King Hamlet? At the end of the play Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Fortinbras enter the scene with a bunch of dead bodies and one of them is Hamlet. Fortinbras claims that Hamlet would have been a great king‚ but the question is why would Fortinbras make a claim to this statement? There cannot be a strong country without a strong leader‚ and a king is considered a symbol of his land. Claudius‚ despite the bloody way he gained power‚ was the king. Claudius did in fact keep Fortinbras from taking
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first wrote Hamlet there has been discussion about whether or not Hamlets madness is real. Some would say it is not madness that leads Hamlet‚ but the death of his father or his mother marrying his uncle. Throughout the story‚ Hamlets actions of thinking about suicide‚ getting rejected by Ophelia‚ and believing in the ghost can lead the audience to believe that Hamlet has been overtaken by madness. There have been many points in the story that can lead the audience to believe that Hamlet is mad‚ but
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Mr. Filiputti January‚ 16‚ 2012 Hamlet- The classic Tragic Hero “A hero is a man who does what he can.” Romain Rolland What is a tragic hero? Are tragic heroes considered to have better qualities‚ and yet suffer from the many shortcomings of life? I believe that a classic tragic hero is a person that has many excellent qualities for a hero‚ and yet dies due to the mistakes that he makes. As Romain said‚ “A hero is a man who does what he can” and Hamlet is a perfect example on how he had to
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After studying and reviewing the book Hamlet‚ there are many different types of themes that stand out. Subterfuge was one of those themes and it is an important theme with several examples from the book supporting it. Many of these examples are important parts in the book and they all seemed to have something to do with secret plans. Upon reviewing many themes of Hamlet‚ Subterfuge was the theme that stood out the most to be the major theme of Hamlet. One example of the theme subterfuge is Laertes
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Influence of Horatio In Hamlet‚ the character of Horatio shapes Hamlet‚ and essentially the story line‚ more than any other character. Many would perceive Horatio as simply a foil for Hamlet‚ but he is much more. He is Hamlet’s sole confidante and friend in the play. Horatio is a very intelligent and learned man and he enjoys thinking and logic. What Horatio tells Hamlet throughout the play is nearly always exactly what Hamlet needs to hear. He gives Hamlet the stable and rational mind
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet portrays the prince as an undeniably complex character. It is evident from the beginning of the story that he is in the midst of crisis and is struggling with both the death of his beloved father as well as his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle. Throughout the play the prince increasingly goes mad as his world is turned upside down. Hamlet’s obsession with existential questions and passionate nature combine to create a flawed and problematic prince whose downfall is inevitable
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spend their time spying on Hamlet to find out his true disposition. This is dramatic irony since we and Hamlet know something significant while the other characters do not. Polonius‚ the father of Ophelia‚ whom is the lover of Hamlet‚ comes to a conclusion that Hamlet is mad from neglected love. Polonius assumes this as he used Ophelia as a bate for him to trap Hamlet. Also‚ here it seems as Polonius and Claudius are in this together to plan something against Hamlet as Claudius does not want him
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Overpowering Guilt Jealously and guilt are common motives for a course of action. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the murder of the king and Claudius’ prompt rise to the throne are obvious examples of envy. But‚ the play’s illustration of guilt is much more subtle and is revealed through the struggle Claudius experiences with his feelings that result from a repercussion of his actions. Claudius claims that Hamlet is mad‚ even though he does not believe so‚ to cause a diversion from the brutal truth. This idea
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Tragic Hero; Hamlet Tragedy is a literary work dealing with serious and important themes in which a character of importance and status‚ through some personal flaw or error in judgment‚ meets destruction. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to their own destruction. These definitions completely describe Hamlet. The play Hamlet was a tragedy and Hamlet himself was a tragic hero. Throughout the play Hamlet showed many acts to believe he was a tragic
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In The Prince‚ a 16th-century political-science book on how to gain and keep power by Niccolo Machiavelli‚ The idea Machiavelli presents in The Prince‚ that humanity is innately corrupt and self-interested‚ is not a foreign one‚ nor is it completely false. Machiavelli argues many times that a Prince must expect the worse from others if he is to plan around the motivations of the people. This same idea applies to a Prince needing to lie rather than be manipulated by the lies of others. Though believing
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