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    productions of Hamlet Act 1 Scene 4-5 from the ghost’s entry to Hamlet’s reaction: the 2009 version directed by Gregory Doran starring David Tennant and the 1990 version by Glenn Close starring Mel Gibson. The 2009 version scene has a contemporary feel with its use of modern dressing and settings. The 1990 version stays more traditional in its style‚ but lefts out many (more) lines of words and rather focuses on conveying the emotions of the characters. The two main characters‚ ghost and Hamlet‚ take on

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    No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Bronte No coward soul is mine‚ No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere: I see Heavens glories shine‚ And faith shines equal‚ arming me from fear. O God within my breast. Almighty‚ ever-present Deity! Life -- that in me has rest‚ As I -- Undying Life -- have power in Thee! Vain are the thousand creeds That move mens hearts: unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds‚ Or idlest froth amid the boundless main‚ To waken doubt in one Holding so

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    B: Write an essay in which you analyse and comment on Jonathan Franzen’s essay ”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. Part of your essay must focus on how Jonathan Franzen tries to engage a young audience and on the message of the essay. Jonathan Franzen’s speech was given to the college students at Kenyon‚ Ohio‚ USA. The introduction part of the speech is Jonathan Franzen talking about his relationship to his newly purchased phone‚ and how he got rid of his old one. Choosing the subject

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    Psychology Of Hamlet Death is never an easy thing to handle. Imagine losing the person you look up to‚ idolize‚ and has always helped you when you ’ve fallen. After this kind of tragedy‚ it is not easy to move on and act like everything is fine. Now picture what it would feel like to discover it was your own uncle that took that person away; your father‚ his brother. Hamlet expected his family to grieve. He assumed that they would all be as heart broken as he was‚ but they weren ’t. Hamlet ’s expectations

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    Hamlet Timed Writing In Hamlet‚ Gertrude is portrayed to be not as loyal to Hamlet as a mother should be. Hamlet is a scholar and a philosopher‚ searching for life’s most elusive answers. Gertrude is shallow‚ and thinks only about her body and external pleasures. Like a child she wants to be delighted. Gertrude is also a very sexual being‚ and it is her sexuality that turns Hamlet so violently against her. The Ghost gives Hamlet‚ who is already disgusted with his mother for marrying his uncle

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    Hamlets True Intensions In the play Hamlet it is obvious that there is a story about a boy who lost his father‚ but the main climax comes from how he takes his revenge. Hamlet theoretically could have received evidence of his father’s death by different means but did so by revealing his madness to others. Hamlet sees more benefit by pretending he is mad as he can take revenge and there are less suspicions of the killing. Hamlet is only feigning madness at this point of the play for simple and successful

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    and in particular Hamlet and the period of time in which the play was written? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the theme of revenge is central to understanding the values and beliefs in society at the time the play was written. It is the characters‚ and in particular Hamlet that reflect the ideas from different periods of time such as the renaissance and the medieval era. This is shown through one’s ability to take action versus the inability to take action when seeking revenge. Hamlet is a character that

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    Delprøve 1a Besvarelse 1a 1. Rettelse: Having heard the terrible news‚ we realized these things could have happened to anybody. Forklaring: Fejl i verbalbøjning. Sætningen er i pluskvamperfektum/perfektum(?) og indeholder modalverbet ’could’. Modalverber skal altid følges af infinitiv uden ’to’‚ i denne sætning infinitiv af verbet ’to have’‚ og når man danner pluskvamperfektum skal man bruge en form af ’have’ + perfektum participium – her ’happened’. Derfor skal det være ’have happened’

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    yet he is in fact sane. Shakespeare achieves this by using imagery throughout the play. In the beginning of the play‚ Shakespeare demonstrates that in the play Hamlet‚ he plugs in the idea of existentialism quit often in Act 1. He uses existentialism because it conveys a certain image in those scenes. When Hamlet’s father dies Hamlet is convinced that he shouldn’t live without his father. During the first two months of his father’s death he becomes suicidal and thinks to himself that “Oh‚ that

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    Shakespeare’s Hamlet has and intricate plot formed by the characters and themes throughout it. One major idea is Hamlet’s changing sanity‚ which fluctuates through the play as a performance and as a true madness. The other main theme which develops the play is the act of vengeance‚ with the delay and doubt that accompanies it. These themes‚ along with dramatic devices and the characters in the plot‚ add to the textual integrity of the play. There is a duality to the character of Hamlet‚ as his madness

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