine Hamlet is still accused of being mad or insane. At one point, Claudius actually seems to be convicted of his murderous sin, and he decides to pray. Hamlet walks in as Claudius is praying; yet Hamlet is not seen
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uses imagery of decay and disease and the emotional and moral decay of his characters to enhance the atmosphere of the play and create a sense of impending doom. For example, in Act I, Laertes uses the analogy of plant disease to convince his sister Ophelia to preserve her virginity: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. (I, iii, 43-46) Furthermore, Hamlet’s description
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Lynn Crain McFall Eng 201 July 15, 2011 Slavery and Racism Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the mid-1800s. Stowe was well educated and was raised in strong Christian and Calvinist beliefs (Weinstein). Her writing of this novel reflects things she was witness to as well as things she was told. Stowe opposed slavery and racism (Novels). These became major themes in her novel. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Stowe has two main plots going through the novel. The first plot Uncle Tom’s
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Shakespeare's Hamlet has many things he uses as distractions. Like Ophelia she is there to shift the fact that hamlet is going crazy for want of power. She is his “love interest” and he puts her in weird situation to make himself not look too crazy. He also uses the play to distract them. He is mad at his uncle for killing his father, marrying his mother, and taking all the power of the kingdom that belonged to him. Since Ophelia is Hamlet's love interest she is put on the spot. She is told by her
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not kill Claudius but instead it was Polonius. Time had gone by and supposedly Hamlet was getting worse, so Claudius decided to send Hamlet to an asylum in England. Hamlet escaped and returned to Denmark and hid. While Hamlet was away, Ophelia, Hamlet's girlfriend, was acting strangely. She went insane because of her father's death. As Hamlet was hiding in the graveyard, a
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Management Information Systems Short Paper 2 CONTRASTING NOTES: Imagery Through Statements in Ophelia A. Dimalanta’s “Contrapuntal” “..I love you..” – One of the most often used phrases ever, it never fails to get people’s hearts going, especially with Valentine’s Day this week. But what is love exactly? We could look it up in the dictionary, but it will only give us the bare definition. Ophelia Dimalanta gives us a sensory definition through her poem “Contrapuntal”, using statements that lead
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