In Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s diction is very complex and sets the mood for the scene. Through the dialogue between Romeo and Juliet, the reader can conclude that they both love each other vigorously. Romeo describes Juliet with analogies that compare her to celestial objects. For him, she has “two of the fairest stars in all the heaven” as eyes (Shakespeare Line 17). The use of ‘fairest stars’ conveys the point that Juliet seems unique to Romeo.…
This is an image i found online and to be it seems as if Macbeth is holding or seeing the invisible dagger infront of him. His facial expression seems weariy to me in the image. This pictures was meant to depict ACT 2 scene 1. This the scene where macbeths paronia causes him to think and see things he shouldn't. I shows his mentally instability that has been caused by the evil thoughts he has been thinking recently about killing duncan.…
In Act 1 scene 1 in Macbeth, the scene introduces the main characters, which are the three witches. The witches are considering when to meet again. For example, they said, “When shall we three meet again/ In thunder, lightning, or in rain”(1.1.1-2). The setting of this scene is a dark and stormy night with loud thunder.…
Rewrite of Act 1, Scene 4 Scene opens in a large skating rink. Duncan enters with Lennox, Malcolm, Donalbain, and several servants. Loud music can be heard as they receive their skates from a man behind a counter. They all sit on thin benches to lace up their skates and begin discussing current events.…
A Friend: often defined as a person who is on good terms with another or someone that provides assistance to the person in question. A Friend is someone that is willing to help you at any given moment, a person that is with you through the best of times and the worst. A person that doesn’t turn their back when the odds aren’t in your favor. A person that advises you on how to better yourself and how to keep oneself sane in today's never-ending maze of decisions and dilemmas. In the case of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the seemingly never-ending grief that is brought upon him due to the assassination of his father brings him to realize the true value of his friends around him.…
In Act 4, Scene 4 of Hamlet, Hamlet is doubting his ability to come through with revenge. In the beginning of the soliloquy, he calls himself “a beast, no more”, rather than a man since all he does is sleep and eat (3). He does not understand how someone can think continually without translating that thought to action. He questions that if he really was a man why has he not taken the advantage to reason like all other men. Hamlet thinks that it could be his “bestial oblivion” of just eating and sleeping that leads to his procrastination(9).…
(Shakespeare, William 1) Who had recently been murdered. If the guards and everyone know that Hamlet has more friends such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern choose to call in Horatio instead. Horatio comes to see the ghost and does not believe in it at first, thinks its fake claiming “'tis but our fantasy” (Shakespeare, William 2 24-25) later comes to see that it is indeed there and is the old king of Denmark. Horatio was the first important person in Hamlet’s life to be informed of something so important and life changing. After Hamlets encounter with the ghost and in the longing of his father starts to become a little lunatic.…
Wolff wrote this scene not as a specific event, but as a scene that would occur every time he, Dwight, his mother and Pearl went to shooting competitions in other towns. His mother would do quite well, and Dwight would lose, blaming his losses on uncontrollable factors like the gun he was using. He felt intimidated by Toby’s mother and pulled into a tavern parking lot and went inside to drink, Toby’s mother followed later, and Toby and Pearl were left in the car. This isolation left Pearl and Toby in a moment where they could connect to each other, and no one else. No one else would understand the tension between parents and anxiety of waiting alone in the parking lot, scared that any minute a drunk “father” would be angered by the sound…
The second act of the play begins with Brutus pacing back and forth as he is unable to sleep because of his disagreeing thoughts about Caesar. He comes to realization that Caesar is becoming too powerful, to fast, and that he will need to kill him. To further this thought, Lucius, Brutus’s servant brings him a letter that was planted by Cassius that discusses the problem with Caesar and an idea to stop him. Shortly after Cassius and his conspirators arrive at Brutus’s home and try to convince him to join their plan. Brutus agrees that this is what is needed to be done and that they will kill Caesar.…
COMPARE AND CONTRAST HAMLET In many different ways, typically the story is much different than the movies that are based off of the stories. That being said, Hamlet is no exception to this theory. The movie starring Mel Gibson follows the story line pretty well for the most part. However there are some major changes to make the movie attract to more of a variety of audiences.…
The rest of the men are exchanging spurts of quiet small talk about the Kings mysterious behavior. Suddenly we are able to understand what is going on, Macbeth has been talking to what we can now confirm is a ghost. Certainly he has lost his mind, unable to comprehend what we have learned, all we do is stare at his pale white face now filled with fear from the hallucination he is speaking to. One of the guests at the table asks if he is alright and without an answer we are…
Horatio is the only other person who not only saw the ghost but, he knew what King Hamlet's Ghost told Hamlet. He also had the job of watching Claudius, while the play was going on, in order to see if he showed his guilt. Lastly, at the end of the play, Hamlet gives Horatio the task of telling everybody why Hamlet had feigned madness and the murders of "… thou so many princes at a shot". (Act 5, Scene II, Line 358) Hamlet could not do it himself because he died along with other important characters.…
Throughout Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet”, many of the characters question the Prince’s sanity. Yet it is clear that he is sane from he moment the play begins to the moment he dies but he does feign madness. At the beginning of the play, before Hamlet learns that his father was murdered rather than bitten by a snake, Hamlet is simply mourning the death of his father and the “hasty marriage” of his mother and Claudius. At this point hamlet shows signs of only sorrow and despair in his soliloquys, none of insanity. After some time passes Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father, the old King.…
In using this example, Hamlet contrasts the difference between his friends by emphasizing Horatio’s loyalty, and his trustworthiness. Worrying for his own sanity, Hamlet also calls into question the assertions of his father’s ghost, and concocts a scheme in order to determine their validity. Wishing for Horatio’s input and accompaniment as an accomplice, Hamlet, trusting him, begins to explains the plan. Shakespeare uses allusion again in the passage, this time to remind Horatio of the sighting of King Hamlet’s ghostly apparition: “If his occulted guilt / Do not itself unkennel in one speech / It is a damned ghost that we have seen.”…
Often, a tragic hero’s fall from grace is triggered by one decision that sends them tumbling down to their inevitable fate. One choice leans to another and before long, it is too late to turn back. In the tragic play, Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth starts as an honorable hero who slowly transforms into a ruthless villain as he fights for a secure position as King. When comparing Macbeth 's initial actions and motives to some of his last, the transformation is evident. Macbeth’s soliloquies provide insight into his thought processes behind each murder he commits.…