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Hamlet: To Be Mad, Or Not To Be Mad?
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... Claudius it has helped him find the real value of human life. In Hamlets "To Be or not to Be" speech he ponders the value of his own life and the value of Claudius life in retrospective to his own life. He wonders does one murder really warrant another person to die? Now If Hamlet was truly crazy he would not of spent all on this careful planning and thought. He would have killed his uncle a few hours after seeing the ghost of his Dad. Hamlet has reasoning enough not just to run out and kill someone.
During Hamlet's debate on what to do about his Fathers death, many other big events happen. First he kills Polonius thinking tha .....
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The Matrix
Number of words: 1061 | Number of pages: 4.... their lives. But humans would never just bow down to their enemies and so the machines had to devise a way to detain the humans so that they could extract that energy. The machines created a computer program called "." In the movie this marvel displays the digital image of a human's mental self along with that of other humans and a mock up of the world as it was at the highest point in human history. While some humans were detained in to be used for energy, other humans were fed intravenously to them. Humans became crops to the machines, they were grown in massive fields and harvested like wheat until they were ripe enough to b .....
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Hamlet: Was Hamlet Insane
Number of words: 696 | Number of pages: 3.... certain characters. These characters would be Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. His “madness” doesn’t come out around Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, the players or the gravediggers. At one point Claudius himself admits that Hamlet’s “actions although strange, do not appear to stem from madness” (internet, Hamlet, pg. 1-2). Polonius also admits that Hamlet’s actions and works have a “method” (internet, Hamlet, pg. 2) to them and they are of logical nature. Hamlet tells his mother that he is not really mad, “but mad in craft” (internet, Hamlet, pg. 2). This suggests t .....
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Hamlet's Soliloquy
Number of words: 1369 | Number of pages: 5.... his revenge “dull” which is a powerful way to describe his feelings. We get another look into the mind of Hamlet when he is talking about his thoughts that have “one part wisdom and ever three parts coward”. The word choice here shows another contradiction between the words “wisdom” and “coward”. A coward is able to have wisdom but if the cowardly aspect takes control than the wisdom is smothered. This is the case with Hamlet. He thinks that he has let his timid nature take over his knowledge of what is right and therefore he is angry with himself for being apprehensive. That is why he tells himself that hi .....
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Has Hamlet Gone Mad?
Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3.... and
consequently, he had to find a way to solve the apparent problems.
In Act 1, Scene 5, Hamlet while talking to his father's ghost was urged
to avenge the foul murder, but to leave his mother out of it as her guilt would
be punishment enough. GHOST: "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. …
Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and
sting her." The ghost of the previous king gave Hamlet the solution that he
needed. The ghost also be-seeched Hamlet to "…Let not the royal bed of Denmark
be a couch for luxury and damned incest…". This showed that Ham-let was
required to not only re .....
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The Chorus Of Antigone
Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2.... chorus Creon begins to see that he is wrong and God is
superior to himself, but it takes a lot to shake his belief that a perfect
society is run by an unrelenting rule. This play also told me a lot about
humans in general, that the they aren't interested in anything but the
fulfillment of their own needs, and that they refuse to see that something may
be more powerful than themselves. This revelation is the major theme of the
play and is very important in Creon's growth as a person.
This play couldn't have existed without a chorus, these singers give too
much to the structure of the play, without them Creon would never ha .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet's Sanity
Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3.... (Harris, p. 129).
Hamlet reveals to his friends and his mother of his plans to
pretend act insane. He tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness,"
and that if Horatio notices any strange behavior from Hamlet, it is because
he is putting on an act. (I, v). Hamlet also tells his mother that he is
not mad, "but mad in craft." (III, iv). In addition to his confessions,
Hamlet's madness only manifests itself when he is in the presence of
certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude,
Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he behaves irrationally. When Hamlet
is around Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, Th .....
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Macbeth Imagery
Number of words: 859 | Number of pages: 4.... talking in the scene just before the murder of Banquo and Macbeth
says "Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of
day begin to droop and drowse, whiles night's black agents to their preys do
rouse" (3. 2. l50-53). This example of darkness imagery is saying that the day
is turning into night, all the good things are going to sleep, and the evil
creatures are coming out . The evil in this previous quotation and the two
before adds to the ominous atmosphere. Since the imagery creates an ominous
atmosphere it would then lead to the second dramatic purpose, to arouse the
emotions of the audience. Dar .....
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The Crucible: Hysteria And Injustice
Number of words: 1630 | Number of pages: 6.... wrong.
II. Plot:
The plot begins with the inciting incident where Rev. Parris finds his
niece Abigail Williams and his daughter Betty along with his slave Tituba doing
some dance in the forest. Right when he finds them, Betty becomes sick and
won't talk or open her eyes, about this time other people's daughters become
sick too. Rumors spread that witch craft is involved in Betty's illness and the
development of the plot begins. Important to the major development of the plot
is the fact that in the forest, Abigail and the others were just playing like
witches. But they were following Abigail because she wanted to try to .....
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Macbeth: Many People Were Involved In The Death Of Duncan
Number of words: 765 | Number of pages: 3.... Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other." (I,vii,l.25-28)
In this speech Macbeth broadcasts his immense ambitions which are the only
reason he is pursuing the witches prediction. Macbeth, upon hearing the witches
speak was startled at their prophecy. Banquo said to him "Good sir, why do you
start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?"(I,iii,l.54-55) Macbeth
was startled because of the implications of the forecast. Macbeth had thought
before about the very thing that he was now being told was his. He was
infatuated with the idea and he lusted after information .....
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