... evidence against Claudius. So at this moment in the play Hamlet is being presented in two conflicting ways. There is Hamlet the revenger but also Hamlet, the thinker. It will be the conflict between these two roles that will be the heart of the play. This is a fascinating part of the play. Hamlet is now totally unpredictable which can be a source of comedy in scenes where he taunts and ridicules ... Polonius. However even in the antic disposition Shakespeare is still presenting an insight ... This line in the context of "the witching time of night" presents a link with evil and darknes...

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... insanity. This insanity does not truly exist, but is what Sir Toby and Maria force upon him. Being a wise man, Malvolio turns this scenario around to mean that the darkness is the madness that exists outside of his cell. In response to his imprisonment, Malvolio says, "I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though/Ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say there ... appears as a love stricken and joyful maiden at the close of the play. Being one of only a handful of characters that can receive as much love as they wish to give, Duke Orsino also makes the transition that many character...

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... hope thou wilt not keep him long, But send him back" (3.5.60-4). What she means by this quotation (on the last night her and Romeo spend together, as he is slipping into the darkness) is that she wants Fortune to be inconsistent like it has been before, so that Romeo's fate can change and ... he can come back to her. This does happen, as mentioned above, but when Romeo goes back to her, he thinks that she is dead and his overload of passion ... passion makes one do unsuspecting things, but it also shows that it is dangerous to act out in pride or rage. The sonnet form helps convey the ...

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... kindness" from Act I and had she not convinced his to murder the king none of the trouble they are encountering would have occurred. Earlier on in the play Lady Macbeth establishes herself as a very headstrong and determined character. She does this when she calls upon the spirits of darkness to rid her of her natural womanliness and to instead "make thick" her blood and to fill her "direst ... still cuts his lines into short phrses, again repeating the words "sleep" and "Amen". He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." an...

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