... . Hamlet can't decide what to do, and many things have fallen apart because of the poisoning act on the part of Claudius. At this time Hamlet starts acting mad, likely as a result of the tumultuous events occurring around him. While Hamlet is mad, he kills his love interest Ophelia's father, Polonius. ... one has the ghost telling Hamlet how he died, and how it was from poison poured into his ear which spread throughout his body causing a scab to form over his body. He also gives Hamlet the idea for revenge against Claudius. Again, disease relates to this particular scene, as well as th...

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... Frankenstein. Early on in the book, Victor gets interested in the science of anatomy and wonders where life comes from. He goes on to collect body pieces and then creates a monster from them. The monster does not look beautiful, but rather scary and unattractive. A common behavior in society is ... getting them scared. He gets so lonely that he gets mad at Victor for even creating him (139). The monster decides to fight back and starts murdering all of Victor's close relatives and friends, eventually, leaving Victor to feel lonely, just like he did. Since both Hamlet and the monster ......

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... question next, say "a grave- / maker": the houses he makes lasts till doomsday" (5.1.56-59). After this point, Shakespeare has pretty much equaled out the negative with a positive. Still lightheartedly, he starts to move the play to a different mood. While the "gravediggers" working and chatting in a carefree manner, Hamlet and Horatio are eavesdropping on them. As "Clown 2" exits, "Clown 1" remains singing. Hamlet ... this fellow no feeling of his business? / "a sings in grave-making" (5.1.65-66). The reader has probably already thought about how the men could be talking so cheerily ov...

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... beginning of the play Hamlet seems logical and quick, but this soon fades after Hamlet has his first visitation with the ghost of his father. Hamlet then doubts himself and starts to believe that his eyes have deceived him. After this, Hamlet seems to lose touch with his true self and succumb to his darker side. Over all, we are able ... speech in act one, scene four, line 13. He begins his speech quite normally, replying with a simple answer to Horatio's inquiry but then his thoughts begin to wander and he starts to analyze and philosophize about topics unrelated to Horatio's question....

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... i. Balthazar and Lorenzo murder Horatio ii. Hieronimo's wife commits suicide iii. Lorenzo kills his accomplices iv. Hieronimo stabs Lorenzo, v. Bel-Imperia stabs Balthazar and herself.   vi. Hieronimo drags out the body of his dead son and briefly unfolds the tale.   When pressed for further details, he bites off his tongue.   vii. Hieronimo then stabs Lorenzo's innocent father with a penknife and commits ... suicide 2. Internal destruction iii. Both 1. Both are manifestation of the madness driven by the need to escape from the reality of the situation (i.e. the murder of their son) ...

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... his ear while he lay asleep. The ghost then instructs Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (1.5.25). This is the point in the play when Hamlet first starts thinking about carrying out the revenge. After much thought and debate Hamlet devised a plan to tell if his uncle actually did murder his father or if"...It is a damned ghost ... to be poisoned. The swords in turn were switched and Hamlet ended up with the poisoned sword meant to end his own life. Hamlet stabbed Laertes sending poison throughout his body but not before Laertes was able to stab Hamlet with the same ...

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... while he was talking to his mother in her room after the play. Hamlet heard something from behind the curtain and having so much rage built up inside him brutally starts stabbing Polonius, who he thinks at the time is Claudius, in hopes of avenging his father's death, to death. Then when Laertes hears the news about his father's death he ... father's death and at the same time Claudius can save his own. He has Laertes sword fight with Hamlet but on Laertes sword is poison that if injected into the body will cause immediate death. The two men then begin to sword fight. Hamlet is winning ...

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... more than his conscious, her ramblings of lovers past such as "He is dead and gone" develop into lyrical daggers that penetrate his already damned sole (IV.5.30). Hamlet's life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it takes a turn for the worse when the unimaginable befalls here tortured sole and she commits suicide in the river ... harvested from the grave, "Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now - (V.1.100-101). When Hamlet is in the graveyard the orders that Ophelia's body must be "maimed" because she took her own life, and that i...

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... him. Becoming aware of the orders shipping him to England, Prince Hamlet senses a trap. ACT4. Men are sent to lay Polonius' corpse in the chapel they question Hamlet about the body's whereabouts, but he only answers in riddles. Claudius orders Hamlet prepared immediately for departure to England. In secret letters written to the English King, there are instructions to murder Hamlet ... Ophelia is the one being buried. At the burial Laertes jumps into the open grave to embrace his poor sister one final time and Hamlet leaps in after him and starts a fight. King Claudius calms Laertes' ra...

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... and a brave man, even said to be by many critics some sought of "tragic hero". Gertrude on the other hand is somewhat shallow and tends to think only about her body, her position and external pleasures. Why else would she remarry so quickly after her husband's death; and to his brother! Because she longs to retain her position. Back in the ... 's present state of realisation through madness, which drives her down into such a state where none could save her. Because her love has been rejected, due to her father's doings, she starts to self-destruct, a process which was sped up by the deat...

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... this idea by saying that: What Shakespeare gives us is not a slob or a shirker or a mother -fixated neurotic, but a man of action- the man to whom everyone turns at the starts of the play when there is a crisis, the man who can board a pirate ship, the man who has few scruples about killing those he sees as threatening him. He is ... concerned with perfecting his role on a very tricky and untrustworthy stage. (40) This shows that O"Toole's thinks that hamlet takes control of his actions and he does not need no body to tell him what to do or what to say, instead he could sometimes contro...

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