Fortinbras

Kayelee Mathes Ms. Light English 4 15 February 2017 Inside His Mind “Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 2. 2. 119-122). This excerpt from the famous play was written in a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia. Even here, the audience can see Hamlet has yet to speak his feelings. At the start of the play, Hamlet shows more emotion. He normally speaks his mind in isolation. So whenever people find out…

I Family honor is an abstract idea involving a quality of worthiness and respect that affects a group of related people. Family honor can be defended by one or the group's members, however this leads to vengeful intentions. Revenge is the action of inflicting harm on someone for a wrongdoing suffered at someone else's hands. Revenge will lead to insanity. Insanity is a deranged state of the mind that usually occurs as a mental disorder. In play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the Prince of…

When Hamlet encounters a Captain of the Norwegian army, he inquires about the reason for the great military presence in the area. The captain explains to him that Prince Fortinbras ordered the mobilisation of the military to attack and capture a useless area of land that once belonged to Norway. In the soliloquy that follows, Hamlet displays his jealousy towards Fortinbas’ decisiveness, pondering about how one could be willing…

damsel, a very feminine character in literature that is unable to save herself, and thus, needs others to carry out plans to save them, or at least to carry on his supposed legacy in Hamlet’s case, as he asks Horatio to relay such information to Fortinbras. The only characters to die at their own hand, indirectly or not, in the play are Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet. Not surprisingly, these are the three characters…

Claudius commits one of the oldest sins when he poisons his own brother in his path to become king of Denmark. He ventures even farther into evil when he seduces the old queen, his sister-in-law and uses her as well on his path to kingship. Despite Claudius’ declaration of guilt, he admits that he is still benefiting from his sins, and chooses power and greed over salvation: “That cannot be; since I am still possess’d of those effects for which I did the murder, my crown, mine own ambition,…

uncle felt guilty. Soon after he leaves Claudius in prayer it is revealed that he was not praying successfully or sincerely by stating “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”(97-98). After seeing Fortinbras and his army, Hamlet wishes he had taken his revenge much sooner and feels guilty he has trouble completing it after his father was murdered in cold blood. With this, he vows to get the job done and that he will make it…

Outward Appearance: Hamlet- Even without Shakespeare providing an elaborate description of Hamlet's features, we can envision his pale face, wind-swept hair, intense, brooding eyes, dressed in black. I envisioned him as a scrawny yet weighted man whose hair is pitch black. On the contrary Danes have blonde hair (majority). The royal attire for a Danish Prince is to have a royal hat, laced shirt and pantaloons. Hamlet’s demeanour is that he is steady and patient, because he waits and…

during the play’s entirety. The main difference between Hamlet and Gertrude’s idleness is that Hamlet eventually saw the error of his ways. Hamlet’s final actions were to avenge his father’s murder by killing Claudius, to forgive Laertes, and to give Fortinbras his “dying voice” (5.2.393). Gertrude’s final words, on the other hand, were “I am poisoned!” (5.2.341). While well-intentioned, Gertrude, like Hamlet, rarely took…

all his sins. They think that the ghost is king Hamlet- APPEARANCE/REALITY The soldiers and the war that isn't happening yet. It is impending, and king Hamlet won the battle and killed the other king, and gained access to take the land, and king Fortinbras want to get revenge and he plans on taking the land back, because he doesn't like King Hamlet.- HONOR/REVENGE x Obviously we can see that Hamlet doesn't like Claudius, or anything he has to say just basically anything about him. This comes…

It is more than coincidental that Kubler Ross’s theory on the five stages of grief is apparent in the story “Hamlet”. In “Hamlet”, the protagonist, which is Hamlet, goes through the 5 stages of grief throughout the story. Kubler Ross constructed and used a theory based on how she believes the stages of the acceptance of death should go. “The 5 stages of grief and loss are: 1. Denial and isolation; 2. Anger; 3. Bargaining; 4. Depression; 5. Acceptance. People who are grieving do not necessarily…