Hamlet out of Love
When Hamlet arrives home from school, he finds his father dead and his mother remarried to his uncle. Hamlet caustically remarks that “the funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” (1.2.87-88) to express his displeasure with his mother’s hasty re-marriage: Hamlet loved his father and believed his mother had as well. He expected there to be a longer period of grieving and was disappointed not to find one. A sense of his mother’s own fickleness and infidelity leads Hamlet to reject romantic… Continue Reading...
Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Why Does Death Prevail
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark begins and ends with death. The play begins with the ghost of Hamlet's dead father, haunting the battlements and urging his son to avenge his foul murder; the play ends with the death of Hamlet himself. The play also famously is driven by a quest for death, namely the desire of Hamlet to avenge his father's murder. But much as Hamlet burns in hatred for his uncle, the play also shows acute consciousness… Continue Reading...
Hamlet's Insanity
Hamlet's sanity has been questioned by critics of the play for centuries: is the Dane merely acting in order to fool the spies following him around the castle? -- or does he actually lose his mind? Part of the difficulty is that both seem possible (Davis 629). The other part is that critics tend to think it an either/or proposition -- as in, either Hamlet is acting or Hamlet is insane. The play, however, provides all the evidence one needs to assert that Hamlet is indeed acting insane… Continue Reading...
in Act 5, scene 1, of Hamlet so as to make room for the dead Ophelia. Hamlet grieves for himself and for the passing of time as well as for Yorick: "Alas, porr Yorick! I knew him, Horatio!" (Shakespeare, 5:1). The name Yorick brings up such a flood of emotions and memories and ideas that in naming his clergyman after Shakespeare's dead court jester, Sterne is utilizing the ironic juxtaposition presented by the name to provide the reader with both humor (satire) and gravitas. This orientation is even commented upon by Yorick himself when in Paris… Continue Reading...
the world and in fact all creation. Yet as Shakespeare's Hamlet reminded readers, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (Shakespeare 1.5.167-168). Part of this interest in the Gothic was inspired by tales from the Orient, which serves as the subject of Beckford's "Vathek." Another part of this interest was a reaction to the Puritanism of the times: the Gothic genre represented the mystery of iniquity and sin that lurked just below the surface of people and events, simultaneously attracting and repulsing them -- urging them to look and yet… Continue Reading...
of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and Macbeth (Fernandez, 2016). His works captured the entire spectrum of human emotion – love, romance, beauty, reconciliation, forgiveness, betrayal, tragedy, politics, and so forth. For example, most of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, especially Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard II, depicted the destruction associated with corrupt rulers. Further, In Hamlet, Shakespeare portrays human temperament, betrayal, revenge, and moral collapse.
As a playwright, Shakespeare has a reputation for a distinctive style of writing. He is well known for his outstanding utilisation of metaphors, lyrical techniques, rhetorical devices, and reflective soliloquies… Continue Reading...
called Icon.
Icon produced dramas such as Immortal Beloved (1994) and Anna Karenina (1997). Gibson himself starred in Icon dramas like Hamlet (1990), directed by Fraco Zeffirelli. However, Gibson continued also to star in “poorly received” films throughout the 1990s (“Mel Gibson”). It was not until he directed and acted in Braveheart in 1995 that Gibson received serious attention from the Academy. Braveheart was unique in that it combined the epic historical drama genre with the action tropes audiences found familiar. Gibson continued to hone in on similar themes and stories with his productions like Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge, all of which are based on historical narratives.… Continue Reading...
Hamlet), the application of the death penalty as a deterrent cannot be justified simply because the law itself is ineptly executed and justice is unfairly served. In order for capital punishment to deter, law and order must already exist. In a society where neither can be said to exist, capital punishment serves no purpose other than to excuse a system of tyranny in a social system that has abandoned the need for moral justifications.
The law itself must be in accordance with morality or moral law. If it is judged… Continue Reading...
