Characters in Hamlet

reading is a rare pleasure. If written well, a story captures a person’s mind and imagination. Every character, place, and adventure is pictured, making it feel as if the reader lived it with a character. After the success of a novel in bookstores, many novels transform from pages in a book to actors on the silver screen. Often, the portrayal of the movie differs greatly from the ideas of the characters and adventures readers pictured in their head. However, in William Goldman’s The Princess…

Often times, authors use poems to demonstrate a universal theme. Therefore, power can greatly influence the way a person behaves, the way they understand things, or how they interact with the people around them. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Rothke describes a father and son relationship, and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare describes the true beauty of his mistress that others may not understand. Therefore, both poets use diction to convey the complexities of power and their effect on the…

One day they decide to go to a cat house, Lennie, wanting to get his hands on anything that was soft tries grabbing the woman's dress and are ran out of town. Fortunately they make it to this big Ranch, and that is where our story begins. The main character (George) is faced with the hardest decisions of his life, murdering his best friend (Lennie) not only for…

A quote that stood out to me while reading Of Mice and Men is found page 74. It states, “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.” (John Steinbeck, 74) This comment struck close to home for me, challenging my religion, and things that I hold dear to me. Upon thinking more about the statement I figured out that it isn’t about faith at all, Mr. Steinbeck wanted to connect to something, that people dedicate their whole lives to, or believe in full-heartedly.…

word that could be interpreted in many different ways for different people. Oedipus Rex is an example of this situation for several reasons. Oedipus Rex was a very special and different character since he was responsible for deciding his own justice. In the play “Oedipus King” Oedipus Rex, the main character, is the king of the city of Thebes. As the king has, his responsibilities are immense since he doesn’t worry for his personal problems, but he also worries for the problems of every…

Insanity and unhappiness lead to unfulfilling lives. From the view of Fromm, he tried to judge the insanity of society by different source of fact and he interpreted insanity on the basis of ‘pathology of normalcy’ (Fromm, 1991: p.6). Looking at alcoholism, suicide and murder rates, modern society has gone insane, related to “pathology of normalcy’ (Mathews, 2015) Mental stability can be roughly indicated by the destructive acts of people. Making reference from the research data of World…

In Voltaire’s novel Candide, the main character Candide runs into an old woman who tells her story on her hardships. “I would never even have spoken to you if my misfortunes, had you not piqued me a little, and if it were not customary to tell stories on board a ship in order to pass away the time.” (29) This statement is said by the old woman, Cunegonde’s servant. This is an important statement because she stands for realism and goes against Pangloss’s statement that we live in “the best of all…

Throughout “The Pardoner’s Tale,” many archetypal elements, such as ‘pairs of three, a test of morals, a mysterious guide, and a just ending’ characterize the exemplum. In regards to these elements, a key character in this tale is the old man, who clearly acts as “the mysterious guide” and leads the three rioters to their unforeseen death, adding to the allegory. In fact, the true identity of this old man is often debated. Accordingly, some readers may assume that the old man is a spy for Death,…

more possibilities, while force is strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement. Throughout the novels “Night” by Elie Wiesel and “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse, there are many differences and similarities in literary devices, character paths, symbolism and imagery. Things like freedom v.s. captivity and choice v.s. force are major differences in the two texts. Throughout my essay you will see what happens when one boy has his faith taken away from him and the other gives it…

When reading through the Brothers Karamazov, I have found that each of Fyodor's three legitimate sons reminds me in different ways of many of the voices from the great conversation. Dmitri: Plato's Republic (the three aspects of the soul); Aristotle's Ethics (virtue and vice); Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (patricide); Euripides’ The Bacchae (the table and the bed). Ivan: Plato's Republic (the three aspects of the soul); Aristotle's Ethics (virtue and vice); Aristophanes’ Birds (longing for a…