In Hamlet's first soliloquy after the encounter with the ghost early in the play, when the ghost tells him that he must seek revenge, Hamlet quickly acknowledges his duty as a son. ... Hamlet's duty to the monarchy is to protect the King and Hamlet's role in society as a Prince is to show leadership, live an honourable life and ensure stability in the kingdom. ... And after we will both our judgements join In censure of his seeming. ... His revenge however is justified and he asks Horatio to report his "cause to the unsatisfied" so that society accepts Hamlet's act...

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God, the Holy Spirit, the Divine Being, He controls fate before and after death. ... This uncertainty as to what comes after life causes great anguish and despair in the conscious being. ... However, the nescience of what comes after death, "puzzles the will, and makes [Hamlet] bear those ills [he has]"" (3.1.81-82). ... The facade' of an antic temperament, combined with grim thinking of death and morals, lead Hamlet to his existential crisis, and eventually, his psychosis. In conclusion, Hamlet's fear of death is what keeps him from taking his own life. ...

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Whoever takes his life by any means had unjustly takes a life Allah has made sacred. ... The readers were informed that she is a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. ... In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. ... Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet's deepest questions, ending once and for all the problem of trying to determine tru...

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Throughout the play Hamlet, Hamlet only cares about his own misery happening in his life without thinking about the other people's problems and causing them to suffer. ... An example of a life he took was Polonius's. ... Ophelia was self-destructed due to the death of her father, which was caused by Hamlet. ... "(3.1.150) Hamlet has left the audience with uncertainty about how he is feeling about Ophelia. ... Hamlet is angry with her because she has married Claudius after the death of her husband and she didn't show that she cared that her husband has died. ...

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Although contextual values change, the basic human desire to seek answers to the fundamental questions of life has not, causing Shakespeare's play to speak in different ways. ... " after obeying the ghost's command to "...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.... Hamlet's irrational and impulsive behavior coincides with A.P. ... 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. ... This chaos strips away the appearances, established by the ...

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According to the etymology of the word itself, the junction of con with scientia forms conscientia which means a "knowledge with." ... How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. (1.2.129-134) Depressed by his father's death and distraught by his mother's impure remarriage, Hamlet wishes that he could become nothing more than a vapor and simply vanish. ... In Hamlet's famous fourth soliloquy, we see Hamlet's conscience urging him not to end his life and its problems but to endure their trials because of the risks of what happens aft...

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(V, ii, 352-353) Even after his death, Horatio still wants only the best for Hamlet. ... Claudius not only murders his own brother, and Hamlet's father, but he also marries Hamlet's mother Gertrude a very short time after the death of his brother. ... Upon hearing the news of Hamlet's escape, the King's ambition once again compels him to come up with another plan in order to assure the death of Hamlet. ... As with any relationship, Hamlet's rise and fall can be contributed to the people in his life who both care and have a lack of care for him. ... After Hamlet'...

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The appearance of the ghost in the first act changes the fate that has struck Denmark with the sudden death of Old King Hamlet and turns the play into a revenge tragedy. ... Old King Hamlet was a warrior king who risked his life and fought for his country on the battleground. ... Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands which he stood seiz?... He is the one who reveals his fate to Young Hamlet with the order to revenge his death (see I.5.29). ... In the theology of Catholicism, there is a notion that between the stages of death and life after the death exists a purgatory of the soul...

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who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death,"" The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns,""puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? ... He compares death to sleep and thinks of it as the end to suffering, pain, and uncertainty it might bring, "the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to." ... He then decides that the uncertainty of the afterlife, which is closely related to the theme of the diffic...

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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the main character Hamlet vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of Claudius. ... Hamlet's uncertainty causes delays in seeking his revenge, and ultimately fulfilling his destiny throughout the play. ... Hamlet is aware that soon enough, he must murder Claudius for causing the death of his father as well as putting Hamlet through the pain he has been in. ... As the Norwegian Captain leaves to face death in war, Hamlet was lost in thought. ... This trip only lasts until Hamlet discovers that it is meant to end his life. ...

