Do not stand at my grave and weep

this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit” (2.2.511-512). He ponders how an actor can create such strong emotions that are fake and mean nothing toward the play they are in. The actor can weep tears on a cue and express themselves as if they are truly affected by the lines written for them. He is jealous of the actor’s ability to portray a fake character as if that it is their true being. Since Hamlet acts as if he has gone crazy,…

emotional appeal of the audience by showing his gratitude and love for his dead friend (3.2. 83). Antony continues to address the wrong that was done upon Caesar and he finishes a part with “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,/” showing his remorse, “And I must pause till it come back to me./” Antony begins to weep and pauses for a moment (3.2. 115, 116.) As he pauses in the middle of his words, a plebeian speaks up from the crowd, “Methinks there is much reason in his sayings./” as the…

As he becomes less connected with nature and the outside world, his own personal character develops a more reclusive attitude. “Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me extreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation” (35). Frankenstein strays from the natural authority of his life, and he suffers dearly because of it. His creation goes against natural law, and as he…

The cosmos can be understood if broken down into its most basic scientific components, atoms. The atomic vision of these two men had a little to do with experimentation, but more to do with observation. Atoms represented everything that was simple, indivisible, indestructible and infinite (the word atom literally means indivisibility). Epicurus held that the truest happiness comes from becoming as much like atoms…

Archbishop and fell down on her knees, the Archbishop saying very roughly to her, ‘Why do you weep so, woman?’ She answering said, ‘Sir, you shall wish some day that you had wept as sorely as I.’”, constitutes her personality (Kempe 163). The manner in which Kempe kneels to the Archbishop connotes the feeling that she has an immense amount of respect for religious leaders however, her ability to figuratively stand up to the priest using her words, shows that she is of higher authority and…

life, Ophelia does not have anyone to lean on for guidance due to her being sheltered. Since her brother, Laertes, was in France during the time Hamlet murders Polonius, Ophelia is then left without the security of having her family telling her what to do anymore. Ophelia has to live with the…

her father blinded himself; her brothers are fighting against each other in a war and now she is subsequently isolated. Here both a modern and a Greek audience would feel sympathetic towards the young woman. “Your life’s in ruins child- I wonder... do you pay for your father’s terrible ordeal.”(945-946) the chorus call Antigone’s ill-fated life as a product of her father’s terrible decisions and his tormented life. For an ancient audience one would perhaps feel sympathetic towards her calamity…

Seventeen: Freedom at Last Anna attempted a Foxtrot in her new baby blue shirt and white blouse with a ballerina butterfly brooch pinned to its collar and patent leather shoes. She dipped smoothly and spun around and surveyed her reflection in the mirror. She had not seen herself since Miss Muller's basement and the image that was reflected back made her gasp. She stared at her gaunt features and into her sunken dull blue eyes. Her knee-length pleated skirt loosely dangled from her emaciated…

The yelling and the screaming these imbeciles do in this damn place is just so agitating! It’s all because the pastor makes a reference to the bad in this world. To me, it’s just pointless. My grandma loves it though. She’s a southern woman with strong beliefs and seems to think God has something to do with everything. Oh yea, I almost forgot. This dreaded place I’m referring to is church. What really sets me off about church is that it’s basically just a big fake that makes you give the church…

dramatic it made the viewer want to know what was going to happen next and there were many more exciting things to come. For one when Gertrude drank the poison it was a slow death but in the play all Gertrude said was, “No, no! The drink, the drink!-O my dear Hamlet!-The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.” and the she died. (pg.140) Hamlet, Laertes, and Claudius died a slow death in the movie as well. Hamlet first kills Laertes by cutting him with the poisoned sword. It stops there in the play but…