Ghost Hunters

father’s death. The first occurs when his father’s ghost appears to him. It’s just after twelve at night, the fog is dense, and it’s freezing outside as he walks with Horatio and Marcellus. They had informed him that they have seen what they believe to be the ghost of his father, King Hamlet, the night before and beckoned him to go with them. As they wait for the apparition to appear, they hear trumpets and canon fire, signaling the ongoing…

Enger’s Peace Like A River tells a narrative through Reuben Land, whose perspective changes as he encounters several misfortunes. The Land family’s lives change drastically when Davy shoots Israel and Tommy, the town bullies, as an act of defense. Davy’s trial and prosecution result in his eventual escape, along with his attempts to evade capture. Throughout his journey, Davy Land makes substantial sacrifices before and after his crime in order to protect his family’s safety, ultimately escaping…

Desire Under the Elms and The Glass Menagerie In our lives, we are surrounded by moments of tragedy that drive our will to keep moving forward. Our life experiences can relate to the famous stories that playwrights have written throughout history. Playwrights are masters at combining theatre elements of tragedy, religion, violence, and numerous relative elements that the audience embrace faithfully. Today, Greek and Roman influence is the main topic since they have inspired the famous plays…

the theatre in his last and shortest play, When We Dead Awaken (WWDA), “a dramatic epilogue”, that was regarded as the autobiographical play in which Aronld Rubek, the artist and the sculptor, his young wife Maia, his former model Irene, and a bear-hunter, named Squire Ulfheim as the main characters in this three-act architecturally structured play concentrates…

The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

Imagine being plagued with internal conflicts, so strong that you no longer want to live, but your religious beliefs prevent you from doing so. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the main character is tormented throughout the play with inner conflicts of whether he should commit suicide or murder his uncle. Due to the internal conflicts, the reader can see that those conflicts influence how Hamlet acts (or doesn’t act) and how he feels, leaving a sense of excitement and suspense for the reader to…

The ghost gives Hamlet a reason to carry out revenge against Claudius. Previous to his disrespect towards his Claudius which can be seen in Act 1 scene 2; when hamlet states “ a little more than kin and less than kind”after his uncle labels him as his “nephew…

Is Hamlet Riding The Crazy Train? Hamlet went through a very dramatic transition in his life, his Dad was killed by his uncle, then his uncle married Hamlet's mom. Though it is very possible Hamlet is suffering some kind of mental disorder, I believe that it was all an act and he is perfectly sane. Hamlet tells Horatio that he is going to ‘feign madness’ and if Horatio notices any strange behavior from Hamlet, it is because he is putting on an act.[Act i, Scene v, lines 166-180]. Hamlet only…

his Uncle. An important quote to look at that illustrates the effect of this situation on Hamlet “How strange or odd some’er I bear myself (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on)” (1.5.190-192) this is after the ghost has appeared to hamlet reveling to him his father’s death wasn’t an accident thus Hamlet decides to fake being insane. In the end the Hamlet’s revenge is more justified because how much he lost and how greatly it affected…

To Act or Not To Act: Tragic Flaws in “Hamlet” “Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” (Shakespeare 3.1.83). This quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a starting point to show a main characters tragic flaws. For Hamlet, the main character in the play, he often procrastinates in completing tasks. Moreover, even once he completes an action he tends to overthink his decision. By allowing Hamlet to have destructive flaws, one being procrastination and the second being indecisiveness it…