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    false actions. Revenge and violence is a common theme in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet all three sons: Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras seek to avenge after the death of their fathers. First, Hamlet decides to take revenge on Claudius after discovering his father’s death from his father’s ghost. It all starts…

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    shoes, taking a quick nap in the snow and not waking up. Only a small fraction of mortifying events during the Holocaust, that a young Jewish teenager experienced. Night is a book by Elie Wiesel where he describes his terrifying experiences with his father in Nazi concentration camps. Before the Holocaust began, Eliezer and his family lived in Sighet, Transylvania. There Eliezer’s parents ran a store; in which his older sisters helped out in. Eliezer was studying the Cabbala and learning more…

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    2013, my brother lost his father to a tragic death. His father came home that weekend to visit him, and they spent the whole day together. After he left from visiting with my brother, later that night he went to a party. When the party was over, two men that he knew asked him to give them a ride home. As soon as they arrived in town, the two men took him to a back road, robbed, and killed him. They burned his car trying to hide the evidence, but they were not successful. No one knew that my…

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    Shakespeare’s Hamlet, addresses several psychological and sociological issues associated with the death of a loved one. Understanding the psychological effects of losing a loved one can assist in a deeper analytical understanding of why Hamlet behaves the way he does. He faces the death of his dear father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, and throughout the play, the psychological effects of Hamlet losing his beloved father can be diagnosed as depression. Losing a loved one is always difficult and…

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    acted very different upon hearing of his father’s death, as he acted more depressed and clads himself in all black…

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    center of the story following the death of his father, the king of Denmark, whom Hamlet finds out is murder by his uncle, Claudius. He also married the Gertrude, the queen, Hamlet 's mother. And takes over the throne, as the new ruler of Denmark. Hamlet has deal with several emotions which ended up making him mad. He wanted to avenge his father but whenever he got the opportunity hesitated. And throughout the play makes irrational decisions that finally lead to his death. Hamlet 's madness was…

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    and the death of Laertes. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the role of Laertes is to bring out the cruel and unforgiving nature of Hamlet by being Hamlet’s foil. When the play begins, the audience learns that the old king of Denmark has been murdered by his brother, Claudius, who is now ruling over Denmark. Ever since the death of the old king, Hamlet, the son of the old king, has been very unhappy due to the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother. As Hamlet is mourning the death of his…

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    Ophelia and Laertes take once they experience a murder similar to Hamlet 's. Ophelia and Hamlet experience the same feelings of grief and despair towards their fathers. After the death of Polonius, Ophelia becomes robbed of her sanity. As Claudius explains, “... Oh, this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father 's death, and now behold!...”(Shakespeare IV, v, 73-74). He implies that Ophelia’s insanity…

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    their audience through universal ideas of death and loss and the consolation brought by childhood memories. Gwen Harwood’s Father and Child and focuses on a recollection of childhood memories that deeply impacted her perspective on mortality and her relationship with her father. The mirroring structure of the Father and Child depicts a complete role reversal between the persona and her father, showing a switch in comforting each other in the face of death. Part two, Nightfall, opens with a…

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    at times when we think too much of when we will die and we start imagining ourselves as our younger selves or as another person, in which White illustrates as he recalls memories of him and his father on the same lake he has taken his son. In the sense of duality, we come to realize how close we are to death as we mature into the terminable journey of life. White comes upon this realization as he notices qualities of…

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