Category: Hamlet

In a way, evil is like a contagious disease. It can be held inside of one person until it has infected someone else. With that being said, it continues to do so until the carrier of the evil dies without passing it to another person. Human nature plays a huge role throughout the play, Hamlet.…

Knowledge is power. Imagine living in poverty and not understanding or knowing that you need help. Mental Illness can include addiction, depression, schizophrenia, and more. Having mental health problems can be tricky, sometimes it can be hard to spot the symptoms, which is why having the knowledge and resources can be very helpful to those…

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? (Hamilton). You and I, we both cry, we both bleed, and we will both die. One critical lens that sparked my interest the most while reading William Shakespeares Hamlet was the postcolonial lens, especially because of the plays parallelization with Lin-Manuel Mirandas Hamilton. This lens is relevant…

Ophelia and Gertrude are the only two female characters in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, Gertrude is the mother of protagonist Hamlet, and Ophelia is the love interest of Hamlet. In many ways, Ophelia is similar to Gertrude. They seem to be the same person at different stages of their lives.…

Shakespeare employs language to explore characters in Hamlet. Hamlet himself uses language as a means of defence, taking refuge within words, delaying action, manipulating his opinion of others and ultimately concealing his own identity. Perhaps more so than any other character in the play, Hamlet is aware of his skill with words and uses rhetorical…

Hamlet is a play exploring the life of a prince after the murder of his father and his quest for revenge. Yet through this, we see the main character Hamlet struggles emotionally with melancholy and what many people assume to be his descent into madness. Robert Burton argues that there are two types of melancholiacs…

Death becomes a frequent and almost normal event throughout Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The story follows Hamlet, a young man mourning his fathers demise, who comes to know the culprit behind his fathers death and must seek vengeance for his father. So, Hamlet seeks revenge and he completes the task, the burden placed upon his…

There were times when Hamlet would give out a piece of advice to one of the actors of the play on how to read the lines when in honesty if he would have taken and listened to his own advice he could have avoided running into multiple problems. That showed that he is not very…

Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, is a play ruled by Hamlets conscience. It is his values, attitudes and beliefs that drive the plot and contribute to the understanding of the social, cultural and historical context of Shakespeares time. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in response to Elizabethan culture and life to compare the ideas of the era…

Identity is a fickle thing it could lead you in a straight path through life or lead you to your death. Shakespeare creates doubt in both his play Hamlet and the character Hamlet in regard to identity through a form of self-referentiality. Shakespeare, the author himself, struggles with his identity that ultimately affects the identity…