... after Laertes takes his leave to France, Polonius warns Ophelia against Hamlet's amorous intentions with her. Polonius orders his daughter not to believe in Hamlet's "love-talk." He criticizes Ophelia, scorning: "Affection? Puh! You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders ... in her way of her intimate relationships. Due to the men's double-teaming, Ophelia is torn between staying loyal to her father and the love she feels for Hamlet. Ophelia does not always acknowledge that the men surrounding her hold all the power in society and abuse...

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• Grade Level: High School

... life by Jesus. He feels that it will take a miracle to make him feel young again. Prufrock sees his age as the end of his romantic zeal. These dilemmas are devastating to him; they haunt him and overwhelm him.. He strives to achieve something that is impossible for him to attain. ... He imagines the peaceful world under the sea .This shows the internal conflict still occurring within him. Even though he has overcome his problem with his love life, he still has many other worries to contend with. The mermaids are singing beautifully, but in his opinion, they cannot possibly be singing fo...

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... , and could find in the world before him only a dull blank with nothing left remarkable in it; whoever has known "the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes;" he who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness ... any decisions at all. It seems that Hamlet at times, makes no decisions and instead projects the image of an indecisive, inactive and passive individual, a romantic incapable of action who is in some ways sniveling and pathetic; he is nothing but a compulsive talker taking pleasure in his own words. He is ... ...

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... action plan. Unlike Zeffirelli's version, Branagh's version possessed flaws in his direction. This was evident when Ophelia came to talk to Hamlet about her love for him. In Branagh's version, Hamlet is very brutal with Ophelia. He drags her across the room and presses her face against the mirrors ... no one else could, but because she was so fragile that no man could ever be suitable enough for her. This scene was a rather romantic and yet meaningful scene and not violent like Branagh's. Thus, the nunnery scene in Zeffirelli's production was studded with media techniques to enhance its ...

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