Love is one of the most prevailing themes in Hamlet; the characters involved demonstrate a number of intricate emotions as the play progresses. We see Hamlet’s filial love for his mother‚ esoteric love for Ophelia and Hamlet’s platonic companionship with Horatio. However‚ Hamlet’s filial love for his father is foremost which causes conflicting thoughts to overwhelm him once an apparition in his father’s figure returns. The play opens when two guards‚ Marcellus and Barnardo‚ apprise Horatio about
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loose…and I bribed the sexton to pull it away‚ when I’m laid there‚ and slide mine out too. I’ll have it made so‚ and then‚ by the time Linton gets to us‚ he’ll not know which is which” (288). Here we are given a few lines that show just how extreme Heathcliff’s love is. He wants everything of Catherine’s‚ to the point where becoming one with her body. The imagery is powerfully symbolic‚ conjuring up the image of their bodies decomposing‚ becoming one with the dirt around them and finally mixing together
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The poem Annabel Lee death is shown through a few jealous seraphs who are planning on destroying the love. In the poem Incident in a Rose Garden‚ death is shown as a shapeshifter in which most would think to be Death’s true form. In The Raven death is portrayed not as a something that takes but as something that warns and intimidates its prey until they have nothing to live for anymore. This is how death is portrayed in each poem. In Annabel Lee death is portrayed in a way that most wouldn’t think
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How Crooks is presented in Of Mice and Men Our first proper introduction to Crooks is at the beginning of Chapter 4 when Lennie sees Crooks’ light on when looking at his puppy and goes to investigate. This is a very significant point in the novel because it is the first real point of contact that any of the white ranch hands‚ maybe apart from Slim‚ have had a proper conversation with him apart from during work‚ when he is referred to as a “nigger”. This is hinted at when Crooks says to Lennie
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The Laboratory is a poem which is set in the 18th century and is about a jealous woman who thinks her husband is cheating on her so she asks a chemist to make poison so she can kill her lover’s mistress. The main themes throughout this poem are love‚ hate and jealousy which eventually lead to death. Lady Macbeth is a play which was written in the 17th century and is about a deeply ambitious women who lusts for power and status‚ her ambition is shown by immediate determination for Macbeth to be king
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he ignores his families attempt to socialize with him to make him more affable. On the first‚ Scrooge wants only his money as if he were the small boy. Scrooge knew he [Marley]‚ was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I do not know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor‚ his sole administrator‚ his sole assign‚ his sole residuary legatee‚ his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event‚ but
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Hamlet´s relationship to Ophelia By: Ercan Gönan Grillo-Gymnasium English 12 Facharbeit 15.02.2010 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 1. Why I chose this topic 2. Summary of scenes with Hamlet and Ophelia 3. Shakespeare´s puzzles 2. Hamlet´s relationship to Ophelia 1. ACT 3 SCENE 1´s importance in the play 2. How does Hamlet treat Ophelia? 1. Has Hamlet gone mad? 2. How does he talk about sexuality
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F. Scott Fitzgerald said of The Great Gatsby that it ‘contains no important woman character’. How are women presented in The Great Gatsby‚ and how can this be compared with the presentation of women in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men? Initially‚ it appears that the women characters are seen as inferior and are significant only in the relationship to male characters. A distorted view could be shown as both texts are written by male narrators. F.Kerr said that Fitzgerald felt “women are
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different things that attract them to certain women. In “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” William Shakespeare uses two different approaches to describe two opposite women he loves. Even through the poems are very much alike the poems also have very different. Shakespeare starts off with a passionate tone as he describes his love as a “summer’s Day”. He states that she far prettier because a summer’s day is imperfect thing. He describes summer has “Too Hot” and having
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How is Jane Eyre presented as a victim? Described as “humbled” by her “physical inferiority to Eliza‚ John and Georgiana Reed” Outsider – “dispensed from joining the group” “like a Turk” minority group? Not sure Needs to be protected – windows‚ curtains etc physical barrier from the other Conflicted – separates herself whilst longing to belong Pathetic fallacy – mist‚ clouds‚ ceaseless rain Reference to sea-fowl – who dwell on “solitary rocks and promontories” “bad animal”‚ “Madam Mope” – verbally
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