This is evident in Act 1, in which Hamlet's love and passion for his father naturally positions him to be inferior to King Hamlet's apparition. Consequently, these powerful sentiments compel Hamlet to soliloquise that he will "wipe away all trivial fond records...thy commandment all alone shall live...... Act 1, Scene 2 delves further into the complex characterization of Hamlet and the moral dilemma he is governed by, the death of the King and marriage of Gertrude and Claudius. ... His acceptance of death, "The readiness is all" is the climatic point as he is no longer...

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In Act 1 Scene I both Bullingbrook and Mowbray start of their appearance in the court of chivalry by being very and perhaps overly respectful to the king. Bullingbrook pays tribute to the king as a feudal monarch, "my gracious sovereign, my most loving liege," (1:i:21) where as Mowbray seems to think of the king as divine saying, "until the heavens, envying earth's good hap, add an immortal title to your crown" (1:i:23). ... This respect to the king continues for the main speeches of the trial with Mowbray saying, "the fair reverence of your highness curbs me" (1:i:54). But whilst this...

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Shakespeare also uses the supernatural – a sign of ill-fate during the time of Elizabethan era - in the King's ghost to accentuate the disastrous circumstance of Denmark and the "strange eruption to our state" highlighting a break in the chain of being within the court of Denmark in which Claudius himself recognizes and describes Denmark as "the corrupted current of this world.... In Act I, the immoral nature of King Claudius' marriage is shown Hamlets reaction of repulsion "a most wicked speed! ... " Over time Hamlet becomes increasingly mad as he goes...

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The strength of the subject's gaze is reinforced in line 6, where it is said to have a captivating sway over all it looks upon, "gilding the object whereupon it gazeth". ... However, while wealth and money liberate those who possess them, money is also known as "the root of all evil" and brings sorrow as well as joy. Literally, the power of the subject's gaze is to leave objects as if transfigured from base matter into gold; this transformative power recalls the Greek myth of King Midas, who was blessed by the god Dionysus with the gift of turning all he touched i...

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As I once heard, "nothing is constant except change itself" - a phrase that is undeniably indicative of all of Shakespeare's dramas. ... From the very first scene and conversation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the notion of dreams foreshadows the major underlying concept of the play, the suggestion that it is all merely a dream. ... Just as it helps the king and queen's impatience, it is also the healing source that brings about the balance of love among the humans. ... Furthermore, Puck alludes to the play as a dream when he says, "If we shadows have offended, think but this...

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