Derek Jacobi

Most people live their lives based on assumptions made yet, we should be wiser and figure out the true intentions behind all these masks people wear. William Shakespeare explores this idea in Hamlet, a play about the son of the king of Denmark who was murdered by his own brother, Claudius. Claudius then married his brother's wife only a month after the murder and for this reason he’s not only the uncle but, also the stepfather of Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. Throughout the play, Hamlet will…

In the play Hamlet, there are three significant revenge plots that Shakespeare includes. Which subsequently all of them are keen to the plot and storyline. Shakespeare expresses this through the skillful use of diction and irony.Without hardship and determination these three vengeances would have never occurred. Before King Hamlet was murdered, he had killed the king that had once ruled Norway.”Young Fortinbras,Of unimproved mettle hot and full,Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there…

Feminism has gained a new definition a new understanding of female roles since the Elizabethan Era. Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is about a young prince, Hamlet, being visited by his father’s apparition urging him to avenge his death by murdering Prince Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius. All the while, Hamlet is enraged by his mother’s hasty marriage to Claudius and is showering his supposed love, Ophelia, with gifts and words of affection. Queen Gertrude and Ophelia are blindly…

Being lonely can lead to overthinking and negative thoughts. Hamlet is done with life and he wants to commit suicide and being betrayed so many times by his closest friends and his family members. Hamlet felt that he doesn't have anyone to talk to and open up to he thinks everyone is fake and no one is real. He also felt that he's not being loyal to his dad because he didn't do what he was asked. Also, his love for Ophelia is too much and when you see someone you love change on you you'll feel…

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to link William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet with the concept of metatheatre, is the play which is staged by young Hamlet to confront his uncle Claudius with the murder of the old king Hamlet. Nevertheless, even though nothing qualifies more as metatheatre than this particular scene, the play-within-a-play is not the only significant device of metatheatre in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are several more metatheatrical plots that can be detected in the…

Hamlet is a very smart man. He is not one to be taken as a fool. While Hamlet is planning vengeance on his uncle for the murder of his father, he had an idea to make people believe he was crazy even though he wasn’t. In 1.4 Hamlet comes up with an idea that is brilliant. While people are seeing him depressed and not himself, he decides to add some spice to the pot. After Hamlet is done meeting with his father’s spirit, he decides to act crazy. He is not insane, but he tells the guards that were…

Even the Stoutest Souls can be Broken: An Interpretation of Hamlet It is clear that William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, is meant to present perhaps the greatest and undeniable truth of mankind, even the best of us can fall into corruption. Hamlet is a vivid description of one’s descent into madness. It begins by detailing the seed of anyone’s separation from goodness or faith, the death of a beloved family member. From that point on the seed only grows within Hamlet from the number of events…

While growing up, sports have always been a big part of my life. At the age of only six years old, my parents first signed me up for coach pitch softball. Little did they know that I was going to fall in love with the game and that they were going to have to spend countless hours at softball fields during the spring each year watching me play. Being so young when I first started playing, winning and losing did not matter at all. As long as I got to throw, hit, and catch the ball, I was happy.…

opportunities for other women to do great things. Some other important people in this time were Al Gore and George Bush because of the close presidential race in the year of 2000. (“New Voices…” 1279-1466). An important person living during this era was Derek Jeter because he was a baseball…

Philosophers have continually debated over what defines an individual being, and what this means for the world in terms of ethics. I am going to discuss two basic categories of theories on personal identity – a reductionist view through the eyes of Derek Parfit, and a non-reductionist one, namely, the self-interest theory based on the assumption of a Cartesian Pure Ego. Theories of identity similar to the Cartesian pure ego have been an underlying assumption in many belief systems. Many…