Ghost story

The one thing for certain is this is a tale of binary oppositions, death and life. Life is seen in the defiant Prospero and his guests whom attempt to defy death’s wishes. The concepts of life and death are interrelated and connected in all aspects; it is unfeasible to have one exclusive of the other. The connotations behind these binaries are continuously deferring meaning to one another. Without life there is no death, and without death there is no life. The différance is cyclical in this case…

The play by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, is a famous play from the Renaissance time period. Hamlet follows the story of the prince Hamlet, seeking to avenge the recently murdered king, his father. Throughout the course of this play, Ophelia, who has a romantic interest in Hamlet, is driven to insanity, and eventually, to suicide. Hamlet pushes Ophelia to insanity, and then suicide, through his cruel statements towards Ophelia and the murdering of Ophelia’s father. In Act IV, scene 7, Claudius,…

AP book report #3: Candide- Voltaire: The adventures of Candide: A story of death, Love, and Adventure Story #1: summary plot Westphalia News Brave Man travels World to be united with his love Candide, a boy who lives in the castle of Westphalia, caught kissing Cunegonde, was kicked out of his only home. Thus starting his adventure, his will to find his lover gets Candide into may different troubles around the world. Finding his admirable tutor Pangloss, who tells Candide that the royal…

Oedipus’s search for the actual culprit of Laius's death illustrates a consistent theme of blindness throughout the play. In the play, clear vision symbolizes a person with vast amounts of knowledge and the ability to be able to control their own destiny. Through the knowledge of prophecy from the oracle, many characters are able to use these visions to prevent possible misfortunes and bad futures. However, this gift of sight also causes them to be blinded to their present situation. The…

In his 1387 anthology, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer tells the story of thirty-one people embarking on a pilgrimage from London to the shrine of St. Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. Along the way, the thirty pilgrims, six of whom have taken religious vows, participate in a story-telling contest. Each person will tell two stories on the way down and two stories on the return trip. Chaucer repeatedly calls into question the integrity of the religious characters, indicating he believes the…

Throughout Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet had motive to avenge his father’s death and kill Claudius. Gaining an abundance of proof that Claudius was indeed the culprit who killed his father, he did not take action against him right away. His tragic flaw was what held him back: his overthinking ultimately killed him in the end. Hamlet’s failure to act right away aligns with the central ideas action vs. inaction and mortality. His internal conflicts further his realization with his own…

When Hamlet exclaims that “The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King,” Shakespeare suggests that life is like a play, full of actors, and expects the audience to identify their morals by watching the scene unfold (2.2.633-34). Throughout the tragedy, characters like Claudius, Hamlet and Ophelia are forced to hide their true intentions and establish a new persona for themselves, whether as a worthy King, a mad Prince or a secure woman. Although the new identities help…

For this play the play was screened in a movie theater type setting, however the play was performed on a proscenium in London. While the proscenium was perfect for the play, the theatre setting was less than ideal for watching the play. During major scenes the camera only focused in on one aspect of the stage, not fully revealing all that was happening. The play kept true to the old English roots, but it was modernized to the 1920s style. In the beginning we see Hamlet sitting alone with a…

because he and Bernardo had seen a supernatural figure that appeared to be the ghost of the Old King Hamlet. Bernardo retells the encounters with the ghost to the famous scholar Horatio and other Marcellus. Horatio claimed that the ghost simply just fantasy and will not let belief take hold of him. Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo decided to encounter with the ghost again. When the ghost appeared, Horatio confirmed that the ghost has appeared like the Old King Hamlet. Horatio described that it…

Semester 1 Final, Question #51 Hamlet was a great story/play from beginning to end but an event that stood out the most to me and that i found most interesting was the death of Polonius. I found this particular event stood out to me because of how the event took place. How Gertrude believed that Hamlet would kill him and how they began to immediately began to argue as she entered the room also how Hamlet believed that the “rat” in the room behind the arras was Claudius, it’s all very…