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In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... Eliot is "a feeling which he cannot understand remains to poison life and construct action.... After the Ghost's visit, in a few weeks, Hamlet's indecision led to doubt, and more absolute proof was needed. ... Another negative aspect of Hamlet's personality has to do with misogyny, a hatred of women or womanhood. ... The uncertainty of life in general is personified in Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. ...

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And the reason was none-other-than the remarriage of Gertrude, his mother, to his uncle, Claudius, within a month after King Hamlet's death. ... After awhile, Polonius, the king's chancellor, politely informed Hamlet that "[Polonius will] take my leave with you, " but the bitter prince only replied, "You cannot, sire take from me anything that I will/ not more willingly part with all except my life." ... Hamlet wished to end his own life, but death was "the undiscoverd country, from whose bourn/ No traveler returns." ... Hamlet desired for death in order to be set free of life, but...

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Hamlet was a tragedy by definition, containing definite stages of development, with the expectation of resolution. ... Hamlet considers ending the torture of his life. ... He reaches Hamlets conclusion that life must be preferable to death, and says, -Life in a box is better than no life at all, d expect. ... Yet one idea about death changes from Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ... Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are both preoccupied with the philosophy of language; Hamlet through the many questions and riddles, which reveal the main character's st...

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At the same time, in William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from his play "Hamlet," the main character struggles with whether to live or to take his own life. ... These three literary works share the commonality that they all deal with the issue of death. ... The three poems show different feelings towards death such as Thomas's "fight" against it, Bryant's embracement of it, and Shakespeare's uncertainty. ... In Shakespeare's soliloquy, Hamlet shows his uncertainty for what happens after death when he describes death as "the undiscovered country from w...

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Within Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard uses a play within a play to blur the line that defines reality, and in doing so creates confusion both onstage- with his characters, and offstage- with the audience. ... Death in Hamlet is given significance and value due to Elizabethan society's strong ties to religion. The uncertainty of the afterlife made the death mysterious, but also greatly feared. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, however, since life is seen as purposeless and directionless, death is seen as rather insignificant. The value of life after the Second Worl...

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She is not able to be honest with Hamlet or her father about how she feels or what she wants, and this predicament is what drives her to a mental breakdown. ... Madness is the only viable outcome after years of mental abuse and imprisonment. ... Her father's death allows Ophelia to finally live her life without his constant scrutiny. ... In an expression of both madness and freedom Ophelia sleeps with Hamlet. ... "It is after all, an imposition of high order to ask the viewer to attend to Ophelia's sufferings in a scene where, before, he's always so comfortably kept his eye...

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At the very end, in that last communication between the artists bringing the work to life and the audience, there may still be some interpretation. ... This creates a very simple suspenseful ambience of uncertainty that will hold through to the end of the film. ... The film opens with a funeral for old king Hamlet. ... This could be Zeffirelli's way of suggesting that the queen had a high degree of culpability in the death of old King Hamlet. ... The theme of madness is accentuated once again at the close of the scene with Hamlet's first soliloquy. ...

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This shows how Shakespeare uses the audience's uncertainty to manipulate their response to the play. ... Likewise, when Hamlet kills Claudius in the midst of a murder plot, his desire is to send him to eternal damnation and avenge his father's death. ... 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted ev'n just between twelve and one, ev'n at the turning o' th' tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as ...

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The Shakespearean authorship controversy has continued for over 300 years; yet with a multitude of scholars on both sides their respective research has not made clear the muddy waters of suspicious uncertainty. ... It was not until seven years after his death in 1616 that a huge memorial volume of the First Folio appeared, produced by several of Shakespeare's theatrical associates of all his plays. ... In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the...

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The Waste Landers fear of and depression about life is expressed to a great extent through their disliking and uncertainty of water. ... Despite this, water is still regarded with suspicion; the last line of the second section, "A Game of Chess," says "Good night ladies-, this mimics Lil's friend and they are also the last words spoken by Ophelia, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, before she drowns. ... The death of The Waste Land comes in the section, "Death by Water," and the resurrection in, "What Thunder said." ... After "The Fire Sermon," there is a brief section called "Death by Water...

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I believe Nietzsche means that art can be a source of new values that create a beautiful illusion or joy and celebration which overrides some of the realities of life, like pain, suffering and uncertainty. ... Constable demonstrates his strong sense of aesthetic and beauty, he said There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ... With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of rea...

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