Ghost hunting

name Marcellus and Bernardo have been talking about the mysterious ghost that has been coming around the kingdom at night, who looks very similar to King Hamlet, who’s deceased. Horatio, the third guard, finally witnesses the suspicious ghost after not believing the other men and starts to question why the ghost is appearing. Marcellus and Bernardo persuade Horatio to approach the ghost, and without hesitation he does, only for the ghost to disappear after Horatio’s threats. While talking,…

Good and Evil are difficult terms to define since they are such broad terms, they cannot be defined as something that is cut and dry. This is because both are needed to appreciate the other. But for appearance sake, ‘good’ can be defined as “a lack of self-centeredness…the ability to [feel empathy towards] other people…feel compassion for them and to put their needs before [their] own” (Taylor). While ‘evil’ can be defined as “people…who are unable [or unwilling] to empathize with others……

Megan, First of all, I like the title of your post. I completely agree with you that King Lear is a prime example of a metaphorically blind character in the play. Lear is deceived by his two eldest daughters in 1.1, though his good, trusted advisor tries to get him to “See better, Lear, and let me still remain / the true blank of thine eye” (162-163). Lear’s ‘blindness’ is the prime cause of his bad decision to relinquish control over his kingdom. If Lear would have only listened to Kent,…

multiple times. The first betrayal is when his father is poisoned mercilessly from the hand of his Uncle Claudius. Hamlet’s uncle had slipped a drop of poison into the king’s ear while he was resting. Hamlet only came to this realization after the ghost of his father appeared to him, explaining the truth. From the death of Hamlet’s father, Hamlet’s fortune seems to keep spiraling downward. His one true love, Ophelia cannot be with him…

truth being told to the audience (Dictionary). This literary device is present in Act I Scene V, when the ghost of Hamlet’s visits Hamlet and informs him how he had actually died. During this scene, Hamlet follows the ghost that has been roaming around the castle and throughout their encounter, the ghost admits that he is the spirit of his father and came back to bring a message. The ghost wanted to inform Hamlet that Claudius was the one who murdered him and poisoned him while he was sleeping.…

Women of high power, especially the queen, are often a role model for all women in the nation, especially the younger ones. She must live by a code different than most women; she has major expectations to uphold. She is seen as proper, pure, and powerful. She is expected to act like a lady and dress properly. She should be fashionable but her clothing should be modest and not show off too much skin, which is nearly contradictory today. Views on royal women can be very conflicting. She should not…

Think about the situation from Hamlet’s eyes you just returned home from college only to find out your father has died. Soon after his ghost appears from out of nowhere to inform you that he did not die a natural death. No he in fact was assassination by your uncle Claudius in order to gain control of the throne. And the vary same man is going to bed joyfully every night with your unknowing…

stories, one could say that both of the characters possibly have come to that conclusion. On Ichabod trip home, he seems to mistaken many things for the headless horseman and cannot stop looking at the darkness thinking it is him. All this talk about ghost stories caused Ichabod to go mad and think the myth of the story was true. Not only did Ichabod go crazy, but Althorpe as well. Althorpe wanted Constantia to fall in love with him, but her father got a message saying they must return home…

completely different. Several scholarly articles and parts from Hamlet show that this is a fact. In all three versions of Hamlet there are scenes that prove of Hamlet’s anger. Hamlet is upset about his father’s death, he’s in shock that he saw his father’s ghost or spirit, his mother moving on to his uncle, his friends spying…

Mankind for all intents and purposes has been fascinated by the concept of Destiny and particularly free will for centuries, or so they definitely thought. The theme for the most part was incorporated into art and culture since the kind of early ages, which mostly is fairly significant. At the center of every very great tragedy laid the struggle between the inclination to generally welcome fate absolutely and the particularly natural desire to control destiny, and Shakespeare particularly is no…