Hamlet Character Analysis Essay

Is it possible to love someone with all the flaws they have? Are flaws so important that it can enable someone to not love someone? Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare illustrates that everyone has flaws but one can still love them with all their flaws. It is possible to be able to love someone because of their flaws. The “mistress” is “nothing” “compare[d]” to the “sun”. The mistress is nothing but a flicker of a candle to the bright light of the sun. There are things that are brighter and…

In the play No Exit Estelle changes greatly as to how she portrays herself. Toward the beginning of the play Estelle is introduced as a beautiful upper class woman who claims to have no idea why she is there. When Garcin attempts to take off his jacket she tries to act as if she is uncomfortable around men. As the play progresses we learn more and more about Estelle's past loves. She married herself off to a rich much older man to provide for her and her brother. She was happily married for…

There was many types of deaths in the play Hamlet. But in act four and five there was even more and the worst ones yet. Shakespeare is very interesting guy. He makes the death of the characters very unique and meaningful. There is so many deaths that happen, but there’s three major ones that cause things to go bad in the story cause their deaths. There is Ophelia, Polonius and Hamlet (young). First of all, Ophelia's death is related to everything and everyone. She feels all alone and feels like…

Mental health illnesses in most television shows portray the character with the illness in a negative light such as a murder, or a violent member of society. A popular television series called Criminal Minds represents a multitude of mental health illnesses, especially personality disorders, in which most of the characters are murderers or suspects suffering from dissociative identity disorder or antisocial personality disorder, formally known as psychopathic disorder. One episode titled, “All…

Hamlet to Ophelia – an everlasting love While the few of the royal family had still not understood Hamlet’s persistence of continued mourning and frustration for his father’s death, “with its obsession with damaged psychology” (Davies). Hamlet could not resist remembering the legacy of the former king with not also to count for his mother’s marriage with his uncle Claudius. With Hamlet feeling very distraught and having to overcome his troubles with his family to the point of questioning his…

Ophelia’s relationship to Hamlet In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, despite the fact that Hamlet lied and used Ophelia for the good of himself, he truly was in love with her. Throughout the play we notice a dramatic change from beginning to end, in regards to Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia. In the beginning of the play we see Hamlet having feelings for Ophelia, but then we see him talk down to Ophelia and start to deny his feelings towards her. We see Hamlet writing love letters to Ophelia, in the…

In the tragedy of “Macbeth”, Shakespeare explores and challenges the idea of traditional gender roles where the female characters are seen with the strong masculine traits, whilst the men are seen to have more of the feminine traits. One of society's typical gender norms is that men are essentially the strength of the family, whilst the women are more of the caring role and often times labelled as emotional and inferior. Within the first few acts of the play, Lady Macbeth is introduced and…

The Metamorphosis - Who is guilty for Gregor’s death? Is it his mother, father, sister of even Gregor himself? At the end of the short story, The Metamorphosis, Gregor, who has become a bug, dies. There are various factors affecting this event. Gregor has at first place turned into a bug because of the way he has been treated by others. Yet Gregor may as well be guilty for his own death for acting the way he did throughout the story. Gregor’s mother seems to care for his son, but after…

She was a pretty blonde with a petite body and wore the most beautiful dresses until she came to war. When analyzing “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried using the gender lens, the author reinforces the female and male stereotypes and also challenges female and male stereotypes. The author reinforces female stereotypes throughout this chapter. One example, when Mary Anne arrives to Vietnam for the first time and the men see her for the first time,…

When Harry is just a baby, Lord Voldemort (the most evil dark wizard in history) kills Harry's parents (Lily and James) but for some reason, he can't kill little baby Harry. After that day Lord Voldemort mysteriously disappears. The Wizarding World begins to celebrate that night because He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is gone and baby Harry becomes a hero "The Boy Who Lived". But also Harry becomes an orphan. Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Hagrid give Harry to Dursleys (his Muggle uncle…